Reasoning about function and its applications to engineering

Artificial Intelligence in Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 331-336

  Chittaro, Luca ^a   Kumar, Amruth N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional representation; Reasoning about function

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

FUNCTIONAL REPRESENTATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032188687     PISSN: 09541810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-1810(97)10008-5     Document Type: Article

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