Dependency Analysis in Constraint Negotiation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 1301-1313

  Kusiak, Andrew ^a   Wang, Juite ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; FUZZY SETS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONSTRAINT NEGOTIATION; DEPENDENCY ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING DESIGN;

DESIGN;

EID: 0029379162     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/21.400508     Document Type: Article

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