The proceedings of the 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE2008)

Collaborative Engineering.- Distributed Collaborative Layout Design in Service-Oriented Architecture.- Resolving Collaborative Design Conflicts Through an Ontology-based Approach.- Creating Value Within and Between European Regions in the Photovoltaic Sector.- Agent-based Collaborative Maintenance Chain for Engineering Asset Management.- Collaborative Engineering Systems.- Research on the Distributed Concurrent and Collaborative Design Platform Architecture Based on SOA.- Collaborative Architecture Based on Web-Services.- From Internet to Cross-Organisational Networking.- Grid-based Virtual Collaborative Facility: Concurrent and Collaborative Engineering for Space Projects.- Cost Engineering.- Cost CENTRE-ing: An Agile Cost Estimating Methodology for Procurement.- Cost of Physical Vehicle Crash Testing.- Estimating Cost at the Conceptual Design Stage to Optimize Design in terms of Performance and Cost.- Drone.- Design for Sound Transmission Loss through an Enclosure of a Generator Set.- Design Tool Methodology for Simulation of Enclosure Cooling Performance.- Using Virtual Engineering Techniques to Aid with Design Trade-Off Studies for an Enclosed Generator Set.- Sound Transmission Loss of Movable Double-leaf Partition Wall.- Modelling Correlated and Uncorrelated Sound Sources.- Interoperability.- Backup Scheduling in Clustered P2P Network.- Towards an Intelligent CAD Models Sharing Based on Semantic Web Technologies.- Towards a Multi-View Semantic Model for Product Feature Description.- Integrated Design.- Development of a Lightweight Knowledge Based Design System as a Business Asset to Support Advanced Fixture and Tooling Design.- Near Net-shape Manufacturing Costs.- Modelling the Life Cycle Cost of Aero-engine Maintenance.- Value Driven Design - an Initial StudyApplied to Novel Aerospace Components in Rolls-Royce plc.- Integrated Wing.- A Generic Life Cycle Cost Modeling Approach for Aircraft System.- Cost-Efficient Materials in Aerospace: Composite vs Aluminium.- A Multi-Fidelity Approach for Supporting Early Aircraft Design Decisions.- Cost Modelling of Composite Aerospace Parts and Assemblies.- Integrated Product Process Development (IPPD).- A Design Methodology for Module Interfaces.- Reducing the Standard Deviation When Integrating Process Planning and Production Scheduling Through the Use of Expert Systems in an Agent-based Environment.- Extracting Variant Product Concepts Through Customer Involvement Model.- QFD and CE as Methodologies for a Quality Assurance in Product Development.- Information Systems.- Integration of Privilege Management Infrastructure and Workflow Management Systems.- A Comparative Analysis of Project Management Information Systems to Support Concurrent Engineering.- Location-Aware Tour Guide Systems in Museum.- PDM - University Student Monitoring Management System.- Knowledge Based Engineering.- Multidisciplinary Design of Flexible Aircraft.- Service Oriented Concurrent Engineering with Hybrid Teams using a Multi-agent Task Environment.- Systems Engineering and Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization.- Application of a Knowledge Engineering Process to Support Engineering Design Application Development.- Knowledge Engineering.- Knowledge Based Optimization of the Manufacturing Processes Supported by Numerical Simulations of Production Chain.- Characterization of the Products Strategic Planning: a Survey in Brazil.- Using Ontologies to Optimise Design-Driven Development Processes.- CAD Education Support System Based on Workflow.- Configuration Grammars: Powerful Tools for Product Modelling in CADSystems.- Ontologies.- A Semantic Based Approach for Automatic Patent Document Summarization.- Develop a Formal Ontology Engineering Methodology for Technical Knowledge Definition in R&D Knowledge Management.- Ontologia PLM Project: Development and Preliminary Results.- Modelling and Management of Design Artefacts in Design Optimisation.- Premade.- A Quantitative Metric for Workstation Design for Aircraft Assembly.- An Integrated Lean Approach to Aerospace Assembly Jig and Work Cell Design Using Digital Manufacturing..- The Effect of Using Animated Work Instructions Over Text and Static Graphics When Performing a Small Scale Engineering Assembly.- Digital Lean Manufacture (DLM): A New Management Methodology for Production Operations Integration.- Sustainability.- Simulation of Component Reuse Focusing on the Variation in User Preference.- Evaluation of Environmental Loads Based on 3D-CAD.- Proposal of a Methodology Applied to the Analysis and Selection of Performance Indicators for Sustainability Evaluation Systems.- Ocean Wave Energy Systems Design: Conceptual Design Methodology for the Operational Matching of the Wells Air Turbine.