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Competitive Design - Proceedings of the 19th CIRP Design Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 355-362

  Stroble, J K ^a   Stone, R B ^b   McAdams, D A ^c   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

Analogical reasoning; Engineering design; Function

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DESIGN; FUNCTIONS; SEARCH ENGINES;

ANALOGICAL REASONING; DATABASE SEARCHES; ENGINEERING DESIGN; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; SEARCH WORDS;

THESAURI;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84912123026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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