NEW TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY Edited by Marcello Chiaberge New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry Edited by Marcello Chiaberge Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution 3.0 license, which permits to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work in any medium, so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. 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ISBN 978-953-307-999-8 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com [...]... 20 New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry Fig 5 Sting support system (left) and truck setup in the 9.5x9.5 test section (right) LLF has two standard support systems (Fig 4 and 5): • A sting support system, to which models are mounted via an internal balance This is mostly used for aircraft and helicopter testing, but is also necessary for cars in combination with the moving belt (moving... techniques at automotive testing in a wind tunnel have been discussed in years around 1990 in various papers of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Mercker and Knape (1989) discussed the ground simulation with a moving belt or with tangential blowing Mercker and Wiedemann (1990) compared the results obtained at different ground simulation techniques 22 New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry. .. project provided the data for our study Those included interview surveys of 140 truck drivers and 261 car drivers from Europe and Asia (China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, 6 New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK) We present a case study on the car customer surveys data Each individual car customer was asked to select... needed 10 New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry Fig 2 WSIG Architecture (Jade 2008) Two main processes are continuously active in the WSIG web application: i The process responsible for intercepting DF registrations/de-registrations and converting them into suitable WSDLs As mentioned, this process is completely carried out by the WSIG Agent ii The process responsible for serving incoming web... administrating and monitoring the activity of running agents Each running instance of the JADE runtime environment is called a ‘Container’ as it can contain several agents A set of active containers is called a ‘Platform’ A single special Main Container should always be active in a platform and all other containers register with it when they start The Main Container differs from normal containers in the... true) which indicates the successful addition of the data in the database 14 New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry Function Activity Registration getUsernameExistance( ) Log In getUserId( ) Log In updateUser( ) Accessing CATER list setComponentValue( ) Accessing CATER list getUserAttributes( ) Accessing CATER list getComponentId( ) Accessing CATER list getActualAttribute( ) Accessing CATER... descriptor according to the entered input (region, gender, age range and descriptor) Table 7 List of functions of the agent – based system of CATER Data Mining and Intelligent Agents for Supporting Mass Customization in the Automotive Industry 15 4 Conclusion This paper presented a data mining and agent-based framework based on citarasa principles The methodology followed provided a mapping mechanism... New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry mounted to the available sting and forces are measured with an internal balance between sting and car Shock absorbers and springs of each wheel are replaced by a dual-action pneumatic cylinder to counterbalance the wheel's weight but still be able to create an effective downward force Rolling resistance of the wheels is determined from the internal balance... Kansei words and design elements in Kansei design systems (Matsubara & Nagamachi 1997) propose to 4 New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry develop hybrid expert systems for Kansei design support (Jiao, 2007) proposes an affective design framework based on ambient intelligence techniques to facilitate decision-making in designing customized product ecosystems In the current paper, a new research... Developments in Automotive Industry Fig 4 Agent‘s conceptual architecture models generated by the data mining process (as described in section 2) which constitute the knowledge base of the Data Mining module of the Citarasa engine All requested entries by each registered user are collected in the Citarasa engineering database The agent is interconnected with the DIYD engine that constitutes the interface . NEW TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY Edited by Marcello Chiaberge New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry Edited by Marcello Chiaberge Published by InTech Janeza. obtained from orders@intechweb.org New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry, Edited by Marcello Chiaberge p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-999-8 free online editions of InTech Books and. machinery, design and materials) and tries to show emerging solutions in automotive industry fi elds related to OEMs and no-OEMs sectors in order to show the vitality of this leading industry