Advances in Computers and Information in Engineering Research

First principles process planning for computer-aided nanomanufacturing -- Large-scale topology optimization on high-performance computers -- Accelerating multi-body simulation and visualization with GPU computing -- Advances on the constitutive characterization of composites via multiaxial robotic testing and design optimization -- Meshless methods for full field displacement and strain measurement -- Recent advances in the nearest-nodes finite element method (NN-FEM) -- Product development by self-organized virtual communities -- Systematic enablers for advanced product design support -- Hybrid design tools for design and engineering processing -- Interactive virtual prototyping for improving the design of consumer products -- Digital human in engineering and bioengineering applications -- Concurrent product design and assembly sequence planning: a comprehensive framework -- Processing free form objects within a product development process framework -- Surrogate modeling with non-uniform rational B-splines -- Algorithms for layered manufacturing in image space -- Knowledge management for engineering: a web science perspective -- Manufacturing capability knowledge modeling for intelligent manufacturing systems -- Analyzing properties of stochastic business processes by model checking -- Virtual reality based on interactive mechanical simulation for design improvement -- Knowledge capture in virtual reality and beyond -- Create and experience compelling scenarios in VR: a hardware and software system architecture.