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Strategic Action Line LI1: Personalised Production
The objective of this chapter is to describe the action line related to Personalised production (LI1). In particular, this chapter proposes research and innovation priorities aimed at promoting industrial syst...
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Article
Case-based tuning of a metaheuristic algorithm exploiting sensitivity analysis and design of experiments for reverse engineering applications
Due to its capacity to evolve in a large solution space, the Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm has shown very promising results for the Reverse Engineering of editable CAD geometries including parametric 2D s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Geometric Analysis of Product CAD Models to Support Design for Assembly
Design For Assembly (DFA) aims at improving product design facilitating assembly phases via the application of evaluation me...
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Article
A Web-Based Solution Supporting CAD Assembly Model Exploration and Analysis
In the last decades, digital 3D models have substituted 2D technical drawings for the design and development of mechanical products. This results in a huge amount of CAD (computer-aided design) models availabl...
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Simulated annealing-based fitting of CAD models to point clouds of mechanical parts’ assemblies
This paper introduces a new fitting approach to allow an efficient part-by-part reconstruction or update of editable CAD models fitting the point cloud of a digitized mechanical parts
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sensitivity Analysis for Simulated Annealing-Based Fitting of CAD Models to Point Clouds of Digitized Parts
This paper addresses the way a simulated annealing-based fitting strategy can be enhanced by leveraging a sensitivity analysis able to characterize the impact of the variations in the parameters of a CAD model...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
3D Dynamic Hand Gestures Recognition Using the Leap Motion Sensor and Convolutional Neural Networks
Defining methods for the automatic understanding of gestures is of paramount importance in many application contexts and in Virtual Reality applications for creating more natural and easy-to-use human-computer...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploring the Benefits of the Virtual Reality Technologies for Assembly Retrieval Applications
Virtual reality technologies offer several intuitive and natural interactions that can be used to enhance and increase awareness during the different phases of the product design, such as the virtual prototypi...
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Article
Microzooplankton composition under the sea ice and in the open waters in Terra Nova Bay (Antarctica)
The aim of this study was to describe the microzooplankton composition under the sea ice in the Ross Sea (Antarctica) and its possible role as seed for the open-water community. We compared the under-sea-ice d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
CAD Assembly Retrieval and Browsing
This paper presents a method for the retrieval and inspection of similar CAD assemblies in a database according to a user query. The method exploits the information on components’ shape and relationships (e.g...
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‘End to end’ planktonic trophic web and its implications for the mussel farms in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, Italy)
The Mar Piccolo is a semi-enclosed basin subject to different natural and anthropogenic stressors. In order to better understand plankton dynamics and preferential carbon pathways within the planktonic trophic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ontology-Driven Visual Browsing of Historical Industrial Archives
The paper presents the outcomes of a regional project funded by the European Commission, aiming at identifying new strategies in the management and access of historical industrial archives. The study addresses...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Ontology for the Identification of the most Appropriate Risk Management Methodology
Methods and technologies for risk management have been developed and consolidated over time in different sectors and to meet various needs. Recently, ISO organization published a set of documents for risk asse...
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Chapter
Styling Features for Industrial Design
This chapter focuses on the concept of shape features for industrial design of product models, intended as a means for conveying a specific design intent; in geometric modelling the feature-based approach aims...
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Article
Preserving car stylists’ design intent through an ontology
This paper presents a first step in the elaboration of a knowledge-based modelling environment supporting the conceptual design phase of an industrial product; more precisely, car styling is the considered app...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Context Enabled Semantic Granularity
In this paper we propose a powerful ontology driven method that eases the browsing of any repository of information resources described by an ontology: we provide a flexible semantic granularity method for the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Semantic Granularity for the Semantic Web
In this paper we describe a framework for the application of semantic granularities to the Semantic Web. Given a data source and an ontology formalizing qualities which describe the source, we define a dynamic gr...
