With decision support systems, decision-makers analyse data in data marts extracted from production bases. The data-mart schema design is generally performed by expert designers (administrator or computer specialist). With data-driven, requirement-driven or hybrid-driven approaches, this designer builds a data-mart defining facts (analysis subjects) and analysis axes. This process, based on dat...

The layout of chemical plants has to take into consideration boundary conditions and requirements of many different engineering fields. In order to assist the design engineer at an early stage during the extended basic engineering, a system for computer aided plant design has been developed. It contains modules for •extended equipment models including equipment related piping and areas for main...

Existing knowledge-based CADICAM systems do not support creativity since they are based on fixed vocabularies which contain a set of pre-defined functional and design features, and use these to define a library of standard solutions which the designer can use to compose designs automatically. However, the essence of creative design is to create new features and adapt them to new problems. Our s...

Styling design is becoming a crucial mark for the success of consumer goods on the global market. Computer Aided Styling (CAS) and Computer Aided Aesthetic Design (CAAD), but also manual work on physical models are the methods for creating optimal aesthetic shapes. The BriteEuRam project FIORES covering 12 partners including automotive companies, styling companies, system suppliers, and researc...

non-destructive ultrasonic testing is one of the methods utilized to evaluate quality of agricultural produce. transducers used in this method are made for basically industrial applications. since ultrasonic attenuation of waves in agricultural produce is very high, industrial transducers cannot be used in agriculture and needs to be modified. this is done with horns that concentrate energy on ...