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1983-2008: 25 Years of Civil-Comp Conferences

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS

Edited by: B.H.V. Topping and A.I. Khan

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1	SYSTEMS APPROACH AND MANAGEMENT
1.1	The Systems Approach to Water Resources Management: A Myth or Reality S. Walker	1
2	DESIGN STRATEGIES
2.1	Design Development with Distributed Computing A.I. Khan and B.H.V. Topping	5
2.2	Automation in Structural Design Y.L. Mo	11
3	INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND DATABASE SYSTEMS
3.1	The Integrated Information System for AEC Projects M.J. Riley and H.R.S. Sabet	19
3.2	A Multimedia Product Selector System for the Construction Industry M. O'Brien and A. Al-Soufi	25
3.3	The Representation of Relative Temporal Knowledge in Process Control and Management M. Jixin and B. Knight	29
3.4	STRATA3: A Geotechnical Data Management System S.P. Bentley, M. Connaughton and J. Thomas	37
4	CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING
4.1	Computer Aids in Evaluating the Management of Construction Projects M.M. Kumaraswamy and A. Thorpe	41
4.2	Adaptive Software for the Construction Industry M. O'Brien and A. Endut	47
4.3	Concurrent Construction Integrated Design B. Jones and M.J. Riley	53
4.4	Construction Supply-Chain Management: A Research Framework W.J. O'Brien and M.A. Fischer	61
5	RISK AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS IN CONSTRUCTION
5.1	Portfolio Analysis and its Applications to the Various Phases of Civil Engineering M. Morcos and G. Singh	65
6	DIAGNOSTIC, ADVISORY AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
6.1	Overall Strategies for Diagnostic Expert Systems R.J. Allwood and A. Goodier	73
6.2	An Advisory Knowledge-Based System for the Explosive Demolition of Brick Chimneys M.A. Bramer, A.J. Kispal, J.E. Butler and D.S.J. Fox	79
6.3	The Development of an Object-Oriented Expert System for Diagnosis and Repair G. Funk and H.W. Reinhardt	87
6.4	A Pipeline Planning System P.Y. Huang, J.E. Diekmann and S. Fenis	95
7	HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS
7.1	An Intelligent Help Module for Stochastic Simulation Models of Construction Materials Handling Systems Z. Harun and G. Singh	101
7.2	Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Hypertext Approaches to a Geotechnical Expert System I.E.G. Davey-Wilson	109
8	PRODUCT MODELLING
8.1	Toward Integrated Structural Engineering Design Models R. Sause and J.A. Madden	115
8.2	Product Models and Application Protocols A. Watson and A. Boyle	121
9	COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN
9.1	An Integrated CAD/DBASE Environment for Interactive Structural Design B. Talhouni and M.I. Kilani	131
9.2	Detailed Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings using Logic Programming V.K. Koumousis, S.J. Arsenis and V.B. Vasiloglou	143
9.3	Configuration and Components Consistency in the Computer Aided Design of Framed Structures S. Pei and S. Sarkar	153
10	GRAPHICS
10.1	Knowledge-based Systems Interface Design: An Object Oriented Approach Z. Nouas and T.J. McCarthy	159
11	COMPUTER ASSISTED DRAWING
11.1	An Object Oriented Approach for Interpreting Architectural CAD Drawings I. Ewen and M. Alshawi	167
11.2	Intelligent Interpretation of Preliminary Design Drawings A. Retik and B. Kumar	175
12	FUZZY CONTROL AND DECISION MAKING
12.1	Development of Fuzzy Swing Control System for a Stationary Cableway M. Nakao	183
12.2	Fuzzy Linear Programming for Construction Resource Allocation K.C. Wong, T.P. So and K.C Lam	189
12.3	Assessment of Project Performance by Fuzzy Reasoning Models K. Sun	195
13	PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING
13.1	Network Distributed Finite Element Analysis J.W. Baugh and H.S. Chadha	205
13.2	Sub-Domain Generation Method for Non-Convex Domains B.H.V. Topping and A.I. Khan	219
13.3	Efficient Parallel Solution of Non-Linear Structural Eigenvalue Problems W.J. Watkins, D. Kennedy and F.W. Williams	235
13.4	Parallel Finite Element Analysis using the Jacobi-Conditioned Conjugate Gradient Algorithm A.I. Khan and B.H.V. Topping	245
13.5	A Domain Decomposition Polynomial Preconditioning for Parallel Processing M. Papadrakakis and S. Bitzarakis	257
14	ROBOTICS
14.1	Adaptive Control for Construction Robotics L.E. Bernold	265
14.2	APPLA: Apprentice Planning System for Indoor Autonomous Mobile Robots M. Bellafkih and K. Zreik	271
14.3	Intelligent Control of Autonomous Mobile Robots based on Low Cost Sensors K. Schilling, H. Roth and B. Theobold	277
14.4	A Spatial Information System for Indoor Autonomous Mobile Robots X. Tang and K. Zreik	285
14.5	Economic Analysis of Performance of a Robot for Interior Building Works A. Warszawski and Y. Rosenfield	291
15	COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
15.1	Intelligent Tutoring Frameworks for Engineering N.C. Baker	295

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