An expert screen design and evaluation assistant that uses knowledge-based backtracking

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 293-304

  Ngo, David Chek Ling ^a,b   Law, Boon Leong ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b NONE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Automatic layout; Design metrics; Propose and revise

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DESIGN METRICS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0037446711     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-5849(02)00189-1     Document Type: Article

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