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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
1.2	Information Technology in Civil and Structural Engineering Design: Taking Stock to 1996 D.E. Grierson	7
1.3	Design Tools That Learn: A Possible CAD Future J.S. Gero	17
2	CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
2.1	Interactive Design - Time to Bite the Bullet I.F.C. Smith	23
2.2	A Functional Approach in Architectural CAD: ARCHIPLAN B. Medjdoub and B. Yannou	31
2.3	Development of the VK Expert System for Computer-Aided Preliminary Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings C.A. Syrmakezis, G.K. Mikroudis and S. Rouvas	45
2.4	Multi-Agent Collaborative Case-Based Estimating and Design in Nirmani: Organising a Multi-Perspective Case Memory S. Perera and I.D. Watson	53
3	ANALYTICAL MODELLING
3.1	Towards an Integrated Architecture for the Structural Analysis of Mechanical Structures L. Remondini, J.C. Leon and P. Trompette	65
3.2	Knowledge based Approach to the Design of Structural Steel Joints H. Heinisuo and J. Hyvarinen	75
3.3	An Object Oriented Model for the Representation of Knowledge to Develop Computational Verification Systems P. Holewik and D. Hartmann	87
4	BRIDGE DESIGN
4.1	A Decision Support System for the Conceptual Design of River Bridges N. Clayton, J.C. Miles and C.J. Moore	97
4.2	Development of an Information Model for a Geographical Information-based (GIS) Bridge Management System (BMS) T.H. She and G. Aouad	103
4.3	Computational Support for the Design and Costing of Bridge Foundations J.V. Cadogan, C.J. Moore and J.C. Miles	113
5	CODES OF PRACTICE
5.1	A Dependency Network Generator for Standards Processing A.I. Neilson	121
5.2	Using HTML Documents as an Explanation Facility Tool in Civil Engineering Software K. Lehner and D. Hartmann	127
5.3	A Standards Processing Framework H. Kiliccote, J.H. Garrett and S.J. Fenves	133
6	SPECIAL APPLICATIONS
6.1	Towards Computational Eco-Analysis of Building Designs A. Mahdavi and R. Ries	141
6.2	Utilisation of GIS and Network Analysis for Earthquake Damage Assessment of Transportation Systems N. Basoz, S.A. King, A.S. Kiremidjian and K.H. Law	151
6.3	Design Methodology and Data Architecture for the Design of Textile Structures P. Veron, J.C. Leon and P Trompette	161
6.4	Constraint-based Genetic Algorithm Optimization Applied to Reinforced Concrete Design W.K. Lucas and W.M.K. Roddis	171
7	EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
7.1	Virtual Reality in an Integrated Construction Environment I. Faraj and M. Alshawi	177
7.2	Retrofit Design Verification via In-Service Monitoring over the Internet: A Case Study S.S. Chen and C.M. Ballard	183
8	GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND NEURAL NETWORKS
8.1	The Adaptation of Structural System Designs using Genetic Algorithms M.L. Maher and A.G. de Silva Garza	189
8.2	Parallel Processing, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms: Revisited B.H.V. Topping, J. Sziveri, A. Bahreininejad, J.B.P. Leite and B. Cheng	197
8.3	Using Neural Networks to Simulate Poorly Understood Engineering Processes I. Flood	219
8.4	A Multicriteria Genetic Algorithm to Solve Optimization Problems in Structural Engineering Design S. Kundu	225
9	KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS
9.1	Development of a Knowledge-based System for Planning Soil Exploration Programmes using a Probabilistic Approach H.T. Fung and J.N. Kay	235
9.2	An Expert System for Designing Bar-Mesh Modules of Reinforced Concrete Structures - AUREMSYS J.-J. Kim, J.-H. Kim, D.-Y. Lee, K.-H. Lee, K.-R. Kim and S.-J. Hong	241
9.3	A Knowledge-based System Approach for Code Checking of Cross-Sections in Steel Structures According to Eurocode 3 J. de Gelder and M. Steenhuis	253
9.4	Knowledge based Systems Applied to Real-Time Structural Monitoring A. Goodier and S. Matthews	263

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