Automated retrieval of non-engineering domain solutions to engineering problems

Competitive Design - Proceedings of the 19th CIRP Design Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 78-85

  Stroble, J K ^a   Stone, R B ^b   McAdams, D A ^c   Goeke, M S ^a   Watkins, S E ^a  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomimicry; Engineering design; Function; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; DESIGN; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION; BIOMIMICRY; ENGINEERING DESIGN; ENGINEERING DOMAINS; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; FUNCTION-BASED DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL BASIS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE;

SEARCH ENGINES;

DATA BASES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGES; PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84912083629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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