Complexity of planning in design

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2001, Pages 147-154

  Earl, Christopher F ^a   Eckert, Claudia M ^b   Johnson, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; Connectivity; Planning; Similarity

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MANUFACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL; PLANNING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCTIVITY; COMPLEX NETWORKS;

CONNECTIVITY; MULTIDIMENSIONAL NETWORK; PLANNING DESIGN; SIMILARITY;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCT DESIGN;

DESIGN KNOWLEDGE; DESIGN PLANNING; LAYERED CLASSIFICATIONS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL NETWORKS; PLANNING DESIGNS; POTENTIAL SYNERGIES; STRUCTURAL MODELING;

EID: 0242668822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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