Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Creeping Contours: A Multilabel Image Segmentation Method for Extracting Boundary Surfaces of Parts in Volumetric Images
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)In this work, we introduce a method named creeping contours for image segmentation into component parts for the purpose of extracting the boundary surfaces of these parts. Creeping contours are ... -
Multidocument Summarization of Engineering Papers Based on Macro- and Microstructure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)This paper focuses on automatic summarization of multiple engineering papers. A summarization approach based on documents’ macro- and microstructure has been proposed. The macrostructure consists ... -
Proactive Assembly Oriented Design Approach Based on the Deployment of Functional Requirements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Concurrent engineering and integrated design have been a major issue over the past two decades especially considering design for X stakes. This paper describes a new proposal of integrated ... -
Data-Driven Design Optimization for Composite Material Characterization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The main goal of the present paper is to demonstrate the value of design optimization beyond its use for structural shape determination in the realm of the constitutive characterization of ... -
Similarity Assessment of Mechanical Parts Based on Integrated Product Information Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)To improve the quality of design, reduce the cost of production, and shorten the cycle of product development, an effective system to manage and reuse existing design resources is established. ... -
Affective-Cognitive Modeling for User Experience With Modular Colored Fuzzy Petri Nets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Design innovation that accommodates customers’ affective needs along with their cognitive decisions suggests itself to be of primary importance for a system to convey more added-value. Product ... -
Design of Compliant Thermal Actuators Using Structural Optimization Based on the Level Set Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Compliant mechanisms are designed to be flexible to achieve a specified motion as a mechanism. Such mechanisms can function as compliant thermal actuators in micro-electromechanical systems by ... -
An Approach to Constraint-Based and Mass-Customizable Product Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)In traditional product development, several iterations are usually necessary to obtain a successful compromise between constraints emanating from engineering, manufacturing, and aesthetics. Moreover, ... -
Effects of Size, Orientation, and Form Tolerances on the Frequency Distributions of Clearance Between Two Planar Faces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)A new mathematical model for representing the geometric variations of a planar surface is extended to include probabilistic representations for a 1D dimension of interest, which can be determined ... -
Modeling the Effect of Product Architecture on Mass-Collaborative Processes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Traditional product development efforts are primarily based on well-structured and hierarchical product development processes. The products are systematically decomposed into subsystems that are ... -
Intelligent Support for Product Design: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering this article will provide a retrospective of past research on intelligent systems in ... -
Current Issues and Trends in Meshing and Geometric Processing for Computational Engineering Analyses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)This paper presents the current issues and trends in meshing and geometric processing, core tasks in the preparation stage of computational engineering analyses. In product development, computational ... -
Engineering-Oriented Geometry Methods for Modeling and Analyzing Scanned Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The emerging field of Engineering Oriented Geometry (EOG) comprises new and extended geometric modeling methods that are directly related to the shared inherent engineering attributes of design, ... -
Recent Advances and Future Challenges in Automated Manufacturing Planning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The effective planning of a product’s manufacture is critical to both its cost and delivery time. Recognition of this importance has motivated over 30 years of research into automated planning ... -
Comparison of Spatial Math Models for Tolerance Analysis: Tolerance-Maps, Deviation Domain, and TTRS
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)This paper presents a comparison of degree of freedom (DOF) based math models, viz., tolerance-maps, deviation domain, and TTRS, which have shown most potential for retrofitting the nuances of ... -
Computer-Based Design Synthesis Research: An Overview
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)One of the hallmarks of engineering design is the design synthesis phase where the creativity of the designer most prominently comes into play as solutions are generated to meet underlying ... -
Geometric Issues in Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Engineering Integration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The long-standing goal of computer aided design (CAD)/computer aided engineering (CAE) integration demands seamless interfaces between geometric design and engineering analysis/simulation tasks. The ... -
Analysis of the Structure and Evolution of an Open-Source Community
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Open-source processes are based on the paradigm of self-organized communities as opposed to the traditional hierarchical teams. These processes have not only been successful in the software ... -
The Importance of Training for Interactive Trade Space Exploration: A Study of Novice and Expert Users
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Thanks to recent advances in computing power and speed, engineers can now generate a wealth of data on demand to support design decision-making. These advances have enabled new approaches to ... -
A Freehand Vascular Designing and Modeling Tool for Surgery Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)This paper presents an intuitive sketching tool for human-computer interactively designing and modeling the vascular structure. Our system supports freehand outlining of the initial vascular structure ...