The introduction of a design heuristics extraction method

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 3-19

  Matthews, P C ^a   Blessing, L T M ^b   Wallace, K M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conceptual design; Data mining; Design heuristics; Knowledge extraction; Self organizing maps

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MAPPING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; DESIGN HEURISTICS; KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 1642361510     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-0346(02)00002-2     Document Type: Article

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