Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Early Supplier Involvement in New Product Development With WeBid: A Case Study on Video Conferencing System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)WeBid is a prototype web-based framework developed for supporting and facilitating early supplier involvement in new product development on the Internet. It provides a suite of rigorous and yet ... -
Efficient Computation of A Simplified Medial Axis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)The computation and application of the medial axis have been limited because of its instability and algebraic complexity. In this paper, we use a simplification of the medial axis, the θ-SMA, ... -
Special Issue on Solid Modeling Theory and Engineering Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)The ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications is an annual international forum for the exchange of recent research and applications of spatial modeling and computations in design, analysis ... -
Surface and Volume Discretization of Functionally Based Heterogeneous Objects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)The presented approach to discretization of functionally defined heterogeneous objects is oriented towards applications associated with numerical simulation procedures, for example, finite element ... -
Collision Prediction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)The prediction of collisions amongst N rigid objects may be reduced to a series of computations of the time to first contact for all pairs of objects. Simple enclosing bounds and hierarchical ... -
Tight Cocone: A Water-tight Surface Reconstructor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)Surface reconstruction from unorganized sample points is an important problem in computer graphics, computer aided design, medical imaging and solid modeling. Recently a few algorithms have been ... -
Generalization of the Mid-Element Based Dimensional Reduction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)Boundary value problems posed over thin solids are often amenable to a dimensional reduction in that one or more spatial dimensions may be eliminated from the governing equation. One of the ... -
Scale-Space Representation and Classification of 3D Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)This paper presents a framework for shape matching and classification through scale-space decomposition of 3D models. The algorithm is based on recent developments in efficient hierarchical ... -
A Survey of Computer-Aided Modeling Tools for Aesthetic Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)The goal of this paper is to discuss the key issues in the computer-aided surface modeling tools used in the industrial aesthetic design workflow and to highlight the problems that still make ... -
Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)This Special Issue of JCISE is drawn from outstanding papers presented at the 2002 ACM Solid Modeling symposium. This is the second year that JCISE and ACM have collaborated to produce such ... -
Design for Fixturability (DFF) Methodology for Commodity Parts: A Case Study With Connecting Rod Designs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)This paper presents a methodology called ‘Design for Fixturability’ (DFF). This methodology enables designers to perform manufacturability analysis of their product designs upfront into the design ... -
Evolutionary Optimization and Use of Neural Network for Optimum Stamping Process Design for Minimum Springback
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)Sheet metal forming is characterized by various process parameters such as the forming sequence, shapes of products and dies, friction parameters, forming speed etc. A designer is faced with ... -
A Hybrid Disassembly Sequence Planning Approach for Maintenance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)This paper describes a hybrid approach to handle disassembly sequence planning for maintenance. The product under maintenance is first modeled using a novel hybrid graph known as Disassembly ... -
Analyzing the Relationship of Presence and Immersive Tendencies on the Conceptual Design Review Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)The conceptual design review process is a critical cost determining step for complex products such as ground vehicles. The use of virtual environments (VEs) in this process has become increasingly ... -
Strategies for Product Structure Management at Manufacturing Firms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)Product structure management (PSM) is a process that affects many of the activity domains1. (AD) in a company. Different ADs have different requirements for the decomposition of a product ... -
Data Interface Software for Windows PC-compatible Virtual Reality Scene Graphs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)In this article we review commonly used data translation software for Windows PC-based virtual reality (VR) scene graphs. The goal is efficient data input and output from various VR software. ... -
Using Genetic Algorithms to Set Target Values for Engineering Characteristics in the House of Quality
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)As part of a strategy for obtaining preliminary design specifications from the House of Quality, genetic algorithms are used to generate and optimize preliminary design specifications for an ... -
Identification and Characterization of Regular Surfaces from Unorganized Points by Normal Sensitivity Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)In this paper, the concept of free motion subspace is introduced and utilized to characterize the special kinematic properties of regular surfaces, including planes, natural quadrics, and regular ... -
Memory Analysis of Solid Model Representations for Heterogeneous Objects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)Methods to represent and exchange parts consisting of Functionally Graded Material (FGM) for Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) with Local Composition Control (LCC) are evaluated based on their ... -
Interoperability Standards in the Semantic Web
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)The growth in the use of the Internet brings with it an increase in the number of interconnections among information systems supporting the manufacturing supply chain as well as other businesses. ...