Multi-disciplinary collaborative building design-A comparative study between multi-agent systems and multi-disciplinary optimisation approaches

Automation in Construction

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 537-549

  Ren, Z ^a   Yang, F ^b   Bouchlaghem, N M ^c   Anumba, C J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b Mouchel Group   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative building design; Intelligent agents; Multi disciplinary optimisation

Indexed keywords

BUILDING DESIGN; BUILDING INDUSTRY; COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPLEX DESIGN PROBLEMS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DESIGNS; OPTIMISATIONS; ROADMAP; TECHNICAL PROBLEM; THEORETICAL MODELLING;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 79957449845     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2010.11.020     Document Type: Article

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