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Preliminaries
1	INTEGRATED 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
2	INTEGRATION 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
3	CONSTRUCTION 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
4	KNOWLEDGE 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
5	CONSTRUCTION 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
6	WATER 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
7	GEOTECHNICAL 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
8	TRANSPORT & 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
9	EARTHQUAKE 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
10	STRUCTURAL 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
11	DESIGN
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
12	CONCEPTUAL 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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