Volume I: 653 pages - Publisher: Springer; Reprint of the original 1st (1992) edition (December 3, 2010)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 9048142016 - ISBN-13: 978-9048142019
Volume II: 354 pages - Publisher: Springer; Reprint of the original 1st (1992) edition (December 8, 2010)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 9048142024 - ISBN-13: 978-9048142026
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.