Deployment of an AEC industry sector product model
CIMsteel Integration Standard, Version 2 (CIS/2) is an industry-developed product model based on ISO-STEP technology that has been widely adopted within the steel construction industry. CIS/2 is an early success story of broad use of a product model for both data exchange and improving the productivity of those companies taking advantage of its capabilities. Here, we review the history of CIS/2, the methods and issues arising from its deployment, the benefits it has thus far realized and the research issues these activities have identified.

title: Erratum to: "Deployment of an AEC industry sector product model [Computer-Aided Design 37 (12) 1214-1228]"
abstract: CIMsteel Integration Standard, Version 2 (CIS/2) is an industry-developed product model based on ISO-STEP technology that has been widely adopted within the steel construction industry. CIS/2 is an early success story of broad use of a product model for both data exchange and improving the productivity of those companies taking advantage of its capabilities. Here, we review the history of CIS/2, the methods and issues arising from its deployment, the benefits it has thus far realized and the research issues these activities have identified.

title: WiMAX Overview and System Performance
abstract: In this paper, the performance of WiMax network with DL SIMO, DL MIMO and UL SIMO is analyzed via system simulations. Two data traffic models are considered, namely Web browsing (HTTP) and full buffer sessions, operating in multi path fading channels such as the ITU pedestrian-B and vehicular-A channels. The control channel coverage and reliability of WiMAX using realistic overhead is also analyzed in this paper.

title: An Object-Oriented Product Data Management
abstract: Product Data Management (PDM) system enables the management of the entire product lifecycle and related information about its design, its manufacturing and its in-service. The interest of using the object-oriented approach for modeling, specifying and implementing PDM systems is detailed. Then an implementation method is proposed in order to clarify the instantiation of UML diagrams into database entities. Finally the system is implemented on J2EE platform. The used UML diagrams for the modeling and integration of product, process, and resource data is detailed in order to argue the interest of an object-oriented approach in such kind of PDM implementation.

title: On the Selection and Assignment with Minimum Quantity Commitments
abstract: Traditional selection and assignment problems analyze how to select and assign the suppliers to meet demands within minimum total costs. The maximum capacity and the fixed selection costs are two major restrictions imposed on suppliers, and extensively studied in literature.

title: A product information modeling framework for product lifecycle management
abstract: The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) concept holds the promise of seamlessly integrating all the information produced throughout all phases of a product's life cycle to everyone in an organization at every managerial and technical level, along with key suppliers and customers. PLM systems are tools that implement the PLM concept. As such, they need the capability to serve up the information referred to above, and they need to ensure the cohesion and traceability of product data. We describe a product information-modeling framework that we believe can support the full range of PLM information needs. The framework is based on the NIST Core Product Model (CPM) and its extensions, the Open Assembly Model (OAM), the Design-Analysis Integration model (DAIM) and the Product Family Evolution Model (PFEM). These are abstract models with general semantics, with the specific semantics about a particular domain to be embedded within the usage of the models for that domain. CPM represents the product's function, form and behavior, its physical and functional decompositions, and the relationships among these concepts. An extension of CPM provides a way to associate design rationale with the product. OAM defines a system level conceptual model and the associated hierarchical assembly relationships. DAIM defines a Master Model of the product and a series of abstractions called Functional Models-one for each domain-specific aspect of the product-and two transformations, called idealization and mapping, between the master model and each functional model. PFEM extends the representation to families of products and their components; it also extends design rationale to the capture of the rationale for the evolution of the families. The framework is intended to: (1) capture product, design rationale, assembly, and tolerance information from the earliest conceptual design stage-where designers deal with the function and performance of products-to the full lifecycle; (2) facilitate the semantic interoperability of next-generation CAD/CAE/CAM systems; and (3) capture the evolution of products and product families. The relevance of our framework to PLM systems is that any data component in the framework can be accessed directly by a PLM system, providing fine-grained access to the product's description and design rationale.

title: The shortest route cut and fill problem in linear topological structure
abstract: In this paper, we study the Shortest Route Cut and Fill (SRCF) problem where a fleet of vehicles with fixed capacities travel between cut and fill points to finish all cut and fill requirements so that the travel time of the fleet is minimized. We state and classify the SRCF problem and present a complete view of its computational complexities with NP-hardness proof for the basic linear topological structure. Moreover, a simple cycle-based optimization method is proposed to solve the SRCF in linear time complexity, for the version of single vehicle in linear structure without time window constraint.