Usability ranking of intercity bus passenger seats using fuzzy axiomatic design theory

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4101 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 141-148

  Eraslan, Ergun ^a   Akay, Diyar ^b   Kurt, Mustafa ^b  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conformance Testing; Cooperative Engineering; Fuzzy Axiomatic Design; Usability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENGINEERS; LINGUISTICS; PASSENGER CARS; SEATS;

CONFORMANCE TESTING; COOPERATIVE ENGINEERING; FUZZY AXIOMATIC DESIGN; USABILITY;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 33749598766     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11863649_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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