>SIZE(5):''Member Infromation'' #ref(http://www.jaist.ac.jp/ks/labs/nagai/DesignCreativity/member/images/GaetanoCascini_img_0.jpg) >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).