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Preliminaries
1	INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: PRESENT AND FUTURE
1.1	The Penetration of Information Technologies into Civil and Structural Engineering Design: State-of-the-Art and Directions Toward the Future S.J. Fenves	1
2	CONCURRENT ENGINEERING AND COLLABORATIVE DESIGN
2.1	A Configuration and Version Management Model for Collaborative Design K.H. Law and K. Krishnamurthy	7
2.2	AGENTCAD: A Distributed Cooperative CAD Environment T. Khedro	15
2.3	Interdisciplinary Communication Medium in Support of Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaborative Design R. Fruchter	21
2.4	Change Negotiation Meetings in a Distributed Collaborative Engineering Environment F. Pena Mora and K. Hussein	29
3	DESIGN MANAGEMENT
3.1	A Generic Framework for Intelligent Design Tools M. Hauser, C. Nollau and R.J. Scherer	39
3.2	A Dynamic Model for Civil Engineering Design Management S. Ogunlana, J. Lim and K. Saeed	47
3.3	An AI Approach to the Management of Uncertainty in Assessing the Post-Earthquake Usability of Buildings Assessment S. Bruno, C. Gavarini and A. Padula	57
3.4	Interval Methods for Qualitatively Uncertain Models in Structural Design D.I. Schwartz and S.S. Chen	63
4	STRATEGIC ISSUES
4.1	IT and Design: A Personal View J.C. Miles and C.J. Moore	69
4.2	Influence of Cognitive Overload and Bias on Engineering Design J.C. Savage, J.C. Miles, C.J. Moore and C. Miles	77
4.3	Construction as a Manufacturing Process A. Crowley	85
4.4	Digital Archives of Engineering Images: Lessons from the Arts K. Martini	93
5	INTEGRATED DESIGN
5.1	CONMIX: Integrating Specifications, Data and Models W.M.K. Roddis, D.L. Melber and G.P. Pasley	99
5.2	A Human-Centred Approach Towards Design Integration Y.Z. Chen, I. Frame and T.W. Maver	105
5.3	Integrating Design and Planning in Building Projects - System Architecture Implementation and Experiences M. Hannus, J. Laitinen and K.-J. Seren	117
5.4	Towards an Integrated Engineering Design Environment N.F.O. Evbuomwan and C.J. Anumba	127
5.5	A Logic-based Environment for Reactive Agents in Intelligent CAD Systems J. Bento and B. Feij	135
6	INFORMATION SYSTEMS
6.1	Object-Oriented Design of Geotechnical Information Systems U. Meissner and J. Diaz	143
6.2	Engineering Data Access and Retrieval via the World Wide Web J. Botari and J. Biedermann	153
7	DESIGN PRACTICE
7.1	Information Technology Use in Consulting Engineering Firms in the Republic of Ireland J. Healy and T. Orr	163
7.2	The Current State of Computing in Building Design and Construction: A Detailed Survey L. Schiot Sorensen and T. Andersen	171
7.3	The Effective Application of Information Technology in Business Process Re-Engineering C.E.A. Fowler	177
8	PRODUCT MODELLING
8.1	Overview of Entity-Based Integrated Design Product and Process Models C.-H. Lee, R. Sause and N.K. Hong	185
8.2	PREFACTO - a Construction Management Tool using Product Model Data A. Jagbeck	199

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