A prototype of a documentation system that supports the development and maintenance of product configuration systems

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1048-1055

  Haug, Anders ^a   Degn, Anders ^a   Poulsen, Bjarne ^a   Hvam, Lars ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Class diagrams; CRC cards; Documentation of product models; Knowledge engineering; Product configuration; Product variant master

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERRORS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

CLASS DIAGRAMS; DOCUMENTATION OF PRODUCT MODELS; DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM; PRODUCT CONFIGURATION SYSTEMS (PCSS); PRODUCT VARIANT MASTER;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 34248360337     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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