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	ADVANCED ENGINEERING INFORMATICS The science of supporting knowledge-intensive activities Former title: Artificial Intelligence in Engineering ISSN: 1474-0346 Editorial Board Editors: J.C. Kunz Stanford University, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Building 550, Stanford, CA 94305-4020, USA, Tel: +1 415 725 1546, Fax: +1 415 723 4806, Email: kunz@stanford.edu I.F.C. Smith Applied Computing and Mechanics (IMAC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, Email: Ian.Smith@epfl.ch T. Tomiyama Intelligent Mechanical Systems, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, Netherlands, Tel: +31 15 27 81021, Email: t.tomiyama@3mE.tudelft.nl Editorial Board: B. Akinci Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA C. Anumba Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA, Email: anumba@engr.psu.edu J.-P. Barthes Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France J. Bowen University College Cork, Ireland D. Braha University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA, USA I. Brilakis University of Michigan, PA, USA. B. Chandrasekaran Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA C.-H. Chen Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Y. Fan Tsinghua University, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China, Email: fanyus@tsinghua.edu.cn I Flood University of Florida, Florida, USA K. Fujita Osaka University, JAPAN J. Garrett Jr Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA A.K. Goel Georgia Tech, USA. D.E. Grierson University of Waterloo, Canada S. Han KAIST, Daejon, South Korea Y. Jin University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA L. Joskowicz Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel V.R. Kamat University of Michigan, PA, USA. V. Kryssanov Ritsumeikan University, Shiga-ken, Japan B. Kumar Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK M.H. Lee University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK E. Lutters University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands J.C. Miles University of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales R. Mizoguchi Osaka University, Japan L.S. Moore Cardiff University, UK T. Nishida Kyoto University, Japan W.J. O'Brien University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA K. Preiss Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel B. Raphael National University of Singapore, Singapore W.C. Regli Drexel University, Philadelphia Y. Reich Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel R.J. Scherer Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany K. Shea Technical University of Munich, Germany W. Shen National Research Council, Canada T. Smithers Fatronik, Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain and Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Oñati, Spain L. Soibelman Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA J. Vancza Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary. D. Xue University of Calgary, Canada