A data mining approach to forming generic bills of materials in support of variant design activities

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 316-328

  Romanowski, Carol J ^a   Nagi, Rakesh ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Mining; Generic Bills of Material (GBOM); Tree Mining; Variant Design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; GENERIC BILLS OF MATERIAL (GBOM); TREE MINING; VARIANT DESIGN;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; QUERY LANGUAGES; XML;

DATA MINING;

EID: 13444253999     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1812556     Document Type: Article

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