The evolution of a decision support architecture for polymer composites design

IEEE Expert-Intelligent Systems and their Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 77-83

  Lenz, Timothy J ^a,b   McDowell, James K ^a,b   Hawley, Martin C ^a,b   Kamel, Ahmed ^a   Sticklen, Jon ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DECISION MAKING; FABRICATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PERFORMANCE; POLYMERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THERMOPLASTICS;

DECISION SUPPORT ARCHITECTURE; FUNCTIONAL REASONER; MATERIAL DESIGN; POLYMER COMPOSITES DESIGN; ROUTINE DESIGN;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030270846     PISSN: 08859000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/64.539020     Document Type: Article

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