Visual knowledge specification for conceptual design: Definition and tool support

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-83

  Kraft, Bodo ^a   Nagl, Manfred ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Architectural design; Conceptual design; Graph transformation; Knowledge specification; Visual language

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; GRAPH TRANSFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE SPECIFICATION; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 33846850458     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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