Table of Contents: Vol. 4, No. 6

ISSN 1686-4360

Modeling Heterogeneous Objects in CAD………………………………………………………………………………...731 X. J. Wu, W. J. Liu and M. Y. Wang                                                           Winner of the 2007 Best Paper Award

Virtual Shoe Test Bed: A Computer-Aided Engineering Tool for Supporting Shoe Design………………………….…...741 P. Azariadis, V. Moulianitis, S. Alemany, J. C. González, P. de Jong, M. van der Zande and D. Brands

Designing Smart Skins for Adaptive Environments: A fuzzy logic approach to smart house design………………..….751 S.-Y. Chen and M.-L. Chiu

3D Texture Mapping for Rapid Manufacturing…………………………………………………………………………….......761 Y. Chen

Deriving Functionality from 3D Shapes: Ontology Driven Annotation and Retrieval………………………………...........773 E. Camossi, F. Giannini and M. Monti

A Hybrid Parting Method Based on Iterative Surface Growth Algorithm and Geometric Mouldability…………….…....783 Z. Zhao, J. Y. H. Fuh and A. Y. C. Nee

A Semantic Blend Feature Definition…………………………………………………………………………………...…......795 P. J. Nyirenda, R. Bidarra and W. F. Bronsvoort

Strip Approximation Using Developable Bézier Patches: A Local Optimization Approach……………………………....807 C.-H. Chu, C. C. L. Wang and C.-R. Tsai

An Integrated 2D and 3D Shape-based Search Framework and Applications………………………………………….....817 P. Jiantao and K. Ramani

3D Mesh Segmentation Methodologies for CAD applications…………………………………………………………........827 A. Agathos, I. Pratikakis, S. Perantonis, N. Sapidis and P. Azariadis

The Difference between two Feature Models……………………………………………………………………………........843 M. Sypkens Smit and W. F. Bronsvoort

GPU for CAD……………………………………………………………………………………………………………...….......853 T. R. Kurfess, T. M. Tucker, K. Aravalli and P. M. Meghashyam

Innovation: The Living Laboratory Perspective…………………………………………………………………………..........863 A. Kusiak

Dynamic Product Modeling with Inter-Features Associations: Comparing Customization and Automation…………...877 B. Lamarche and L. Rivest