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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 17
KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS FOR CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping

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Preliminaries
1INTEGRATED SYSTEMS FOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION  
1.1 Representation Issues for Civil Engineering Design
I.A. MacLeod
1
1.2 An Agent based Approach to Information for Construction
I.A. MacLeod and D.G. McGregor
5
1.3 Interdisciplinary Communication Medium for Collaborative Design
R. Fruchter, M. Clayton, H. Krawinkler, J. Kunz and P. Teicholz
7
1.4 Problem Centered Approach to Control of Agents in a Design Environment
M. Terk and S. J. Fenves
17
1.5 Collaborative Distributed Facility Engineering through Agent-based Software Integration
T. Khedro and M.R. Genesereth
27
1.6 An Integrated Computer Support Environment for Design Management
T. Heath, D. Scott and J. Yang
37
2INTEGRATION OF KBS IN ENGINEERING SOFTWARE  
2.1 A Blackboard Approach for the Integration of an Intelligent Knowledge based System into Engineering Software
M. Petridis and B. Knight
49
3CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING  
3.1 Integration of Building Design and Construction Data: An Object Oriented Model
M.S. Kiwan and A.K. Munns
57
3.2 Process-Oriented Intelligent Planning for the Fabrication and Placement of Concrete Reinforcement
M. Salim and L.E. Bernold
67
3.3 Knowledge Elicitation and Dynamic Scheduling using a Simulation Model: An Application to the Precast Manufacturing Process
N. Dawood
73
3.4 HISCHED - An Expert System for Construction Planning of High Rise Buildings
O. Shaked and A. Warszawski
81
4KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION, ELICITATION & SYSTEM EVALUATION  
4.1 Knowledge Acquisition and Representation in the Geotechnical Design Domain - A Case Study
S. Rowlinson
85
4.2 Deriving Rules for Bridge Aesthetics
J.C. Miles, C.J. Moore and S.N. Evans
91
4.3 Urban Rail Corridor Control through Machine Learning: An IVHS Approach
S. Khasnabis, T. Arciszewski, S.K. Hoda and W. Ziarko
97
4.4 Knowledge Elicitation for Developing an Integrated Production Management Expert System in the Precast Concrete Industry
N. Dawood and S. Saffar
105
4.5 Validating an Expert System
R.E. Larew, S.D. Wee and F.C. Hadipriono
111
5CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT  
5.1 Common-Objects: An Object Oriented Inference System Shared by Three Construction Knowledge-Bases
I. Watson, P. Brandon and A. Basden
119
5.2 Application of Expert Systems Techniques to the Decision Making Process in Contract Strategy
K.O. Sodipo
127
6WATER ENGINEERING  
6.1 A Knowledge-Based System for the Quality Control of Telemetry Data in Water Distribution Networks
P.J. Watts and B. Knight
135
6.2 A Decision Support System to Assist Stakeholders Evaluate a Water Resource Project
W.J. Grenney W.W. Wallace and T. Senti
145
7GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING  
7.1 Interpreting Borehole Information
N. Vaptismas and D.G. Toll
153
7.2 Knowledge Acquisition and Evaluation for Selection of Slope-Protection Structures
M. Hirokane, I. Mikami, K. Yagashira, K. Kawano and S. Ohmori
161
7.3 Representing Geotechnical Knowledge: Soils and Field Tests
M. Moula and D.G. Toll
171
8TRANSPORT & TRAFFIC ENGINEERING  
8.1 Expert Systems in Transportation Engineering
M. Zaman, G. Bozai, A.S. Mangaokar, A. Soltansi, J.F. Harp, J.L. Gattis and J.G. Laguros
183
8.2 Development of a Real Time Image Analysis System for Traffic Monitoring Applications
M.S. Thomson, C.L. Wan and T.D. Binnie
189
8.3 A Natural Language Processor for Road Accident Data Analysis
J. Wu and B.G. Heydecker
197
9EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND ASEISMIC DESIGN  
9.1 Conception of the Structural System of Buildings by an Expert System
C.A. Syrmakezis and G.K. Mikroudis
209
9.2 ESAS - A Knowledge-Based Expert System for Seismic Evaluation of RC Buildings
I. Perus and P. Fajfar
217
10STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS  
10.1 REDRAW - Diagrammatic Reasoning System for Qualitative Structural Analysis
S. Tessler, Y. Iwasaki and K.H. Law
227
10.2 KBES for Finite Element Analysis: State of the Art and Future Directions
S. Kalaga and C.S. Krishnamoorthy
235
10.3 Statically Indeterminate Trusses Programmed in LOGIC
V.K. Koumousis
245
11DESIGN  
11.1 Case-based Decision Support for the Design of Casting Procedures
D.F. Cowell, B. Knight and K. Preddy
251
11.2 Representing Design Cases
B. Raphael and B. Kumar
259
11.3 Application of Classical AI Planning to Structural Design
D.T. Ndumu, D. Lloyd Smith and B.A. Izzuddin
265
11.4 An Object-Oriented Approach for Building Environmental Modelling
D. Tang and G. Saluja
277
12CONCEPTUAL AND PRELIMINARY DESIGN  
12.1 An Interactive Computer Assisted System for Conceptual Design of Steel Buildings
H. Fuyama, H. Krawinkler and K.H. Law
285
12.2 Empirical Evaluation of Engineers' Requirements for the User-Interface of a Conceptual Bridge Design Expert System
B.T. Philbey, C. Miles and J.C. Miles
297
12.3 Development of an Expert System for the Functional Planning of Farm Production Buildings
K. Karstila, J. Pallas, K. Kaustell and E. Heinonen
303
12.4 An Intelligent Assistant for the Design of Green Areas
J.L. Perez-Cruz, R. Conejo, L. Mandow, M.V. Belmonte, R. Morales and J.I. Garcia-Vinas
311
12.5 Preliminary Design of Tall Buildings: A Knowledge based Approach
P. Jayachandran, N. Tsapatsaris and B.R. Goldstein
319

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