Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering

SECTION 1: AI IN CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE A unified approach for complex problem solving: Method integration; Integrated prediction support tool for water tide predictions; Integrated building design decision support with fuzzy logic; Usability of intelligent agent systems in urban traffic control; Knowledge-based generation of the assembly order of elements in wooden construction; The use of expert systems, hypertext and spreadsheets in construction. SECTION 2: DESIGN Applying AI to preliminary design of buildings; Optimum design with intelligent control of a log manipulator; Genetic graph drawing; Producing designs of physical systems through model transmutations; Performance tests on several parametric representations for an Arabic phoneme recognition system using HMMs; Towards a graphical and real-time network simulation toolset; Automatic configuration of chromosomes for genetic algorithm - based optimization in well-defined design problems; A search method in knowledge-based systems using euclidean spacenorm - An application to design of robot grippers; Assessing the sustainability of projects: A fuzzy approach; An integrated framework for the specification and design of reprographic machines; Design of retaining walls: System uncertainty & fuzzy safety measures; Application of neural network in modelling of relationships between hardenability and chemical composition of the constructional alloy steels; Application of artificial neural networks for internal combustion engine thermal cycle analyze. SECTION 3: ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Further study of control system for reservoir operation aided by neutral networks and fuzzy set theory; Genetic algorithm encoding probabilities & population size. SECTION 4: PROCESS CONTROL Multi-agent systems for modelling of self-organization and cooperation processes; SPARSE - a prolog based application for the portuguese transmission network: Some important aspects for practical use; A novel firing rule for training Kohonen self-organising maps; Recent advances in intelligent inspection of wood boards; 3D motion decomposition and linear estimation in the presence of spatial uncertainties; Development of an intelligent alarm processor for electric power plants. SECTION 5: AI TOOLS Chaotic prediction of rainfall with radar data and neural network; A feed-forward neural network approach to edge detection; Web-based delivery of AI/expert system courses in engineering education; A fuzzy recurrent neural network of binary neurons for content addressable memory; A rule-base result analyst tool for simulation models of computer systems; On the automatic synthesis of functional dependency graphs from libraries of component models; A general problem solving system for engineering; An architecture for knowledge discovery in complex telecommunication systems; An artificial neural network approach to software testing effort estimation; Cellular automata show the way to safer engineering decisions; Applying SQL techniques on inference mechanisms of expert systems; Techniques for distributed intelligence and internet connectivity on home automation networks. SECTION 6: FAULT DIAGNOSIS Towards guiding fault diagnosis based on experience; Hierarchically structured inductive learning for fault diagnosis; Fault diagnosis using a decision tree of simple modular neural networks. SECTION 7: MANUFACTURING Knowledge acquisition for production system design by mapping distinct conceptual knowledge pools; A fuzzy cognitive map based intelligent system for reengineering manufacturing systems; A knowledge-based system (KBS) to improve bore geometry.