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    • Elements of an Interface Standard for Knowledge Sources in Knowledge-Based Engineering 

      Volker Poenisch; Andrew Clark (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      Software architectures for knowledge-based engineering often separate applications from their knowledge sources. We propose elements for a new standard for the resulting interface. The fully automatic ...
    • JCISE Completes Five Years of Publishing! 

      Jami J. Shah (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      With our last issue, JCISE completed five years of publishing. Since our first issue came out in March 2001, we have produced 20 issues containing 217 articles, of which 170 were full length ...
    • A Transparent Design System for Iterative Product Development 

      Staffan Sunnersjö; Ingvar Rask; Mikael Cederfeldt; Fredrik Elgh (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      Automated systems for variant design can be used for design iterations in order to guide the designer towards solutions that are optimized with respect to weight, cost, lead time, or other ...
    • Call for Papers 

      Unknown author (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      MESA06—The 2nd IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications Beijing, China on August 13–16, 2006
    • A Product Feature Evolution Validation Model for Engineering Change Management 

      Nadjib Bouikni; Louis Rivest; Alain Desrochers (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      Product design integrates several disciplines in a concurrent engineering (CE) environment. Each one of these disciplines has a specific point of view on the product being developed. While each ...
    • A Multidimensional Visualization Interface to Aid in Trade-off Decisions During the Solution of Coupled Subsystems Under Uncertainty 

      Deepti Kanukolanu; Eliot H. Winer; Kemper E. Lewis (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      In this paper, the application of visualization to aid in trade-off decisions when solving multi-objective optimization problems involving coupled subsystems under uncertainty is presented. The ...
    • A Method for Automatic Generation of Parametric Computer Aided Design Models in a Mold Base e-Catalog System 

      Duhwan Mun; Heungki Kim; Kwangsub Jang; Junmyun Cho; Junhwan Kim; Soonhung Han (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      Reusing existing design models and utilizing an e-Catalog for components are required for faster product development. For the acceleration, an e-Catalog should provide parametric computer aided ...
    • Design Modification in a Collaborative Assembly Design Environment 

      C. Lu; W. D. Li; Y. Q. Lu; J. Y. Fuh; Y. S. Wong; Z. M. Qiu (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      This paper discusses the design modification issue in a collaborative assembly (co-assembly) design environment, which enables multiple geographically dispersed designers to design and assemble parts ...
    • Analysis and Evaluation for STEP-Based Electromechanical Assemblies 

      Xuan F. Zha; Sebti Foufou; Rachuri Sudarsan; Ram D. Sriram (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      In this paper, we propose an integrated approach to analysis and evaluation for STEP-based (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data, officially ISO 10303) electromechanical assemblies. ...
    • Special Issue on Collaborative Engineering 

      Ram D. Sriram; Simon Szykman; Delcie Durham (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      Design of complex engineering systems is increasingly becoming a collaborative task among designers or design teams that are physically, geographically, and temporally distributed. The complexity ...
    • ERMM: An Engineering Requirements Management Method 

      Nanxin Wang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      Automotive product development is a lengthy and complex process. There exists a large body of various requirements, standards, and regulations, which need to be followed by all engineering ...
    • Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Based Multi-Level Graphics Representation for Engineering Rich-Content Exchange in Mobile Collaboration Computing Environments 

      Xiaoyong Su; B. S. Prabhu; Chi-Cheng Chu; Rajit Gadh (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      A two-dimensional (2D) graphics hierarchical representation framework and an on-demand content delivery mechanism for facilitating mobile engineering collaboration are presented in this paper. ...
    • Constructive Heterogeneous Object Modeling Using Signed Approximate Real Distance Functions 

      Pierre-Alain Fayolle; Alexander Pasko; Benjamin Schmitt; Nikolay Mirenkov (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      We introduce a smooth approximation of the min∕max operations, called signed approximate real distance function (SARDF), for maintaining an approximate signed distance function in constructive shape ...
    • Digital Photogrammetry for Facial Recognition 

      L. M. Galantucci; R. Ferrandes; G. Percoco (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      In this paper, the authors present a biometric low-cost 3D acquisition system, based on a digital photogrammetry technique. The aim of the work is to analyze the suitability of this system ...
    • Achieving Online Coordination in Real-Time Collaborative Assembly Modeling: A Supervisory Control Approach 

      Lei Feng; Li Chen (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      A real-time collaborative assembly modeling process involves the teamwork of multiple designers. Without adequate coordination, this multi-user based modeling process could be more time consuming, ...
    • Point Cloud to CAD Model Registration Methods in Manufacturing Inspection 

      Thomas M. Tucker; Thomas R. Kurfess (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      Modern computer vision and coordinate metrology systems provide an ever-increasing flow of information from the physical world we live in to the virtual world inside computer systems. Often the ...
    • A Dimension-Independent Representation for Multiresolution Nonmanifold Meshes 

      Leila De Floriani; Annie Hui (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      We consider the problem of representing and manipulating nonmanifold objects of any dimension and at multiple resolutions. We present a modeling scheme based on (1) a multiresolution representation, ...
    • A Comprehensive Tool for Recovering 3D Models From 2D Photos With Wide Baselines 

      Yuzhu Lu; Shana Smith (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      Recovering 3D objects from 2D photos is an important application in the areas of computer vision, computer intelligence, feature recognition, and virtual reality. This paper describes an innovative ...
    • Computer-Aided Reconfiguration Planning: An Artificial Intelligence-Based Approach 

      Li Tang; Derek M. Yip-Hoi; Wencai Wang; Yoram Koren (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      The manufacturing industry today faces a highly volatile market in which manufacturing systems must be capable of responding rapidly to market changes while fully exploiting existing resources. ...
    • Interactive Feature Modeling for Reverse Engineering 

      K. Schreve; D. Dimitrov; C. L. Goussard; A. H. Basson (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      In feature based reverse engineering entities, or features, having higher level engineering meaning are used to approximate point data. This is in contrast to approximating the data with free ...