An approach for the intelligent assessment of future technology portfolios

40th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Kirby, Michelle R ^a   Mavris, Dimitri N ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

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