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Preliminaries
1	CONSTRUCTION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
1.1	A Knowledge based System for Construction Planning O. Shaked and A. Warszawski	1
1.2	The Development of an Expert System for Building Construction Contracts J. Santhanam	7
1.3	An Integrated System for the Assessment of Construction Claims with Minimum Analysis Cost S. Alkass, M. Mazerolle and F. Harris	15
1.4	An Expert System for Managing the Work Distribution of a Survey Practice T.K. Too	23
1.5	A Decision Support System for Drainage Cost Estimating J.H.M. Tah, A. Thorpe and R. McCaffer	29
2	CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SCHEDULING AND CONTROL
2.1	A Computer Program for Construction Project Scheduling K.K.E. Kahkonen and B.L. Atkin	37
2.2	Generic Activity Factors for Evaluating Project Duration E.W. East	43
2.3	Cost Information in Construction Before Design and Scheduling using Expert Systems J. Christian	49
2.4	An Approach to Automate the Generation of Construction Schedules C-K. Soh and T.J. Lee	57
2.5	The Application of Protocol Analysis in the Development of Knowledge based Systems for Contractors' Resource based Estimating A. Baldwin and S.A. Oteifa	65
3	TRANSPORTATION AND HIGHWAY ENGINEERING
3.1	Prototype Rule-Based Decision Support System for Winter Highway Maintenance W.J. Grenney and H.N. Marshall	71
3.2	The Fuzzy Algorithm in Bridge and Pavement Management Systems S. Rewinski	77
3.3	A Knowledge-Based System for Road Accident Remedial Work J. Wu and B.G. Heydecker	83
3.4	Enhancement of Highway Maintenance Management Systems through Optimization of Critical Deterioration Levels A. Wilkins and H.T. Tillotson	95
4	GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
4.1	The Use of a Knowledge-based System for Civil Engineering Site Investigations I.G.N. Smith and J. Oliphant	105
4.2	Comparing Soils using Knowledge based Systems D.G. Toll, N. Vaptismas and M. Moula	113
4.3	Geotechnical Laboratory Test Simulation using AI Techniques I.E.G. Davey-Wilson	119
4.4	FOUNDCON: A Conceptual Model for the Integrated Knowledge-based CAD Systems for Foundation Design M.M. Rashad, N.A.B. Yehia, A.S. Bazaraa and A.I. Dessouki	125
4.5	Repairability Assessment of Damaged Foundations F.C. Hadipriono and W.E. Wolfe	137
4.6	XPENT: An Expert System for Slope Stability R.M. Faure, D. Mascarelli, M. Zelfani, L. Charveriat, J. Gandar and O. Mosuro	143
5	MATERIALS ENGINEERING
5.1	An Expert System for the Selection of Admixtures for Concrete R.J. Alwood and S.A. Oteifa	149
5.2	DEX: An Expert System for the Design of Durable Concrete A.J. Wilkins and J. Elgy	159
6	BUILDING AND HOUSING DESIGN
6.1	An Integrated System to Aid Design Engineers in Selecting Easy to Construct Design Details S. Alkass, O. Moselhi and A. Abdou	169
6.2	Development of an Expert System for Intelligent Simulation of Housing Modernisation Works A. Retik, V. Marston and M. Alshawi	177
6.3	Knowledge Baased System for Design of Prefabricated Buildings A. Retik and A. Warszawski	187
6.4	A Knowledge based Approach for Functional Planning of Farm Production Buildings K. Karstila and K. Kaustell	197
7	ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
7.1	A Knowledge-based Expert System for Water Environmental Protection W. Yu, L. Wang, M. Xu and L. Dong	205
7.2	Developing Intelligent Computer Models for the Stochastic Analysis of Environmental Systems G. Christakos and R. Dimitrakopoulos	213
8	TECHNIQUES FOR ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
8.1	Multi Expert Knowledge Transfer for Metal Forging Fault Diagnosis N. Ravaille and J.L. Wybo	219
9	INTELLIGENT DATABASES
9.1	Graphical Implementation of Hazard Databases for Seismic Risk Analysis using IRAS Y. Lin, K.L. Yu, W. Dong and F. Wong	229
9.2	Hypertext System for Asphalt Paving Construction T.P. Williams	235
10	DIAGNOSTIC AND ADVISORY SYSTEMS
10.1	Developing Building Pathology Techniques in Expert Systems C. Briffett and A.A. Leng	241
10.2	Case Studies in Knowledge Representatin for Building Envelope Failure Diagnosis P. Fazio and K. Gowri	251
11	NEURAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
11.1	Markup Estimation using AI Methodology O. Moselhi, T. Hegazy and P. Fazio	257
11.2	Investigation of a Neural Network Model for Freeway Incident Detection R.L. Cheu, S.G. Ritchie, W.W. Recker and B. Bavarian	267
11.3	A Faster Learning Algorithm for Back-Propagation Neural Networks in NDE Applications M.R. Ramirez and D. Arghya	275
12	COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING AND TEACHING
12.1	The Use of Expert Systems in Computer-Assisted Learning S. Rowlinson, T. To and A.K. Tsang	285
13	BIBLIOGRAPHY
13.1	Artificial Intelligence and Civil Engineering: A Bibliography B.H.V. Topping, B. Kumar and M. Jadid	293

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