A fuzzy CBR technique for generating product ideas

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 530-540

  Wu, Muh Cherng ^a   Lo, Ying Fu ^a   Hsu, Shang Hwa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Fuzzy AHP; Fuzzy CBR; New product development

Indexed keywords

CASE BASED REASONING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RECYCLING;

CASE-BASED REASONING; FUZZY AHP; FUZZY CBR; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34248523996     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.09.018     Document Type: Article

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