Concept formation from design cases: Why reusing experience and why not

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 7-8, 1998, Pages 437-448

  Faro, Alberto ^a   Giordano, Daniela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concept formation; Design support; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

CONCEPT FORMATION;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032292932     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-7051(98)00077-X     Document Type: Article

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