Educating the Guess: Strategies, Concepts and Tools for the Fuzzy Front End of Product Development

Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 261-273

  Jetter, Antonie J M ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUZZY CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS (FCM); FUZZY FRONT END (FFE);

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 1442327919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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