Title page -- Preface -- Organization -- Sponsors -- Contents -- Keynotes and Invited Papers -- The Ubiquitous Web -- Concurrent Engineering - Past, Present and Future -- Product Life Cycle Management: A Solution to Manage Innovation for Manufacturing Companies -- Towards Systems Integration Technology -- Collaborative Product Development: EADS Pilot Based on ATHENA Results -- Wavelets to Enhance Computational Intelligence in Computer-Aided Engineering -- Visual Reasoning, an Underlying Cognitive Element of Design Creativity, and Its Intelligent Tutoring System -- Supporting System for Design and Production with Sharing and Access of Product Failure -- Service-Driven Web Manufacturing: A Roadmap from Methodology to Applications -- Workshop 1: Web Services in CE -- A Formal Model for Web Service Composition -- An Automaton-Based Approach for Web Service Mediation -- Workshop 2: Interoperability in CE -- Towards an Ontology-Enabled Approach Helping SMEs to Access the Single European Electronic Market -- Enabling Adoption of STEP Standards Through the Use of Popular Technologies -- Interoperability Issues in CONNIE: Creating a Network of Decentralised Portals -- Collaborative, Mobile and Multimodal Working Environment -- Autonomic Workflow Management in Agent-Based Structural Health Monitoring Systems Using Graph Theory -- Developing a Decision-Making Framework for Effective Collaborative Working -- An Assured Environment for Collaborative Engineering Using Web Services -- A New Collaborative Working Environment for Concurrent Engineering in Manufacturing Industry -- A Distributed Architecture for Collaborative Design -- WiPam - Wireless Patient Management, a Novel Telemedicine Solution -- Supporting Interactive and Collaborative Product Configuration for Internet Commerce.

Towards PLM Based Digital Mock-Up Exchange in Collaborative Product Development -- Conflict Management in Design Process: Focus on Changes Impact -- Towards Agent-Based Collaborative Design -- Semantic Enterprise, Semantic Web and Ontologies in CE -- Ontology-Based Mediation System -- LCA and LCC Data Semantics Sharing Across Product Lifecycle Processes -- Managing Concurrent Engineering Design Processes and Associated Knowledge -- e-Collaboration Platform for Metal Forming Enterprises Based on the Semantic Web Technologies -- Combining Ontology Engineering with HTN Planning -- The Semantic Web for Improving Dynamic Tourist Packages Commercialisation -- Improving Mappings Discovery for Semantic Interoperability -- A Mapping from Pi-Calculus into BPEL -- Using Context to Improve Semantic Interoperability -- An Ontology-Based Approach for "Procedural CAD Models" Data Exchange -- Knowledge in CE -- Knowledge Acquisition for Generative Model Construction -- A Knowledge-Driven Data Warehouse Model for Analysis Evolution -- An Approach for Building Project Memories to Facilitate Design Process in a Concurrent Engineering Context -- Decomposition-Based Reasoning for Large Knowledge Bases in Description Logics -- Knowledge and Object Phylogenetic Production Cascades - The TELOS Case -- Knowledge Management to Support Lean Product Development -- Capitalization of Knowledge from Projects -- Considerations of KMS Implementation in Concurrent Engineering - Economic Perspectives -- Global Standardization and CE -- The Ubiquitous Factory of the Future Based on STEP-NC -- Intellectual Property Protection in Concurrent Engineering Domains -- Comparison of Data Models for Plant Lifecycle Information Management -- System Engineering Applied to Specification and Characterisation of Data Management Systems for Collaborative Engineering.

A Critical Assessment of ISO 13584 Adoption by B2B Data Exchange Specifications -- A Standardised Data Model for Process and Flow Management: ISO 15531-43 - A Step Towards CE in Manufacturing - -- Information Systems in CE -- A Solution for an Unified Vision of the Enterprise Informations -- Secured Information System for Concurrent Engineering Applications -- Non Invasive, Cross-Sector Development and Management of Trends -- Semantic Indexing of Documents -- Concurrent Use in an Image Management System -- Multilingual Indexing Based on Ontologies -- Using External Knowledge to Solve Multi-Dimensional Queries -- Towards a Standard Protocol for Community-Driven Organizations of Knowledge -- An IR Model Based on a Sub-Tree Representation -- Innovation and Business Strategies -- Develop a Novel Methodology for Strategic Product Portfolio Management Considering Multi-Objectives and Operational Constraints -- Business Development Process Assisted by QFD -- Integrated CE Tools for Postponed Aerospace Product and Process Decisions -- Concurrent Engineering and the Dynaxity Approach. How to Benefit from Multidisciplinarity -- Characterization of a Theorical Learning Network for Innovative Design for Small and Medium-Sized Firms -- Design, Manufacturing and Services in CE -- The Role of Associations in CAD and PLM for Handling Change Propagation During Product Development -- Manufacturing Knowledge Management: Requirements for Preliminary Design -- Platform Module Design for Variety and Cost of Product Family -- Concurrent Design of a Manufacturing System Utilizing a Microfactory -- Progress Toward and the Promise of Multidiscipline Engine Simulation -- Intelligent Layout Design for Complex Mechatronic Products Based on Distributed Knowledge -- A Fuzzy QFD Approach for Designing Internal Processes for Air Cargo Transportation Services.

CAD Interactions for Increasing Designers Awareness of Manufacturability -- Concurrent Conceptual Design of Movable-Counterweights Method -- Proposal for a Product Model Dedicated to the Foundry Industry -- Transmission Systems Design - Decisions, Multi-Criteria Optimization in Distributed Environment -- An Object Oriented Extensible Architecture for Multi-Level Systems Analysis -- An HTN Planning Approach for Power System Scheduling Using SHOP2 -- The PDES Workbench -- Process Chains of Machining Tools -- Parallel hp-Finite Element Simulations of 3D Resistivity Logging Instruments -- Knowledge Driven Optimization and Finite Element Analysis of Aircraft Structures -- Integrated Approach for Developing Agile Strategy -- Product Family Design Based on Real Options Valuation -- Application of Information Theory to the Quantification of Concurrent Engineering Processes -- Cost Engineering in CE -- A Proposed Method for Cost Estimating for Low Volume Infrequent Electronic Products -- Understanding Decision Making in Cost Engineering Using Protocol Analysis -- Producibility Awareness as a Base for Design Automation Development - Analysis and Synthesis Approach to Cost Estimation -- Incorporating Cost Analysis in a Multi Disciplinary Design Environment for Aircraft Movables -- Identifying the Key Factors Affecting the Quality of a Cost Estimate -- Educational, Social Aspects and Humanities Inside CE -- Transferring Knowledge Between Implementers when Building Inter-Organisational Information Systems -- CE in Engineering Education: An Observation from the Experience -- Adapting the ELO Rating System to Competing Subpopulations in a "Man-Hill" -- Towards Holistic Approach for Business Informatics - Oriented Skills Formation in the Knowledge Economy -- Applications in CE.

The Evaluation of Advantageous Industries and the Analysis of Their Global Logistics Operations - Case Study of Precision Machine Tool Industry -- Developing Web Application to Support Effective Recycling and Material Circulation -- Concurrent Engineering Application on the Development of Parts for the White Goods Industry in Brazil - A Case Study -- Methods and Tools to Support the Cooperative Design of One-of-a-Kind Products -- Research on Logistics Technology and Analysis on the Beijing Olympic Games Requirements -- Minimum Traversal Circles for Layered Manufacturing Application -- Study on Rough Set-Based Clustering Result Presentation Method for High Dimensional Data Space -- CE Perspectives -- Virtual Reality Systems and CE: How to Evaluate the Benefits -- Enterprise System Implementation in Integrated Context -- A Value Creation Planning Method to Complex Engineering Products Development -- Author Index.