期刊名称：COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Computer-Aided Design is an established international journal that provides engineers, designers and
computer scientists in academia and industry with key papers on research and developments in the application of computers to the design process.
Computer-Aided Design invites papers reporting new research and novel or particularly significant applications within a wide range of topics, including:
CAD in conceptual design
Design automation and optimization
AI in design
Geometric methods and applied computational geometry
Surface and solid modelling
Parametric, constraint-based, and feature modelling
CAD interfaces to testing and analysis, including finite-element methods
Design and planning for manufacturing, including numerical control, rapid prototyping and robotics
Design and planning for assembly, maintainability, recycling etc
Engineering data management and exchange, including design databases, component selection, product models, and life-cycle modelling
Space and facilities planning and layout
CAD user interfaces, including computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality
Significant benchmarks, APIs, formats and standards in CAD
Contributions are acceptable across a wide range of disciplines, including:
Mechanical and production engineering
Civil engineering, architecture and building
Industrial and aesthetic design
Papers in areas such as electrical and chemical engineering are also welcome provided they have a significant geometric component, and present developments likely to be of interest across other areas of CAD; Computer-Aided Design does not cover topics such as logic and process design.
Instructions to Authors
1. Scope
The topics covered by Computer-Aided Design are listed in the Scope statement found on page ii of every issue and at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cad. However, CAD is a constantly developing field and authors are advised to consult recent issues of the journal to see the sort of articles that the Computer-Aided Design is currently carrying.
2. Types of article
Computer-Aided Design publishes research, application, and review papers.
For explanations of these categories see page ii of any issue, or http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cad. Reviews are particularly welcome. Full papers are normally around 25 manuscript pages, including tables and figures; technical notes, usually under 10 manuscript pages in length, will also be considered.
3. Originality & Copyright
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, it will not be offered elsewhere while under consideration for Computer-Aided Design, its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to transfer copyright. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. A letter will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be provided.
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases, which can be obtained from the Author Gateway's Guide to Publishing with Elsevier at http://authors.elsevier.com.
Material already published in a language other than English, and material that has received a limited local dissemination may be considered, provided that the full circumstances are brought to the Editors' attention.
NB: Papers submitted to Computer-Aided Design may also be posted on the Computer Science Preprint Server at http://www.compscipreprints.com. Such posting on the Computer Science Preprint Server is in conformity with Elsevier's copyright policy and in no way conflicts with submission to Computer-Aided Design.
4. Essential features of manuscripts
Papers should explain their authors' contribution to the field of CAD in the simplest possible language. The text of research papers must include:
A. A concise and up-to-date review of the most relevant international literature, supported by citations. If appropriate, the capabilities of relevant commercial CAD software should also be briefly assessed. In the region of 15-30 references are typical for a research paper.
B. A statement of the novel aspects of the work being reported, explaining clearly how it differs from the best recent research and from current practice. The Editors will not ask referees or readers to work out for themselves what is new in the work.
C. A convincing explanation of the way that the work improves on previous methods. Alternative or 'me-too' approaches to solved problems will not be considered. The Editors are looking for papers that will impact mainstream CAD system development.
D. A clear indication of the robustness and practicality of the methods reported. System architectures and other unimplemented proposals will not normally be considered.
Aspects C and D will be typically supported by material such as proofs of correctness, analyses of complexity, examples and case studies, together with timings or other performance measures. Wherever possible examples should be taken from real industrial practice or publicly available benchmarks (such as the Drexel features repository at http://repos.mcs.drexel.edu). Alternatively, comparison with existing techniques can be powerfully made by using previous authors' datasets, with their permission.
The requirements for application or review papers are similar to the above.
The Editors will be happy to discuss proposed submissions of these types.
Authors must accept full responsibility for the accuracy of the contents of their paper.
5. Use of English
Authors should write in clear and concise English, using a spellchecker to ensure that manuscripts conform to either UK or US spelling (the OED and Webster's are definitive). Accepted manuscripts will be proofread for English idiom. Manuscripts are rarely rejected just because of poor English; however, it is often difficult to get such manuscripts satisfactorily refereed, and so authors who are not native English speakers are strongly advised to find a native English speaker to check their manuscript before submission.
Authors should ensure that they write at the correct level for the journal's readers. Manuscripts should not start with a justification of the whole subject of CAD, nor should technologies such as object-oriented programming, GUIs or NURBS, which are today's defaults, be over-emphasized.
Authors are strongly advised to study recent issues of Computer-Aided Design to check the level and style of accepted papers.
6. Format of manuscripts
All manuscripts should include the following sections:
A. The title should be short, specific and informative. Authors who are not native English speakers should probably seek confirmation that the title is idiomatic.
B. The authors' names. Make it clear who is the Corresponding Author, and include his/her address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address on the manuscript.
C. A self-contained abstract of approximately 100 words, outlining in a single paragraph the aims, scope and conclusions of the paper.
D. The text, divided as simply as possible under numbered headings, which should usually follow the accepted sequence: introduction and literature review, theory and implementation, examples, results and conclusions.
Abbreviations and acronyms must be clearly defined in full on first use, and should only be used for unwieldy terms and names which occur frequently (say 5 times or more) in the manuscript.
Equations should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in parentheses on the right hand side of the page. The meaning of all symbols should be explained when they are first used. Set mathematical variables in italics, constants in roman type, and matrices and vectors in bold type.
SI units are preferred.
E. Any acknowledgements.
F. A list of references, presented in the style of the journal (see recent issues), including authors' names, journal or book title, year of publication, volume number, page number, editors, publishers and place of publication.
Ensure that all references are cited. It is courteous to use the authors' names (or "first author, et al" etc) when citing references. Block citation of many papers (e.g. "[1,2,3,4]") often indicates insufficient explanation and is discouraged.
G. Any appendices. Detailed mathematics or long algorithms may be moved to an appendix.
H. Figures and tables should be included in the text near where they are cited. They must be captioned and numbered in two separate series using Arabic numerals.
Figures and tables will eventually be printed across one or two columns (approximately 85 or 175 mm wide). This should be borne in mind when choosing line width and fonts for lettering. In any case, figures and tables should contain minimal wording: necessary text should be included in the caption or presented as a table.
Tables are usually more effective than graphs or running text for displaying significant amounts of data. Columns and rows should have headings, and units where appropriate. Tables should not duplicate results presented elsewhere in the paper.
Graphs should not include a grid, and their axes should be clearly labelled. Use different symbols or line types, not colours, to distinguish curves.
Colour should only be introduced when it is essential to the meaning of a figure.
7. Methods of submission
Currently, manuscripts can be submitted to Computer-Aided Design electronically, in one of two ways:
A. By e-mail. Send a covering letter as an e-mail with the subject line "CAD submission" to one Editor. The manuscript should be attached as a single file in PDF format. Ensure that there is no requirement for 'language support', or unusual fonts or colour spaces in the file. Check that it can be read and printed using a virgin copy of the latest Acrobat browser. The Editors' webstie and e-mail addresses are: http://www.johnwoodwark.com (Dr. John Woodwark) and lap@cadconferences.com (Professor Les Piegl).
B. On-line. The CAD on-line submissions page accepts files in various formats, which are converted to PDF form and forwarded to the preferred Editor. Follow the instructions at http://authors.elsevier.com/journal/cad.
Submissions should not exceed 1 mbyte in size. To accelerate transmission, browsing and printing, figures should be scanned or sampled at the minimum resolution needed for legibility.
When preparing submissions, the text area should be set to the European A4 or the US letter paper size. Present the text as a single column, leaving margins of 25mm or 1" all round. The typeface should be a 12pt serifed font (such as Times Roman), and the lines should be double-spaced: a full page of text should contain about 200-250 words. Number all pages in a way that will show if the PDF is printed.
All submissions should be accompanied by a covering letter, giving the contact details of the Corresponding Author (including e-mail address), and including a declaration that the paper conforms with the conditions on originality and copyright specified in Section 3 of this Guide.
All submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. This usually takes only a couple of days, but please allow at least a week before following up.
8. Review process
A. All papers published in CAD are subject to our well-established peer review process. However, referees are a precious resource and manuscripts which do not accord with the Scope of CAD, which do not follow these Instructions to Authors, or which are not presented in a satisfactory way will not be sent for refereeing.
B. Unless they explicitly ask to be identified, referees will remain anonymous. Referees will be chosen by the Editors, but authors are welcome to supply a short list of potential referees, with contact details.
C. As a consequence of referees' reports, manuscripts may be rejected, and revisions are usually required. Revisions should be undertaken promptly: manuscripts returned after six weeks may be considered as new submissions, and the review process begun again. If a longer period for revision is essential, it should be agreed in advance. Revision does not guarantee acceptance, and further refereeing may be necessary.
9. Publication process
Once your paper is accepted, you may be asked by the Editor that has been conducting the review process to reformat your paper somewhat to meet the needs of Production. In particular, the figures will have to be repositioned so that each is on a separate page following the text. Digital figures will need to be supplied at appropriate resolution for publication, and the originals of non-digital artwork such as photographs will be required. Please consult the Elsevier digital artwork page at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/authorartwork.
At this stage, references must be in the journal's style and keywords should be supplied if they have not yet been submitted.
Additional material that will be needed before publication includes permission letters (if material published elsewhere has been used), and authors' photographs and biographical notes.
Accepted papers will be edited for English idiom and to suit Computer-Aided Design's house style.
Proofs and a copyright transfer form will be sent to the Corresponding Author, and must be dealt with rapidly. Proof correction is not an opportunity for revision, and changes other than typesetters' errors may be charged for.
The Corresponding Author will receive 25 offprints of the paper and one copy of the journal free of charge.
Editorial Board
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J. Woodwark, 47 Stockers Avenue, Winchester, Hants S022 5LB, UK
Email:Homepage: http://www.johnwoodwark.com/cad
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L. Piegl, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620-5399, USA.
Email:lap@cadconferences.com
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Book Review Editor:
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W.F. Bronsvoort, Delft University of Technology and Systems, Mekelweg 4, 2628CD, Delft, The Netherlands
Email:bronsvoort@its.tudelft.nl
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Advisory Editorial Board:
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A. Bowyer, University of Bath, UK
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P. Brunet, Universitat Politecnica de Catulunya, Barcelona, Spain
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J. Cagan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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B.K. Choi, Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea
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G. Elber, Computer Science Department, Haifa, Israel
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R. Gadh, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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R.N. Goldman, Rice University, Houston, USA
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C.M. Hoffmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
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I. Horvath, Technische Universiteit, Delft, The Netherlands
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K-C Hui, Department of Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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G. Jared, Cranfield University, Bedford, UK
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M.-S. Kim, Seoul University, Korea
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K. Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
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R. Martin, Cardiff University, UK
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N.M. Patrikalakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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H. Pottmann, Institute fur Geometrie, Technische Universitat, Vienna, Austria
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W.C. Regli, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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J. Rossignac, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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C.H. Sequin, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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N.S. Sapidis, University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece
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T. Sederberg, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA
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J.J. Shah, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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K. Sugihara, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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S.T. Tan, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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W. Tiller, GeomWare Inc., Tyler, TX, USA
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T. Varady, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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D.J. Walton, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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T.C. Woo, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Honorary Editors:
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C.M. Eastman, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
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J.S. Gero, University of Sydney, Australia
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D.F. Rogers, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, USA
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M. Sabin, Numerical Geometry Ltd, Cambridge, UK
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