Global Perspective for Competitive Enterprise, Economy and Ecology: Proceedings of the 16th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering

Global Perspective for Competitive Enterprise, Economy and Ecology addresses the general theme of the Concurrent Engineering (CE) 2009 Conference – the need for global advancements in the areas of competitive enterprise, economy and ecology.The proceedings contain 84 papers, which vary from the theoretical and conceptual to the practical and industrial. The content of this volume reflects the genuine variety of issues related to current CE methods and phenomena. Global Perspective for Competitive Enterprise, Economy and Ecology will therefore enable researchers, industry practitioners, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates to build their own view of the inherent problems and methods in CE.

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.