Relative performances of similarity and dissimilarity measures

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 769-807

  Sarker, Bhaba R ^a   Saiful Islam, Khan M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

SIMILARITY-DISSIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0033297327     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-8352(00)00011-5     Document Type: Article

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