In the last decade, the paradigm Historical Building Information Modeling (HBIM) was
investigated to exploit the possibilities offered by the application of BIM to historical …

This paper addresses questions of universality related to ontological engineering, namely
aims at substantiating (negative) answers to the following three basic questions:(i) Is there a …

We present an approach to assist the smart environment design process by means of
automated validation of work-in-progress designs. The approach facilitates validation of not …

In cognitive science, image schemas are identified as fundamental patterns of cognition.
They are schematic prelinguistic conceptualisations of events and serve as conceptual …

Form, function and the relationship between the two serve a crucial role in design. Within
architectural design, key aspects of the anticipated function of buildings, or of spatial …

The articulation of the Science of Design by Herbert Simon and the paradigmatic relevance
of Artificial Intelligence in that context are closely intertwined topics: Simon elaborates the …

Compared with typical outdoor spaces, indoor spaces are clustered and have a fragmented
social structure and diverse groups use the space in different ways, which results in different …

Ancient Chinese architecture from the Song dynasty is a prominent example of the ancient
oriental architectures. The cai-fen system was a module system used for the carpentry of …

Modularity is being increasingly used as an approach to solve for the information overload
problem in ontologies. It eases cognitive complexity for humans, and computational …

In this paper an evolutionary technique is proposed as a method for generating new design
solutions with genotypes represented in the form of hierarchical hypergraphs. Such …