Today, our cities are an embodiment of the complex, historical evolution of knowledge,
desires and technology. Our planned and designed activities co-evolve with our aspirations …

Abstract Recent Artificial Intelligence studies have achieved substantial improvements in
practical tasks by using extensive amounts of data. We assume that a substantial part of the …

Abstract Virtual Design and Construction (VDC 1) is the use of integrated multi-disciplinary
performance models of design-construction projects to support explicit and public business …

Buildings are complex products containing relatively large numbers of distinct parts that are
collected in multiple assemblies for different design, analysis and production purposes …

The subject of this paper is the Design Rationale editor (DRed). This is a simple and
unobtrusive software tool that allows engineering designers to record their rationale as the …

The discovery of a creative solution occasionally corresponds to the sudden attainment of a
mental insight. Our purpose is to formally describe this phenomenon and the cognitive …

Design is believed to be one of the most interesting and challenging problem-solving
activities ever facing artificial intelligence (AI) researchers. Knowledge-based systems using …

Physically based space planning is a means for automating the conceptual design process
by applying the physics of motion to space plan elements. This methodology provides for a …

Case‐based reasoning (CBR) is a highly effective technique in the artificial intelligence (AI)
domain capable of solving or providing suggestions for the current problem by storing and …

We developed a suite of procedural algorithms for space planning in commercial offices.
These algorithms were benchmarked against 13,000 actual offices designed by human …