Title : 
Effective decision support systems for design
         
        
            Author : 
Jacome, Margarida F.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents a decision support meta-tool aimed at assisting designers during conceptual design and during problem redefinition, in case of infeasibility. The proposed decision support meta-tool works in conjunction with the Minerva design process planning and management meta-tool, being thus directly customizable to a variety of design disciplines
         
        
            Keywords : 
decision support systems; intelligent design assistants; planning (artificial intelligence); Minerva; decision support meta-tool; decision support systems; design assistants; design formalism; design process meta-tool; management meta-tool; Decision support systems; Design automation; Design methodology; Microwave integrated circuits; Process design; Process planning;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1995. Intelligent Systems for the 21st Century., IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Vancouver, BC
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-2559-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICSMC.1995.537997