A multicriteria system-based method for simulation-driven design synthesis

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bolognini, Franceses ^a   Vale, Christopher W ^a   Shea, Kristina ^b   Seshia, Ashwin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION;

CONNECTED NODE SYSTEM (CNS); DESIGN SYNTHESIS; SEARCH ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 33751350015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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