A design data model to support rationale capture and functional synthesis

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 775-784

  Aurisicchio, Marco ^a   Bracewell, Rob H ^a   Wallace, Ken M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design rationale; Design synthesis; Function means tree; Knowledge representation

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

DESIGN RATIONALE; DESIGN SYNTHESIS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 1842658866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2003/dtm-48672     Document Type: Conference Paper

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