On comparing bills of materials: A similarity/distance measure for unordered trees

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 249-260

  Romanowski, Carol J ^a   Nagi, Rakesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bills of material (BOMs); Similarity measure; Symmetric difference; Unordered trees

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSTS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PATTERN MATCHING; POLYNOMIALS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; THEOREM PROVING;

BILLS-OF-MATERIAL (BOM); SIMILARITY MEASURE; SYMMETRIC DIFFERENCE; UNORDERED TREES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 14644437050     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.843395     Document Type: Article

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