Member Infromation

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Name

Surname: CASCINI

Given name: GAETANO

Contact (E-mail address, Web site)

E-mail: GAETANO.CASCINI@POLIMI.IT

Website:

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

Affiliation

Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Organization: POLITECNICO DI MILANO, DEPT. OF MECHANICS

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

Country: ITALY

Major/Field

Engineering Design Systematic Innovation

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

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).