Publisher's Synopsis
These are the proceedings of the third International Conference on Engineering Design and Optimization (ICEDO 2012), held on May 25-27th 2012 in Shaoxing (P.R. China). Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).The 278 peer-reviewed papers are grouped into 4 chapters: Engineering Design - Theory and Practice;Product Design and Development; Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Optimization; Advanced Machining and Materials Processing Technology.