AEI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
2004
Knowledge intensive engineering aims at flexible applications of a variety of product life cycle knowledge, such as design, manufacturing, operations, maintenance, and recycling. ...
AEI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
2004
The paper proposes an adaptive web system--that is, a website that is capable of changing its original design to fit user requirements. For the purpose of improving shortcomings o...
AEI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
2004
The estimation of productivity rates in cyclic construction processes is a difficult, but essential task in the planning of construction projects. The conventional method--a calcu...
AEI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
2004
atterns specify generic relations among abstract design elements. We hypothesize that design patterns are productive units of analogical transfer in design. We describe a normativ...
AEI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
2004
Although the importance of knowledge sharing among designers has been widely recognized, knowledge about functionality in the conceptual design phase is hard to capture and is oft...
AEI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
2004
This research applies the meta-heuristic method of ant colony optimization (ACO) to an established set of vehicle routing problems (VRP). The procedure simulates the decision-maki...