Discovering Design Principles for Soft Multi-objective Decision Making

Decision-making tasks sometimes involve soft objectives. They are soft in the sense that they contain uncertainty, imprecision or vagueness. For example, decisions on built environment aim to maximize comfort or other experiential qualities. Pareto-optimal solutions to such problems can be found using multi-objective evolutionary search together...

The Architectural Information Map: Semantic modeling in conceptual architectural design

This research focuses on the acquisition, representation, sharing and reuse of design information and knowledge in the conceptual phase of architectural design, and targets the creation of situated digital environments where communities of architectural practice communicate and collaborate using this information and knowledge. The utilizable...