A framework for product data

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 825-838

  McKay, Alison ^a   Bloor, M Susan ^a   De Pennington, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Application; Architecture; Computer aided engineering; Framework; Integration; Product data model; Product model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ENGINEERING INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DATA MODEL;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030260007     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.542033     Document Type: Article

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