Strong competition on the global automotive market is forcing car manufacturers rethink their strategic approach to manufacturing. In order to be competitive, companies need to man...
We propose some slight additions to O-O languages to implement the necessary features for using Deductive Object Programming (DOP). This way of programming based upon the manipula...
The development of complex products, such as automobiles, involves engineering changes that frequently require redesigning or altering the products. Although it has been found that...
Hong Joo Lee, Hyung Jun Ahn, Jong Woo Kim, Sung Jo...
Feature modeling systems usually employ a boundary representation (b-rep) to store the shape information on a product. It has, however, been shown that a b-rep has a number of sho...
Rafael Bidarra, Joaquim Madeira, Willem J. Neels, ...
Business process re-engineering is becoming a main focus in today's efforts to overcome problems and deficits in the automotive and aerospace industries (e.g., integration in...