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Because of its effectiveness and great potential in product design, concurrent engineering (CE) is attracting great interest from both industry and academia. The 13 research papers in this volume provide a current overview of progress in CE. Divided into two parts, Part I primarily focuses on methodology and applications of CE, while Part II discusses product design and information modeling. Among the specific topics are constraint management in design fusion, using negotiation in DAI to support CE, product data sharing with STEP, product modeling and data exchange, and explanation in concurrent design. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.