Contextual diagrams as structuring mechanisms for designing configuration knowledge bases in UML

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1939, Issue , 2000, Pages 240-254

  Felfernig, Alexander ^a   Jannach, Dietmar ^a   Zanker, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

COMPLEX CONFIGURATION; COMPUTER INDUSTRY; DOMAIN EXPERTS; KNOWLEDGE BASIS; MODEL CONFIGURATION; PRODUCT CONFIGURATION; PRODUCT CYCLE; STRUCTURING MECHANISMS;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84956992023     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-40011-7_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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