Importance of visualization in decision making process in engineering design

Proceedings of the 2005 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 661-672

  Rafiq, Yaqub ^a   Packham, Ian ^b   Beck, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Lightwave Technologies Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Conceptual Design; Decision Support; Evolutionary Computation; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; VISUALIZATION;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DESIGNS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

EID: 27144538267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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