Systematic approaches to understanding and evaluating design trade-offs

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1253-1271

  Bate, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMMERCE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PROCESS DESIGN;

AS SYSTEMS; CASE STUDIES; CRITICAL SYSTEMS; DESIGN ERRORS; DESIGN PROCESSES; DESIGN TRADE-OFFS; HEURISTIC SEARCH; INDIVIDUAL VALUES; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES; TASK ALLOCATION; TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 50049128687     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.10.032     Document Type: Article

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