Knowledge decomposition for a product design blackboard expert system

Artificial Intelligence in Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-82

  Chen, Chun Hsien ^a   Occena L G ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PRODUCT DESIGN;

KNOWLEDGE DECOMPOSITION;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033896704     PISSN: 09541810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-1810(99)00028-X     Document Type: Article

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