Global Perspective for Competitive Enterprise, Economy and Ecology

To Calculate the Sequence-Dependent Setup Time for a Single-Machine Problem with Uncertain Job Arriving Time.- A Two-Level Genetic Algorithm for Scheduling in Assembly Islands with Fixed-Position Layouts.- Exact Controllability for Dependent Siphons in S3PMR29.- A New MIP Test for S3PGR2.- Simplifying Abrasive Waterjet Cutting Process for Rapid Manufacturing.- Hybrid System Supporting Flexible Design of Flat Rolling Production Processes in Collaborative Environment.- Organization and Interoperation of Engineering Design Services in Service-Oriented Architecture.- Taxonomy and Attributes of Business Collaborative Models: an Exploratory Study.- Applying Petri Net to Analyze a Multi-Agent System Feasibility-a Process Mining Approach.- The Impact on Global Logistics Integration System to Concurrent Collaborative Process.- Using DEA and GA Algorithm for Finding an Optimal Design Chain Partner Combination.- Adaptive Architecture for Collaborative Environment.- Conceptual Modeling of Design Chain Management towards Product Lifecycle Management.- Data Persistence in P2P Backup Systems.- Using DEA Approach to Develop the Evaluation and Priority Ranking Methodology of NPD Projects.- An Exploration Study of Data-mining Driven PLM Implementation Approach.- Exploring the Links between Competitive Advantage and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Upgrade Decision: A Case Study Approach.- Development of a Cost Estimating Framework for Nanotechnology-Based Products.- An Analogy Based Estimation Framework for Design Rework Efforts.- Greening Economy as a Key Solution to the Economic Crisis.- A Study on Evaluation of Environmental Effectiveness of Manufacturing Processes.- Understanding the Waste Net: A Method for Waste Elimination Prioritization in Product Development.- The Green Product Eco-design Approach and System Complying with Energy Using Products (EuP) Directive.- Developing an ISO 14048-Based EuP Integrated Service Platform for Evaluating Environment Impacts and Supporting Eco-Design in Taiwan.- Systematic Lean Techniques for Improving Honeycomb Bonding Process.- Expanding Environmental Information Management: Meeting Future Requirements in the Electronics Industry.- Rule-Based Recursive Selective Disassembly Sequence Planning for Green Design.- Investigation on Evaluation of Design Decision for Door-Shaped Structure by Using Systematic Knowledge Analysis.- Knowledge Extraction System from Reports in Fabrication Workshops.- Knowledge based Sales Forecasting Model for Non-linear Trend Products.- A Negotiation Strategy of Collaborative Maintenance Chain and Its Multi-Agent System Design and Development.- Develop Non-Exhaustive Overlapping Partitioning Clustering for Patent Analysis Based on the Key Phrases Extracted Using Ontology Schema and Fuzzy Adaptive Resonance Theory.- Performance Evaluation for an ERP System in Case of System Failures.- An Approach Based on Rough Sets Theory to Design Space Exploration of Complex Systems.- The Set-Based Multi-Objective Satisfactory Design for the Initial Design with Uncertainties in Collaborative Engineering.- Minimizing Makespan for Server Testing with Limited Resource.- Exchange of Heterogeneous Feature Data in Concurrent Engineering and Collaborative Design Environments.- An Ergonomic Assembly Workstation Design Using Axiomatic Design Theory.- Heterogeneous Material-based Biomedical Product Development.- Research on Variable Parameter Set in Complex Multi domain Physical System and Its Repeatedly Simulating Arithmetic.- Two Stage Ant Coordination Mechanisms for Sequencing Problem in a Mixed Model Assembly Line.- A Study of Design by Customers: Areas of Application.- Dual Lines Extraction for Identifying Single Line Drawing from Paper-Based Over Traced Freehand Sketch.- A Formal Representation of Technical Systems.- Design Knowledge Assets Management with Visual Design Progress and Evaluation.- Product Redesign Using TRIZ and Contradictive Information from the Taguchi Method.- Toward Full ...

Shou-Yan Chou has been the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers and has also been on the editorial boards of a number of international journals. He has been involved in the organisation of the annual CE Conference Series since 2003. He works at the National Taiwan University of Science & Technology.

Amy Trappey is an ISPE board member and is the general co-chair of CE2009, as well as having been the program co-chair for CE2008. She works at the National Taiwan University of Technology.

Jerzy Pokojski is the author of Concepts and Applications in Engineering (Springer) and will host CE2010 in Poland.

Shana Smith is an active member of the virtual design research area, and has extensive teaching and research experience in Asia and North America. She works at the National Taiwan University.