Combinatorial laws for physically meaningful design

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-10

  Ramaswamy, Vasu ^a   Shapiro, Vadim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPERATORS; COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN; PHYSICAL INFORMATIONS; SURFACE SMOOTHINGS;

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 8744267223     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1645863     Document Type: Article

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