Immunity as a design decision making paradigm for complex systems: A robustness approach

Cybernetics and Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 759-780

  Efatmaneshnik, Mahmoud ^a   Reidsema, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS; DATA VARIABILITY; FUZZY APPROACH; ROBUSTNESS INDEX; TOLERANCE CONTROL;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 36248932057     PISSN: 01969722     EISSN: 10876553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01969720701601056     Document Type: Article

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