An efficient and flexible web services-based multidisciplinary design optimisation framework for complex engineering systems

Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 345-371

  Li, Liansheng ^a   Liu, Jihong ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

agent; data integration and sharing; evidence theory; multidisciplinary design optimisation; ontology; web services; workflow

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX ENGINEERING SYSTEM; DATA INTEGRATION; DATA SHARING; DESIGN DATA; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; EVIDENCE THEORIES; HETEROGENEOUS PLATFORMS; INTEGRATED PRODUCTS; LOGICAL REASONING; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DESIGNS; MULTI-HIERARCHICAL; MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES; MULTIPLE PROCESS; MULTIPLE SOURCE; ONTOLOGY-BASED; OPTIMISATIONS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; QUALITY OF PRODUCT; SUPERSONIC BUSINESS JETS; UNCERTAINTY REASONING; WEB ENVIRONMENT; WORKFLOW;

AGENTS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; ONTOLOGY; PRODUCT DESIGN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEBSITES;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 84860901794     PISSN: 17517575     EISSN: 17517583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17517575.2011.651627     Document Type: Article

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