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The Mission of AIM@SHAPE is to foster the development of new methodologies for modelling and processing the knowledge related to digital shapes. This knowledge is concerned with the geometry (the spatial extent of the object), the structure (object features and part-whole decomposition), attributes (colours, textures), semantics (meaning, purpose), and has interaction with time (morphing, animation). This objective will be achieved by growing a new multi-disciplinary research field, which deeply integrates Computer Graphics and Vision with Knowledge Technologies and builds on using knowledge formalisation mechanisms (metadata and ontologies) for linking semantics to shape or shape parts. The innovation sought by AIM@SHAPE is to move towards digital representations of shapes which are able to model not only the visual appearance of objects but also their meaning or functionality in a given knowledge domain.

The AIM@SHAPE consortium of 13 excellent research institutions in foundational and applied fields of shape modelling will pursue lasting integration both at the foundational level, by initiating a new Theory of Digital Shapes, and at the component level, by developing a Digital Shape Workbench as a common platform for shape models and software tools. Integrating activities will include the design of a common shape ontology and a program for human capital mobility and training. Spreading of excellence activities will include an international forum, an industrial users' group and regular conferences.