Advances in Concurrent Engineering: CE97 ProceedingsDocuments the conference with 57 papers. Among the topics are a multicriteria decision making approach to concurrent engineering in product design, a morphological heuristic for scheduling, multiple-viewpoint computer-aided design models for automotive body-in-white design, product development pract |
Contents
A Multicriteria Decision Making Approach | 11 |
Towards Information Exploration Support for Engineering Designers | 26 |
Virtual Assembly PlanningA Planning Tool for Tomorrows Industry | 39 |
Feature Based Modelling and Intelligent Process Planning Integration | 57 |
PLANNING SCHEDULING | 66 |
Multiple Viewpoint CAD Models for Automotive BodyinWhite Design | 75 |
Product Development Practices in Selected Hong Kong Manufacturing Industries | 91 |
Product Design through Virtual Collocation of Product Designers and Design Services | 101 |
A Method to Evaluate XAbilities of the Work Process | 270 |
A Marketplace of Design Agents for Distributed Concurrent SetBased Design | 287 |
Object Slicing for Rapid Prototyping on the Internet | 301 |
Towards a Design Activity Control System | 317 |
Supplier Information Model in an Extended Enterprise | 331 |
An Agent Based Architecture for Collaborative Design and Analysis | 347 |
A Multilevel Concurrent Engineering Process for Embedded Systems Development | 363 |
Towards the Use of a Knowledge Based Engineering System in a Concurrent Engineering Environment | 381 |
Transaction Management for Concurrent Engineering Design | 115 |
A Unified Product and Process Data Model with Dependency Relations | 133 |
Real Time Simulation of a Process with Information Exchange through the Internet | 147 |
A Java Agent for Communication in a Concurrent Distributed Product Development Environment | 161 |
Collaborative Manufacturing Engineering Using Teleconferencing | 181 |
Information Service and Sharing for Distributed Collaborative Mechanical Design | 199 |
Model Checking in Cooperative Process Engineering Environments | 213 |
A PlanningBased Graph Matching Algorithm for Knowledge Structure Retrieval | 223 |
Hybrid Approach to Piping Route Path Design Using GABased Inspiration and RuleBased Inference | 237 |
Development of a StepBased Information Server for Concurrent Engineering Applications | 255 |
Application of a Framework for Evaluating Risk in Innovative Product Development | 398 |
The House of CE+a Systematic Approach to Comprehensive Engineering | 415 |
An Approach to Implementing Engineering Data Management | 435 |
Toward a Formal Framework to Characterize SkillsNetworks Aiming at Improving | 451 |
Using Spheres of Commitment to Support Virtual Enterprises | 469 |
Supporting Conflict Resolution through MultiParties Negotiation | 491 |
A Patented Eye Depth Perception Testing Apparatus | 507 |
The SINTEF Approach to Introduce Concurrent Engineering Using Design | 514 |
Author Index | 531 |
Common terms and phrases
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