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A strategy for acquiring customer requirement patterns using laddering technique and ART2 neural network
Abstract With the increasing interest and emphasis on customer demands in new product development, customer requirements elicitation (CRE) and evaluation have secured a crucial position in the early stage of product ...

Adaptive Resonance Theory-based neural algorithms for manufacturing process quality control
Abstract The demand for quality products in industry is continuously increasing. To produce products with consistent quality, manufacturing systems need to be closely monitored for any unnatural deviation in the state of the process. ...

Soliciting customer requirements for product redesign based on picture sorts and ART2 neural network
Abstract Design knowledge acquisition plays an extremely important role in new product conceptualization and product redesign. This study aims at facilitating the effectiveness of product redesign activities. It involves two ...

A Self-Organizational Management Network Based on Adaptive Resonance Theory
Abstract This paper presents an organizational network for product configuration management within the context of Virtual Enterprise. Actors, from high level strategy making actors to low level physical devices, can advertise their ...

ART 2-A for optimal test series design in QSAR
Abstract The family of adaptive resonance theory (ART) based systems concerns distinct artificial neural networks for unsupervised and supervised clustering analysis. Among them, the ART 2-A paradigm presents numerous strengths for ...