CALL FOR PAPERS Journal: Computer Aided Design, Elsevier Science Guest Editors: Gerd Holbach, Technical University of Berlin , Germany Panagiotis Kaklis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Xiuzi Ye, Zhejiang University, People’s Republic of China
Computer-Aided Ship Design: Current Status and Future Trends Dedicated to Professor Horst Nowacki, on the occasion of his 75th birthday Computer Aided Ship Design (CASD) embodies the evolution of traditional Ship Design techniques in the Information-Technology (IT) era. Coexistence of a strong tradition with day-today advancing hardware and softwaretechnologies create an environment fertile for innovation. This environment should be exploited by researchers, educators and designers for developing a new generation of robust and efficient ship-design methodologies and ships along with powerful and user-friendly software products. Professor Emeritus Horst Nowacki provided the CAD community with pioneering contributions by creatively embedding CAD in Ship Design. His internationally recognized academic and professional career, both in the US (1964-74: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Dept. Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering) and Europe (1974-98: Technical University of Berlin, Department of Transportation Engineering & Applied Mechanics), offers a nowadays rare paradigm of equilibrated theoretical- and application-oriented research, ranging from curve/surface fairness criteria and geometric-continuity to CFD-optimized ship-design and product-data standards. We dare asserting that a strong pervasive characteristic in the whole of Nowacki’s work is INTEGRATION, which is further revealed by his current research activities on the history of shipbuilding and ship design methods at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. The Guest-Editors of the proposed JCAD special issue would be happy to contribute to the celebration of Professor Nowacki’s 75th birthday by working towards achieving a representative sample of high-quality papers, either of theoretical or applied nature, that illustrate the current forefront of research, education and practice in CASD while enforcing the view that INTEGRATION should be a key element for future success in this area. A non-exhaustive list of specific topics, that our special issue has keen interest to deal with include:
CASD as a multi-objective constrained optimization process Integrating CASD with CAx (e.g, CFD, FEM) tools Virtual Environments for CASD Collaborative and distributed environments for CASD The effect of CASD on company structures CASD for comfort and safety
CASD for environmental protection Design methodologies and geometric modeling techniques for CASD Space and facility planning and layout for CASD CASD data standards, management and exchange
The issue will be integrated with an invited article by Professor Nowacki on the evolutiom of ship-design methods from historic times to the modern IT era. Submissions Timeline February 28th, 2009: submission deadline April 15th, 2009: 1st decision notification June 1st, 2009: submission deadline for revised papers July 1st, 2009: final decision notification Submission Instructions All prospective authors are invited to obtain early feedback on possible submissions by e-mailing an abstract to one of the Guest Editors. All papers will be rigorously refereed. Submission of a paper to this special issue of JCAD implies that no strongly similar paper is already accepted or will be submitted to any other conference or journal. Authors should consult the "Instructions for Authors", which are available online and printed at the back of most issues of Computer-Aided Design, for information about preparation of their manuscripts. For this special issue, manuscripts should be submitted through the Elsevier publication management system for the CAD Journal: http://ees.elsevier.com/cad/ Guest Editors: Dr.-Ing. Gerd Holbach Prof. of Design and Operation of Maritime Systems Technical University of Berlin Sekr. SG. 6 Salzufer 17-19 D-10587 Berlin
[email protected] Dr.-Ing. Panagiotis Kaklis Professor, Computer-Aided Ship Design School of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (SNAME) National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Heroon Polytechneiou 9 Zografou 157 73, Athens, Greece
[email protected] Dr. Xiuzi Ye Cheung Kong Chair Professor State Key Laboratory of CAD & CG Zhejiang University, 310027 Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China
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