The design process: Properties, paradigms, and structure

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 146-166

  Braha, Dan ^a   Maimon, Oded ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEM THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

DESIGN PROCESS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031103248     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.554679     Document Type: Article

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