Associations in a unified feature modeling scheme

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 114-126

  Chen, G ^a   Ma, Y S ^a   Thimm, G ^a   Tang, S H ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Association mechanism; Information consistency; Product life cycle; Unified feature modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ASSOCIATION MECHANISM; INFORMATION CONSISTENCY; PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE; UNIFIED FEATURE MODELING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33745877186     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2194910     Document Type: Article

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