Workshop on Features in Design and Manufacturing; Los Angeles, California; February 1988

本研讨会将讨论设计和制造中的特征问题。可以给出特征来描述设计的物理和功能方面，或者可以从设计中提取特征来描述制造过程。特征、设计和制造之间的关系将从几个角度来描述，包括1)设计生成，2)产品模型，3)设计数据库，表示和显示，4)设计分析，5)制造，6)工艺规划和装配。研讨会将集中讨论有关特征的识别、其严格的形式描述以及这些描述在设计和制造的计算方法中的应用的问题。将讨论当前有关特征在设计和制造自动化中所起的作用的问题，并概述未来研究的方向。讲习班特别及时，因为在实体建模、数据库和语法技术等领域取得了越来越多的正式成果，表明可以通过计算来处理设计和制造问题。人们认为，通过将来自不同设计和制造领域的具有正式观点的研究人员聚集在一起，分享想法，自动化设计和制造的目标将大大推进。研讨会计划于1988年初在加州大学洛杉矶分校举行。

This workshop will address the issue of features in design and manufacturing. Features can be given to describe physical and functional aspects of designs or can be extracted from designs to describe manufacturing processes. The relationships among features, designs, and manufacturing will be described from several points of view including 1) design generation, 2) product models, 3) design databases, representation and display, 4) design analysis, 5) manufacturing, and 6) process planning and assembly. The workshop will focus on problems concerning the identification of features, their rigorous formal characterization, and the application of these descriptions in computational approaches to design and manufacturing. Current questions concerning the role features play in the automation of design and manufacturing will be address and directions for future research will be outlined. The workshop is especially timely owing to a growing number of formal results in areas such as solid modelling, databases, and grammatical techniques that suggest that design and manufacturing can be approached computationally. It is felt that the goal of automated design and manufacturing will be significantly advanced by bringing together researchers with a formal point of view from different design and manufacturing areas to share ideas. The workshop is planned for early 1988 at the University of California Los Angeles.