A two-stage fuzzy approach to feature-based design retrieval

Computers in Industry

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 493-505

  Tsai, Chieh Yuan ^a   Chang, C Alec ^b  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Design retrieval; Feature based design; Fuzzy ART network; Fuzzy searching

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SET THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DESIGN RETRIEVAL; FEATURE-BASED DESIGN; FUZZY ART NETWORK; FUZZY SEARCHING;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 18844418226     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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