Research activities in applied informatic fields related to the design, planning and management of engineering disciplines are increasing. The purpose of these activities is to define future working environments for all parties concerned with the design, planning and management of the built environment. In this respect attention is being focused on advanced technologies in order to create new environments and to discover new tools for designing, planning, decision-making etc. The 49 papers in this volume give an in-depth analysis on the planning and integration of advanced technologies, as well as the current terms and conditions necessary for introducing the new tools offered by the latest developments in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics and image processing. The new strategies are reviewed in the light of the inevitable changes that will be required of the professional and educational working environments of architecture, building engineering, civil engineering, urban design and urban planning. The first three sections of the book emphasize research, development and application issues concerning advanced technologies. Section four is a collection of papers each dealing with a specific topic of interest. The volume will prove an indispensable reference source on the prerequisites for, and the impacts of, advanced technologies in civil engineering, architecture building engineering, urban design and urban planning, and the integration of these technologies in the areas of research, development, education and professional environments.
Part 1 Advanced technologies - research issues: the way of IT research -
review of research assumptions and directions, A. Bijl; assessing the impact
of new technologies on design practice through an examination of metaphor, S.
Newton and R. Coyne; une architecture de systeme a bases de connaissances
fondee sur l'abduction, la deduction et l'induction, F. Guena. Part 2
Advanced technologies - development issues: le maintien de la coherence d'un
modele evolutif dans un contexte de robots mobiles autonomes - le systeme
PROVE, X. Tang and K. Zreik. Part 3 Advanced technologies - application
issues: component-based modular building design using artificial intelligence
techniques, C. Bridgewater and B.L. Atkin; planning urban open spaces by
expert systems, A. Barbanente, et al; experiences with the construction of a
building assembly robot, W. Leyh. Part 4 Advanced technologies - specific
issues: a CAD-IS for the three-dimensional modelling of road design, P.
Opstal, et al; a model-driven configuration - from procedural to object-based
decomposition, V. Cyras, et al; an object based traffic control strategy - a
chaos theory approach with an object-oriented implementation, R.D. Johanns
and D.A. Rooemond; a shape-grammar for courtyard houses, M. Aksoy and G.
Saglamer; a visual database for on-line access to bridge precedence, S.N.
Pollalis; cognitive paradigms for design - knowledge, will, feeling and
skill, T. Okasala; computer visualization for planning control - objectivity,
realism and negotiated outcomes, A.C. Hall; cost information in succeeding
stages of the design process, E.P. Deiman and H. Tempelmans Plat; fuzzy
control of robots, J.M. Meslin, et al; intelligent computer integrated
structures - a new generation of structures, Z.Zagar and D. Delic; on
simulation, image analysis and structural modelling of steel fibre concrete,
P. Stroeven; targeting novices and experts, S. Boulanger and I. Smith;
video-realistic methods for interior light design, A. Canesi, et al; towards
a multi-agent approach for co-operative distributed design assistants, B.
Trousse.
