Organization of engineering knowledge for product modelling in computer integrated manufacturing : a collection of contributions based on lectures presented at the 2nd Toyota Conference, Aichi, Japan, 2-5 October 1988

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Intelligent CAD (H. Yoshikawa). Knowledge management for preliminary computer-aided mechanical design (D.C. Anderson, R.H. Crawford). The basic research issues in computer-aided design and manufacturing processes (K.K. Wang). Bionical manufacturing systems - Bio-modelon based system design (N. Okino). Spatial reasoning: From robotics to engineering (J.C. Latombe). Artificial intelligence in computer aided design (S. Ohsuga). Product modeling for design and production (O. Bjorke). Knowledge integrated product modeling for design and manufacture (F.-L. Krause). Modeling design processes as evolving first order interpretations (T. Yagiu). Product modeling for flexible integration of design and manufacturing activities (F. Kimura, H. Suzuki, M. Inui). Improving product models and kernel modellers (I.C. Braid). Feature-based product modeling for process planning (M. Mantyla). A framework for 3D modeling: Constraint-based description and non-manifold geometric modeling (S. Kawabe, K. Shimada, H. Masuda). Tools for intelligent human communication and collaboration for better manufacturing (T. Kjellberg). Capturing context dependent rules from interaction sequences: An example for mechanical design (U. Cugini). Development of the human interface for interactive software (H.R. Hartson). Artificial evolution and intimate machines (M. Toda).