Advances in Design

Next Generation Design.- Economic Growth, Business Innovation and Engineering Design.- Directions of Next Generation Product Development.- ‘What-if’ Design as an Integrative Method in Product Design.- Self Organization in Design.- Towards a Design Methodology for Self-optimizing Systems.- Design Knowledge and Functional Design.- Reusing Design Knowledge.- Structural and Functional Analysis for Assemblies.- Knowledge Management for a Cooperative Design System.- Innovative and Conceptual Design.- AdaptEx: Extending Product Life Cycles through Strategic Product Upgrades.- Product Genetic Engineering.- Gene Engineering-based Innovation of Manufactured Products.- Use of Constraint Programming for Design.- Model Infrastructures and Human Interaction in a Stereo Table Environment.- Inventive Design Applied to Injection Molding.- Design Frameworks.- Supporting Problem Expression within a Co-evolutionary Design Framework.- A Four-stage Approximation Strategy for the Exploration of a Mechanical Concept.- A Framework of Product Styling Platform Using Case-based Styling Indexing.- A Systematic Design Approach for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems.- Crosstalk: Collaborative Framework for Electro-mechanical Product Design.- Integrated Architecture of Geometric Models and Design Intentions.- Design Management.- Management of Engineering Design Process in Collaborative Situation.- Requirements Management for the Extended Automotive Enterprise.- Federated Product Data Management in Multi-company Projects.- STEP PLCS for Design and In-service Product Data Management.- Value Chain Structure and Correlation Between Design Structure Matrices.- Integration of Cost Models in Design and Manufacturing.- Product Life Cycle.- Life Cycle Product Support in the Digital Age.- Total QualityManagement and Process Modeling for PLM in SME.- Selection and Evaluation of PLM Tools for Competitive Product Development.- Collaborative Engineering Design.- Efficient Product Data Sharing in Collaboration Life Cycles.- Design Iterations in a Geographically Distributed Design Process.- A Cluster-based Approach for Collaborative Design Process Analysis.- Workspaces and Cooperation Notions in the Design Process.- Pitfalls of Engineering Change.- Modeling of Manufacturing Process Complexity.- Human Modeling in Industrial Design.- Design Intent and Tolerancing.- On the Merging of Geometric Models Based on Hierarchical Context.- Haptic Virtual Prototyping for Design and Assessment of Gear-shifts.- Predicting Design Quality through Sensitivity Modeling.- Computer Aided Tolerancing - Solver and Post Processor Analysis.- A New Method for Integrated Design and Tolerancing.- Contact and Channel Model for Pairs of Working Surfaces.- Modeling and Design for Manufacturing.- Manufacturing-driven Design of Sculptured Surfaces.- Extended Design for X for Digital Consumer Products.- Development of Integrated Design System for Structural Design of Machine Tools.- The Structured Design of a Reconfigurable Control Process.