PLEASE NOTE: The Publications System provided by the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division (MSID) has moved to: http://www.mel.nist.gov/msidlibrary/publications.html. The pages below are maintained for archival purposes only.

PUBLICATIONS listed in reverse chronological order

1997

Joshua Lubell: "SGML on the WEB: A Tale of Two Sites," Proceedings of SGML on the Web: A Tale of Two Sites, Washington, DC, December 8 - 11, 1997.

Venkat Allada, Shaw Feng and Steven Ray: "Development of a Message Model to Support Integrated Design and Manufacturing," Proceedings of International Conference on Industrial Engineering Applications & Practice, San Diego, CA, November 12-15, 1997.

Scott Chase: "Logic Based Design Modeling with Shape Algebras," Automation in Construction, 6:4, October, 1997, PP.311-322.

Craig Schlenoff, Amy Knutilla and Steven Ray: "Proceedings of the First Process Specification Language (PSL) Roundtable," NISTIR 6081, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Craig Schlenoff, Amy Knutilla and Steven Ray: "Requirements for Modeling Manufacturing Process: A New Perspective," Proceedings of Design Engineering Conferences, Sacremento, CA, September 1997.

Simon Szykman, Linda Schmidt and Harshawardhan Shetty: "Improving the Efficiency of Simulated Annealing Optimization Through Detection of Productive Search," Proceedings of 1997 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences (23rd Design Automation Conference), Paper No. DETC97/DAC-3980, Sacramento, CA, September, 1997.

J. William Murdock, Simon Szykman and Ram Sriram: "An Information Modeling Framework to Support Design Databases and Repositories," Proceedings of the 1997 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences (Design for Manufacturing Conference), Paper No. DETC97/DFM-4373, Sacremento, CA, September, 1997.

Kevin Lyons, Scott Angster and Sankar Jayaram: Chapter 6: Virtual Environments for Design and Manufacture, Concurrent Engineering - The Agenda for Success, Res Studies Press Ltd., 1997.

Kevin Lyons, Venkat Rajan and Raj Sreerangam: "Representations and Methodologies for Assembly Modeling," NISTIR 6059, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Albert Jones and Charles McLean: "Industrial Need: Production Management Standards," NISTIR 6058, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Joshua Lubell: "The Application Protocol Information Base World Wide Web Gateway," Proceedings of the 1997 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Sacramento, California, September 14-17, 1997.

Michael Gruninger, Craig Schlenoff and Amy Knutilla: "Using Process Requirements as the Basis for the Creation and Evaluation of Process Ontologies for Enterprise Modeling," ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, Vol. 18, No. 3, August, 1997.

James Nell: "Standardization and Enterprise Integration," NISTIR 6049, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

David Flater: "CIM Framework Experience Report for 1996," NISTIR 6057, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Simon Szykman and William Regli: "Network-Centric CAD: A Research Planning Workshop," Proceedings of Network-Centric CAD: A Research Planning Workshop, Gaithersburg, Maryland, December 3-4, 1996.

Don Libes: "Managing Tcl's Namespaces Collaboratively," Proceedings of 5th Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop '97, Boston, MA, July 14-17, 1997.

Don Libes: "Writing a Tcl Extension in Only Seven Years," Proceedings of 5th Annual Tcl/Tk Worshop '97, Boston, MA, July 14-17, 1997.

David Flater, Edward Barkmeyer and Evan Wallace: "State Models for Jobs and Job Supervisors," NISTIR 6037, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Mike Iuliano: "The Role of Product Data Management in the Manufacturing Engineering ToolKit," NISTIR 6042, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Shigeki Umeda and Albert Jones: "Virtual Supply Chain Management: A Re-Engineering Approach Using Discrete Event Simulation," Proceedings of SCI '97 World Conference, , 1997, July, 1997.

Shigeki Umeda and Albert Jones: "Simulation in Japan: State-of-the-Art Update," NISTIR 6040, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Ronald Giachetti: "Evaluating Engineering Functions Over Imprecise Quantities," Proceedings of 7th International Fuzzy Systems Association Congress,Prague, Czech Republic, June 25-29, 1997.

David W. Thomas: "Integration Strategies for the Reactive Scheduling System," NISTIR 6171, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Jung-Hyun Han: "On Multiple Interpretations," Proceedings of ACM Solid Modeling Symposium, Atlanta, GA, May 14-16, 1997.

William Regli: "Feature-Based Similarity Assessment of Solid Models," Proceedings of ACM Solid Modeling Conference, Atlanta, GA, May 14-16, 1997.

Robert Ivester: "Enhancing Recursive Constraint Bounding for Improved Robustness, Functionality, and Flexibility," Proceedings of 3rd Agile Manufacturing Conference, Albuquerque, MN, May 28 - 29, 1997.

Simon Frechette: "STEP Implementations: Solid Model Exchange Results in the AutoSTEP Project," NISTIR 6021, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Charles McLean and Swee Leong: "Industrial Need: Production System Engineering Integration," NISTIR 6019, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Lisa Carnahan, Gary Carver, Martha Gray, Mike Hogan, Ted Hopp, Jeffrey Horlick, Gordon Lyon and Elena Messina: "Metrology for Information Technology (IT)," NISTIR 6025, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Ronald Giachetti and R. Young: "Analysis of Variability in the Design of Wood Products Under Imprecision," Proceedings of the 6th FUZZ-IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Barcelona, Spain, July 1-5, 1997, Volume 3, 1203-1208.

Howard Moncarz: "A Context for Interoperability Standards for the Footwear Industry," NISTIR 6006, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Scott Chase: "Emergence, Creativity, and Computational Tractability in Shape Grammers," Proceedings of CHI '97, Atlanta, GA, March 23, 1997.

Mike Iuliano, Albert Jones and Shaw Feng: "An Analysis of AP213 for Usage as a Process Plan Exchange Format," NISTIR 5992, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

William Regli and Daniel M. Gains: "A Repository of Designs for Process and Assembly Planning," NISTIR 5982, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Ronald Giachetti and Kevin Jurrens: "Manufacturing Evaluation of Designs: A Knowledge-Based Approach," Proceedings of 3rd Conference on Information Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC, March 1-5, 1997.

Simon Szykman: "Optimization as a Driver for Design Space Exploration," Proceedings of the 1997 Optimization in Industry, Palm Coast, Florida, March, 1997, pp.189-194.

James Fowler: "Systems Integration for Manufacturing Applications Technical Program Plan," NISTIR 5986, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Mike Pratt: Quartic Supercyclides I: Basic Theory, Published in Computer Aided Geometric Design, North-Holland Publishing Co., Volume 14, No. 7, 1997, 671 - 692.

Don Libes: "Automation and Testing of Character-Graphic Programs," "Software - Practice & Experience", John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, England, Vol. 27(2), February, 1997, p. 123-137.

Frank Riddick and Anuk M. Loureau: "Models for Integrating Scheduling and Shop Floor Data Collection," Proceedings of The 16th IASTED International Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, February 17-19, 1997.

David Flater: "Programmer's Guide to the 1996 Demo Executor," NISIR 5980, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

David Flater: "Generalized Message Passing in a Virtual Reality Application," Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, Vol. 9, No. 9, February, 1997.

Sharon Kemmerer: "Initial Manufacturing Exchange Specification (IMES), IMES Concept Document for Manufacturing Systems Integration," NISTIR 5978, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

William Regli and Daniel M. Gaines: "A National Repository for Design and Process Planning," Proceedings of the National Science Foundation Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, Seattle, WA, January 6-9, 1997.

Peter Wilson: "On the Transition of KIF/Frame Ontologies to EXPRESS," NISTIR 5957, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Edward Barkmeyer, Neil Christopher, Shaw Feng, James Fowler, Simon Frechette, Albert Jones, Kevin Jurrens, Charles McLean, Mike Pratt, Harry A. Scott, M. K. Senehi, Ram Sriram and Evan Wallace: "SIMA Reference Architecture Part I: Activity Models," NISTIR 5939, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.

Ronald Giachetti: "A Decision Support Systems for Material and Manufacturing Process Selection," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, January, 1997.

Ronald Giachetti: "Manufacturing Process and Material Selection During Conceptual Design," Proceedings of the 6th Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Miami, FL, may 17-18, 1997, January, 1997, 772-777.

Ronald Giachetti: "Evaluating Engineering Equations with Imprecise Quantitites," Proceedings of the Seventh International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, June 25-29, 1997, Volume 2, 150-155.

Ronald Giachetti: "A Parametric Representation of Fuzzy Numbers and Their Arithmetic Operators," Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Volume 92; No. 2, January, 1997.

Don Libes: "Tcl/Tk-based Agents for Mail and News Notification or "A Tale of Two Biffs"," Software - Practice & Experience, John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, England, Vol.27(4), p.481-493, 1997.

S. Gorti and Ram Sriram: "From Symbol to Form: A Framework for Conceptual Design," Journal of Computer-Aided Design, 1997.

William Regli: "Internet-Enabled Computer-Aided Design," IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 1, Number 1, pp.39-51, 1997.

Mark Schwabacher and A. Gelsey: "Multi-level Simulation and Numerical Optimization of Complex Engineering Designs," Journal of Aircraft, pending, 1997.

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