Designing IC structures by variety engineering

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 518-523

  Rosenkranz, Christoph ^a   Holten, Roland ^a   Laumann, Marcus ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Germany GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complexity; Coordination; Information and communication channels; Organizational structure; Value creation network; Variety engineering; Viable system model

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONTROL THEORY; MODEL STRUCTURES; RESEARCH; SUPPLY CHAINS;

COMPLEXITY; COORDINATION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; VALUE CREATION NETWORK; VARIETY ENGINEERING; VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 56749184897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1363686.1363816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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