Showing papers in "Automation in Construction in 2001"

TL;DR: An Internet-based project management system called “Total Information Transfer System” (TITS), which comprises six major functions including data exchange, information exchange, Internet chat, live video-cam, search engine and auxiliary services.

TL;DR: This paper examines the difficulties and opportunities that present themselves in teaching a VDS, and presents a review of the pedagogical issues raised in a V DS.

TL;DR: An open-system architecture for a collaborative CAD system supporting virtual product development, where each building element or assembly is designed as an independent component.

TL;DR: The case data of a railway tunnel recently finished in Taiwan were used to establish the model and validation was performed to show that the ANN outperformed the discriminant analysis and the multiple non-linear regression method in predicting tunnel support stability status.

TL;DR: This paper explores the roots of misunderstanding in multi-disciplinary design and presents a solution based on explicit representation of reference and frame-of-reference through three connected databases and a set of inference tools.

TL;DR: The cognitive appearance while designers generating concepts with computers or conventional media are propounded and discussed in this research.

TL;DR: This paper proposes a simplified model to achieve managing information for construction by utilising the ubiquitous Internet technologies, which can be adapted to a corporate Intranet or business Extranet.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of IT evaluation in construction from a benefit and cost perspective, identifying future challenges for IT cost evaluation research in construction and identifying future solutions for IT evaluation research.

TL;DR: It can be found that louvers are more effective than curtains as daylighting control devices, and that the angle of the louvers have more effect than their reflectance on daylight penetration and distribution.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based system is proposed to automate the process of routing and design of an underground power supply system, where surface and underground utilities are represented in several coverages.

TL;DR: In this article, a design-reuse system that maximizes the benefits of rationale capture and information retrieval whilst minimising the costs to the designer that might arise from disruption to natural design work is presented.

TL;DR: The components of EQUAL are described and the functionality and operation of the system through a trial run with hypothetical cases reveal that experts were satisfied with the accuracy and overall performance of EQUal, and CBR approach is suitable for modeling the contractor prequalification domain.

TL;DR: In this paper, a forward-backward Kalman filter is proposed to deal with particularly long maskings, which typically occur when the machine works under bridges, and the results of experiments carried out with an instrumented machine are presented to validate the proposed solutions.

TL;DR: It is proposed that an appropriate model for provision of intelligent computational support for concurrent engineering is in the form of a set of interacting autonomous intelligent agents, possessing different problem-solving capabilities and differing degrees of intelligence.

TL;DR: The research project concerning the multiuser workspace with interuniversity collaboration is described, the possibility of the multi-oriented workspace is shown, and its problems are investigated.

TL;DR: The first half of the paper demonstrates how multimedia can be used to aid learning and training in the construction sector and in disseminating research results to an industrial audience as well as as an interface to complex integrated database systems using virtual reality (VR) technologies.

TL;DR: This project demonstrates that a relatively simple representation tool, one that allowed students and critics to interact on editable webpages, can usefully open up the design space of the architecture studio, however, care is needed in understanding how computer tools relate to the tasks and rituals of interaction that go on in everyday architecture studio pedagogy.

TL;DR: A computational definition of design context is presented and its role for collaborative design and the development of an intelligent collaborative design system supporting context management is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a semi-automatic control system for a hydraulic shovel with a controller has been developed, which can operate a shovel easily and accurately using a controller and feedback plus feed-forward control.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the implementation of a system of Shared Virtual Reality (SVR) in Internet applied to a large-scale project, where the experience of virtual spaces is no longer individual, but rather shared across the Internet with other users simultaneously connected.

TL;DR: In this paper, a shot-creting robot with an arm with six degrees of freedom, which is remotely controlled by an operator, has been developed in two stages: the control system of the semi-automated robot was improved by reducing the number of joysticks from six to two, incorporating a real-time computer simulation model enhanced to identify model feasibility.

TL;DR: A hybrid representation of architectural precedents is presented that separates precedent instances from the concepts they embody, where the concepts are defined in terms of multiple classification taxonomies.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors developed a web-based training course for architecture students to apply CFD simulation on design problem solving, which not only illustrates basic principles regarding airflow in the building design, but also contains CFD sample files with predefined flow cells for students to test different concepts.

TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to begin to fashion a set of questions that will enrich knowledge and to suggest a framework that can be used to answer them.

TL;DR: This paper describes a teaching project, carried out in the postgraduate program of the ETH in Zurich, whose goal was to apply multimedia, Internet-based technology to a study of the work of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.

TL;DR: The design and implementation of a software system, known as REALMEDIA, which provides Web-based, multimedia real-estate services on the Internet and its implementation using JAVA, TCP/IP and FTP will be described.

TL;DR: PLA(id), which is a system programmed in Java for organising product library information on the World-Wide Web, is to be used experimentally in practice contexts to elicit insights into the applicability of on-line libraries of product information.

TL;DR: A system to teach earthquake engineering is presented, based on the principles of breakdown-oriented learning, which can replace the learning from real breakdowns and complements theoretical knowledge that can be passed on using traditional means.

TL;DR: A dynamic workflow system suitable for the use of quasi-intelligent agents that can be non-prescriptive in approach, and a job can be modified independently of the process of which it is an instance.

TL;DR: The use of computers in the urban studies is depicted, and a digital way of understanding historical buildings and the relations with the city is provided, and the issues of computer visual simulation in the large-scale urban models are presented.