Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering: Recent submissions
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A Semantic Association Hardware Acceleration System for Integrated Product Data Management
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Many modern products are complex systems comprised of highly integrated mechanical, electrical, electronic, and software components, which are commonly known as mechatronic systems. Similarly, product ... -
Reverse Shape Synthesis of the Hydropump Volute Using Stereo-Photogrammetry, Parameterization, and Geometric Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)An automatic procedure for reverse 3D shape synthesis is proposed. Shape acquisition of an existing object involving stereo-photogrammetry, triangulation, and 3D reconstruction is applied to obtain ... -
A Stochastic Tree-Search Algorithm for Generative Grammars
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This paper presents a new search method that has been developed specifically for search trees defined by a generative grammar. Generative grammars are useful in design as a way to encapsulate ... -
Simulation of Interactions and Emergent Failure Behavior During Complex System Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Emergent behavior is a unique aspect of complex systems, where they exhibit behavior that is more complex than the sum of the behavior of their constituent parts. This behavior includes the ... -
Direct Numerical Control (NC) Path Generation: From Discrete Points to Continuous Spline Paths
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Spline paths in NC machining are advantageous over linear and circular paths due to their smoothness and compact representation, thus are highly desirable in high-speed machining (HSM) where ... -
Environment Based Design Approach to Integrating Enterprise Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Enterprises tend to depend on various legacy applications in supporting their business strategies and in achieving their goals. In order for an enterprise to be efficient and cost-effective, ... -
Proxy Position Prediction Based Continuous Local Patch for Smooth Haptic Rendering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The edge effect is a problem that has to be tackled when performing haptic interaction with discontinuous primitives. In this paper, an innovated algorithm is designed to render a smooth haptic ... -
Free Form Surface Skinning of 3D Curve Clouds for Conceptual Shape Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In product design, designers often create a multitude of concept sketches as part of the ideation and exploration process. Transforming such sketches to 3D digital models requires special expertise ... -
Automatically Creating Design Models From 3D Anthropometry Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)When designing a product that needs to fit the human shape, designers often use a small set of 3D models, called design models, either in physical or digital form, as representative shapes ... -
Modeling an Radio Frequency Identification Asset Management Solution Hosted on a Cloud Service and Its Characterization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)A web-based architecture of an radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking solution is proposed and deployed. The architecture attempts to depart from the typical localized approach of most ... -
Dependency Modeling and Model Management in Mechatronic Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Mechatronic design is traditionally supported through domain-specific design activities throughout the product development process. The partitioning into domain-specific problems leads to a situation ... -
Robust Optimization of Mixed-Integer Problems Using NURBs-Based Metamodels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The optimization of mixed-integer problems is a classic problem with many industrial and design applications. A number of algorithms exist for the numerical optimization of these problems, but ... -
A Three-Dimensional Evacuation Simulation Using Digital Human Models With Precise Kinematic Joints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Disaster drills are important for minimizing the damage caused by earthquakes, floods, and fires. Therefore, mass-evacuation drills are considered to be an important obligation of schools and ... -
Combining Mathematical Programming and SysML for Automated Component Sizing of Hydraulic Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In this paper, we present a framework for automated component sizing to extend a designer's ability to evaluate a particular configuration during the architecture exploration phase of a ... -
Optimization of Manipulability in the Design of a Surgery Trainer Based on Virtual Reality
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In the field of minimally invasive surgery (MIS), trainers based on virtual reality provide a very useful, nondegradable, realistic training environment. The project of building this new type ... -
Geometric Constraint Solving With Solution Selectors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Current parametric CAD systems are based on solving equality types of constraints between geometric objects and parameters. This includes algebraic equations constraining the values of variables, ... -
A Novel Approach to Algebraic Fitting of a Pencil of Quadrics for Planar 4R Motion Synthesis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The use of the image space of planar displacements for planar motion approximation is a well studied subject. While the constraint manifolds associated with planar four-bar linkages are algebraic, ... -
Modeling of Geometric Variations for Line-Profiles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The geometric variations in a tolerance-zone can be modeled with hypothetical point-spaces called Tolerance-Maps (T-Maps) for purposes of automating the assignment of tolerances during design. The ... -
A Process Oriented Hybrid Resource Integration Framework for Product Variant Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Design resources such as design tools, knowledge, and data play important roles in the product variant design. The requirements for these resources as well as the resource integration mechanisms ... -
Some Advancements to Visualizing Constrained Functions and Inequalities of Two Variables
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Based on the problem of visualizing the potential energy of a two-degree-of-freedom spring-mass system restrained by an elastic string, several advancements to visualizing functions with constraints ...