CREAMS: a customer requirements elicitation and management system for product conceptualisation

International Journal of Product Development

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 303-320

  Yan, Wei ^a   Chen, Chun Hsien ^b   Khoo, Li Pheng ^b  

^a SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

design decision making; intelligent agent; product conceptualisation; radial basis function neural network; relational database; web based survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 62549119750     PISSN: 14779056     EISSN: 17418178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPD.2005.008004     Document Type: Article

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