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Enabling Decision Support and Costing of Product Designs by Using Visual Metaphors

Overview The Systems Engineering Estimation and Decision Support (SEEDS) team is part of the Aerospace Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) at the University of the West of England Bristol (UWE). SEEDS expertise is in working with aerospace organisations to apply techniques in managing, categorising and visualising information to support costing of products within the aerospace sector. This paper outlines techniques used, in order to enable decision support during product development, whilst minimizing dependence on specialist software and detailed programming effort. The basis of this is an Ontology that can be visualised and edited in tree form.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	University of the West of England	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2006	Downloads	3
Format	White Papers
Topics	Decision Support Systems, Application Development

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