Functional modeling: Toward a common language for design and reverse engineering

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 645-656

  Verma, Manish ^a   Wood, William H ^a  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER AIDED TOOLS; FUNCTION BASED DESIGN;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 1842708990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2003/dtm-48660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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