Understanding the knowledge needs of designers during design process in industry

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 0110041-0110049

  Vijaykumar, Gokula ^a   Chakrabarti, Amaresh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; TAXONOMIES;

DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES; GENERIC FORM; QUESTIONS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 44449150650     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2840776     Document Type: Article

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