DSTM: A framework to operationalise and refine a problem solving method modeled in terms of tasks and methods

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 105-120

  Trichet, Francky ^a   Tchounikine, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Paper based model; Problem solving method; Task Method paradigm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008228104     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(98)00065-7     Document Type: Article

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