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    Overview of Current CAT Systems

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    OVERVIEW OF CURRENT CAT SYSTEMS

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    The paper surveys the current status of the models for representing, manipulating and analyzing dimensioning and tolerancing data behind the major computer-aided tolerancing (CAT) systems, now commercially available. The solid models and tolerance models that these systems adopt, and their implications for the successful integration of CAT and CAD/CAM are discussed. There are two main purposes. First, the attention is focused on the theoretical backgrounds of every CAT system analyzed, for understanding its limits and its usefulness in design and manufacturing practice. The other purpose is to present a comparison among these systems to support the designer and the manufacturing engineer, as well as the researchers, in the choice of the system will be more proper to everyone. Finally, the research work that remains to be carried out, to improve the future CAT systems and their integration with CAD/CAM is sketched out

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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