Common vocabularies for collective intelligence - work in progress

Web based applications and tools offer a great potential to increase the efficiency of information flow and communication among different agents during emergencies. Among the different factors, technical and non technical, that hinder the integration of an information model in emergency management sector, is a lack of a common, shared vocabulary. This paper furthers previous work in the area of ontology development, and presents a summary and overview of the goal, process and methodology to construct a shared set of metadata that can be used to map existing vocabulary. This paper is a work in progress report

Document-Driven Design for Distributed CAD Services in Service-Oriented Architecture

Current computer-aided design (CAD) systems only support interactive geometry generation, which is not ideal for distributed engineering services in enterprise-to-enterprise collaboration with a generic thin-client service-oriented architecture. This paper proposes a new feature-based modeling mechanism—document-driven design—to enable batch mode geometry construction for distributed CAD systems. A semantic feature model is developed to represent informative and communicative design intent. Feature semantics is explicitly captured as a trinary relation, which provides good extensibility and prevents semantics loss. Data interoperability between domains is enhanced by schema mapping and multiresolution semantics. This mechanism aims to enable asynchronous communication in distributed CAD environments with ease of design alternative evaluation and reuse, reduced human errors, and improved system throughput and utilization

Management of an intelligent argumentation network for a web-based collaborative engineering design environment

Conflict resolution is one of the most challenging tasks in collaborative engineering design. In the previous research, a web-based intelligent collaborative system was developed to address this challenge based on intelligent computational argumentation. However, two important issues were not resolved in that system: priority of participants and self-conflicting arguments. In this thesis, two methods are developed for incorporating priorities of participants into the computational argumentation network: 1) weighted summation and 2) re-assessment of strengths of arguments based on priority of owners of the argument using fuzzy logic inference. In addition, a method for detection of self-conflicting arguments was developed --Abstract, page iii

Multiple-view product representation and development using augmented reality technology

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Uma metodologia para integração CAD/CAPP/CAM voltada para manufatura remota de peças rotacionais baseada na internet

Tese [doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-graduação em Engenharia MecânicaEsta tese de doutorado apresenta uma metodologia para integração CAD/CAPP/CAM voltada para manufatura remota de peças rotacionais via Internet, em especial os protocolos associados à World Wide Web, bem como a implementação de um sistema computacional baseado na arquitetura proposta, que permitiu a validação da metodologia concebida. Esta metodologia, denominada WebMachining (http://WebMachining.AlvaresTech.com), descreve uma arquitetura para implementação do sistema integrado CAD/CAPP/CAM via Web, definindo um arcabouço para um sistema integrado CAD/CAPP/CAM via Internet