Towards an 'ideal' approach for concept generation

Design Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 341-355

  Liu, Y C ^a   Bligh, T ^a   Chakrabarti, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Computer supported design; Conceptual design; Design methodology; Ideal design approach; Multiple convergence divergence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0037411138     PISSN: 0142694X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-694X(03)00003-6     Document Type: Article

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