Modularity in design of products and systems

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

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 66-77

  Huang, Chun Che ^b   Kusiak, Andrew ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Design automation; Modeling; Modular products and systems; Product development

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PRODUCT DESIGN; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MODULARITY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031672597     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.650323     Document Type: Article

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