A rule-based system for fixture design

Scientific Research and Essays

Volumn 6, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 5787-5802

  Vukelic, Djordje ^a   Tadic, Branko ^b   Luzanin, Ognjan ^a   Budak, Igor ^a   Krizan, Peter ^c   Hodolic, Janko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b Faculty of Mechanical Engineering   (Slovakia)

^c SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Data base; Knowledge base; Machining fixture; Rule based systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 81755176142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19922248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/SRE11.1138     Document Type: Article

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