Functional reasoning in design

IEEE Expert-Intelligent Systems and their Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 42-48

  Umeda, Yosushi ^a   Tomiyama, Tetsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN;

BOND GRAPH MODEL; FUNCTIONAL REASONING;

COMPUTER AIDED LOGIC DESIGN;

EID: 0031100864     PISSN: 08859000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/64.585103     Document Type: Article

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