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>SIZE(5):''Member Infromation''

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>SIZE(5):''Name''

Surname: CASCINI 

Given name: GAETANO 

>SIZE(5):''Contact (E-mail address, Web site)''

E-mail: GAETANO.CASCINI@POLIMI.IT

Website: 

WWW.KAEMART.IT
WWW.MECC.POLIMI.IT

>SIZE(5):''Affiliation''

Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 

Organization: POLITECNICO DI MILANO, DEPT. OF MECHANICS 

Address: VIA GIUSEPPE LA MASA, 1 - 20156 MILANO - ITALY 

Country: ITALY

>SIZE(5):''Major/Field''

Engineering Design
Systematic Innovation 

>SIZE(5):''Research Interests''

Methods and tools for inventive design:

- scientific formalization and evolution of methods for inventive problem solving

- analysis of the product cycle and Business Process Reengineering through process innovation

- Knowledge Management and text mining algorithms for patent analysis

Computer-Aided systems:

- Computer-Aided inventive problem solving - development of Knowledge-Based CAD tools

- novel techniques of topological optimization 

>SIZE(5):''Selected Publications''
- Cugini U., Cascini G., Muzzupappa M., Nigrelli V.: ¡ÈIntegrated Computer-Aided Innovation: the PROSIT approach¡É, Journal of Computers in Industry, Special Issue on Computer-Aided Innovation, v.60(8), 2009, pp. 629-641. 
- Cascini G., Rissone P., Rotini F.: ¡ÈBusiness Re-engineering through integration of methods and tools for process innovation¡É, Proc. IMechE, Part B: J. Engineering Manufacture, 2008, 222(B12), 1715-1728. 
- Cascini G., Russo D., ¡ÈComputer-Aided analysis of patents and search for TRIZ contradictions¡É, International Journal of Product Development, Special Issue: Creativity and Innovation Employing TRIZ, Vol. 4, Nos. 1/2, 2007, pp. 52-67. 
- Cascini G., Rotini F., Russo D.: ¡ÈFunctional modeling for TRIZ-based evolutionary analyses¡É, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED), 24-27 August 2009, Stanford, Usa (Outstanding Paper Award).