Models for estimating design effort and time

Design Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 141-155

  Bashir, Hamdi A ^a   Thomson, Vince ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

DESIGN MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT FUNCTIONAL DECOMPOSITION;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 0035284272     PISSN: 0142694X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-694X(00)00014-4     Document Type: Article

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