Optimization and Artificial Intelligence in Civil and Structural Engineering | Volume I: Optimization in Civil and Structural Engineering

B. H. Topping

ISBN 10: 9048142016 / ISBN 13: 9789048142019

Published by Springer Netherland, 2010

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Optimization and Artificial Intelligence in Civil and Structural Engineering | Volume I: Optimization in Civil and Structural Engineering | B. H. Topping | Taschenbuch | xvi | Englisch | 2010 | Springer Netherland | EAN 9789048142019 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: Optimization and Artificial Intelligence in Civil and Structural Engineering | Volume I: Optimization in Civil and Structural Engineering
• Publisher: Springer Netherland
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9048142016
• ISBN 13: 9789048142019
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 36D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 36 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1001 grams
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This volume and its companion volume includes the edited versions of the principal lectures and selected papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Optimization and Decision Support Systems in Civil Engineering. The Institute was held in the Department of Civil Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh from June 25th to July 6th 1989 and was attended by eighty participants from Universities and Research Institutes around the world. A number of practising civil and structural engineers also attended. The lectures and papers have been divided into two volumes to reflect the dual themes of the Institute namely Optimization and Decision Support Systems in Civil Engineering. Planning for this ASI commenced in late 1986 when Andrew Templeman and I discussed developments in the use of the systems approach in civil engineering. A little later it became clear that much of this approach could be realised through the use of knowledge-based systems and artificial intelligence techniques. Both Don Grierson and John Gero indicated at an early stage how important it would be to include knowledge-based systems within the scope of the Institute. The title of the Institute could have been: 'Civil Engineering Systems' as this would have reflected the range of systems applications to civil engineering problems considered by the Institute. These volumes therefore reflect the full range of these problems including: structural analysis and design; water resources engineering; geotechnical engineering; transportation and environmental engineering.