Many research projects have defined applications that are claimed to operate in a MANet environment. Consider for instance the notion of a distributed file system which is the concern of a large number of these applications. It appears that most of the proposed solutions require a central server that makes it possible to ensure data consistency, by storing copies of the data from time to time, ...

Mass Customization (MC) as a modern competitive strategy enables enterprises to act in dynamic markets with high customer satisfaction. But, for a successful implementation of this management concept, effective information logistics is essential. Ontologies are considered as a promising approach for optimizing inter-organizational and distributed cooperation. Although there have been several pu...

We present a new superquadrics based object representation strategy for automotive parts in this paper. Starting from a 3D watertight surface model, a part decomposition step is first performed to segment the original multi-part objects into their constituent single parts. Each single part is then represented by a superquadric. The originalities of this approach include first, our approach can ...