In engineering design, the end goal is the creation of an artifact,
product, system, or process that fulfills some functional
requirements at some desired level of performance. As such,
knowledge of functionality is essential in a wide variety of tasks in
engineering activities, including modeling, generation, modification,
visualisation, explanation, evaluation, diagnosis and repair of these
artifacts and processes. A formal representation of functionality is
essential for supporting any of these activities on computers. The
goal of this special issue is to bring together the state of
knowledge of representing functionality in engineering applications,
both from the engineering and the AI research community.
Topics that may be addressed include:
- representations of function;
- reasoning about and with function;
- engineering applications.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least two expert
reviewers, and a selection for publication made on the basis of these
reviews.
Information about the format and style required for
AIEDAM papers can be found at
www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/Instructions/.
However, note that all
submissions for special issues go to the Guest Editors, and not to the
Editor in Chief.
Important dates:
Intent to submit (with Title & Abstract) As soon as possible
Submission deadline for full papers: 24 May 2004 ***
Reviews due 15 August 2004
Notification and reviews to authors: 15 September 2004
Revised version submission deadline: 15 November 2004
Final submission deadline: 1 December 2004
Guest editors:
Please direct all enquiries and submissions to the guest editors:
Robert Stone
Basic Engineering Department
University of Missouri-Rolla
102A Basic Engineering Building
Rolla, Missouri 65409
Email: rstone [at] umr.edu
Amaresh Chakrabarti
Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore, 560012, India.
Email: ac123 [at] cpdm.iisc.ernet.in
