What is "complexity"?

Proceedings ICED 05, the 15th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn DS 35, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Weber, Christian ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complexity; Complexity management

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052157551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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