Determining Granularity Level in Product Design Architecture

Lecture Notes in Production Engineering

Volumn Part F1158, Issue , 2013, Pages 535-542

  AlGeddawy, Tarek ^a   ElMaraghy, Hoda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Architecture; Granularity; Modularity; Product Design

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

CLUSTERINGS; COMPONENTS INTEGRATION; DESIGN ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN INTEGRATIONS; GRANULARITY; GRANULARITY LEVELS; MODULAR COMPONENTS; MODULAR DESIGNS; MODULARITY; PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 85165286799     PISSN: 21940525     EISSN: 21940533     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30817-8_52     Document Type: Chapter

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