Innovations in Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning 2006 edition

Marc Notes: The International Conference on Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planningis organised bi-annually ..., a selection of papers presented at the eighth conference that was held at the Kapellerput Conference Centre in the village of Heeze, near Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from 4 to 7 July, 2006--Introd.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Land Use Simulation and Visualisation.- Can Decision Making Processes Benefit from a User Friendly Land Use and Transport Interaction Model?.- Development of a Hierarchical Approach to Assess the Impacts of Transport Policies.- Development of a Support System for Community-Based Disaster Mitigation Planning Integrated with a Fire Spread Simulation Model Using CA.- Transition Rule Elicitation Methods for Urban Cellular Automata Models.- A Method for Estimating Land Use Transition Probability Using Raster Data.- Linking Land Use Modelling and 3D Visualisation.- Multi-Agent Models for Movement Simulation.- Crowd Modeling and Simulation.- Exploring Heuristics Underlying Pedestrian Shopping Decision Processes.- Scale A street case library for environmental design with agent interfaces.- Approach to Design Behavioural Models for Traffic Network Users.- Shape Morphing of Intersection Layouts Using Curb Side Oriented Driver Simulation.- Multi-Agent Models for Urban Development.- Gentrification Waves in the Inner-City of Milan.- Multi-Agent Model to Multi-Process Transformation.- Research on New Residential Areas Using GIS.- A Comparison Study of the Allocation Problem of Undesirable Facilities Based on Residential Awarenes.- Decision-Making on Olympic Urban Development.- Usage of Planning Support Systems.- Managing and Deploying Design Knowledge.- Sieving Pebbles and Growing Profiles.- Concept Formation in a Design Optimization Tool.- A Framework for Situated Design Optimization.- Learning from Main Streets.- Culturally Accepted Green Architecture Toolbox.- Urban Decision-Making.- An Urban Decision Room Based on Mathematical Optimisation.- Forms of Participation in Urban Redevelopment Projects.- The Neighbourhood Wizard.- Design Interactivity and Design Automation.- A Proposal for Morphological Operators to Assist Architectural Design.- Generative Design in an Evolutionary Procedure.- Interactive Rule-Based Design.- Automatic Semantic Comparison of STEP Product Models.- Virtual Environments and Augmented Reality.- Design Tools for Pervasive Computing in Urban Environments.- 1:1 Spatially Augmented Reality Design Environment. Publisher Marketing: Traditionally, the DDSS conferences aim to be a platform for both starting and experienced researchers who focus on the development and application of computer support in the areas of urban planning and architectural design. This results in an interesting mix of well-established research projects and first explorations. It also leads to a very valuable cross-over of theories, methods, and technologies for support systems in the two different areas, architecture and urban planning. This volume contains 31 peer reviewed papers from this year's conference that are organised into seven sections: Land Use Simulation and Visualisation, Multi-Agent Models for Movement Simulation, Multi-Agent Models for Urban Development, Managing and Deploying Design Knowledge, Urban Decision-Making, Design Interactivity and Design Automation, and Virtual Environments and Augmented Reality.

Contributor Bio:  Timmermans, Harry J P R. R. Perdue teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.