Soliciting customer requirements for product redesign based on picture sorts and ART2 neural network

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 194-204

  Shieh, Meng Dar ^a   Yan, Wei ^b   Chen, Chun Hsien ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

ART2 neural network; Customer requirements acquisition; Customer requirements evaluation; Picture sorts; Product redesign

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

ART2 NEURAL NETWORK; CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS ACQUISITION; CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS EVALUATION; PICTURE SORTS; PRODUCT REDESIGN;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 34249020711     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.08.036     Document Type: Article

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