Tradeoff between modularity and performance for engineered systems and products

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

Volumn DS 35, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Hölttä, Katja ^a   Suh, Eun Suk ^a   De Weck, Olivier ^a  

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Author keywords

Architecture; Modularity; Performance; Trade off

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862630514     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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