An intelligent expert systems' approach to layout decision analysis and design under uncertainty

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 97, Issue , 2008, Pages 321-364

  Ahmad, Abdul Rahim ^a   Basir, Otman ^a   Hassanein, Khaled ^b   Azam, Shahid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

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EID: 40449104055     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76829-6_12     Document Type: Article

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