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Post-Certification Engineering Taxonomy and Task Value Optimization in the Aerospace Industry

Yvan BeauregardConcordia UniversityCorrespondence[email protected]
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Nadia BhuiyanConcordia University
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Vincent ThomsonMcGill University
Pages 86-100 | Published online: 20 Apr 2015

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