A layout technique for class diagrams to be used in product configuration projects

Computers in Industry

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 409-418

  Haug, Anders ^a,b   Hvam, Lars ^a,b   Mortensen, Niels Henrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Class diagrams; Knowledge engineering; Object oriented modelling; Product configuration

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; ANALYSIS MODELS; CLASS DIAGRAMS; DESIGN MODELS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; LEAD TIME; MODELLING LANGUAGE; PRODUCT CONFIGURATION; PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR; PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE; PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS; PRODUCT VARIANTS; UTILITY ANALYSIS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

DESIGN; GRAPHIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77953291090     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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