All Outputs (5)

Occupants and daylight in office buildings under sunny skies. (2004)
Conference Proceeding
BELAKEHAL, A., TABET AOUL, K. and BENNADJI, A. 2004. Occupants and daylight in office buildings under sunny skies. In Ellis, R. and Bell, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2004 International construction and building research conference (COBRA 2004), 7-8 September 2004, Leeds, UK. London: RICS Foundation.

It is expected that the climate of North Africa, one of the hottest regions of the world, will become still more extreme due to the effects of global warming. This would result in higher energy consumptions for cooling purposes in buildings. Daylight... Read More about Occupants and daylight in office buildings under sunny skies..

Escaping local optima in multi-agent oriented constraint satisfaction. (2004)
Conference Proceeding
BASHARU, M., AHRIZ, H. and ARANA, I. 2004. Escaping local optima in multi-agent oriented constraint satisfaction. In Coenen, F., Preece, A. and Macintosh, A. (eds.) Research and development in intelligent systems XX: technical proceedings of the 23rd Annual international conference of the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) (AI-2003), 15-17 December 2003, Cambridge, UK. London: Springer [online], pages 97-110. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-412-8_8

We present a multi-agent approach to constraint satisfaction where feedback and reinforcement are used in order to avoid local optima and, consequently, to improve the overall solution. Our approach, FeReRA, is based on the fact that an agents local... Read More about Escaping local optima in multi-agent oriented constraint satisfaction..

Building models through formal specification. (2004)
Conference Proceeding
RENKER, G. and AHRIZ, H. 2004. Building models through formal specification. In Régin, J.-C. and Rueher, M. (eds.) Integration of AI and OR techniques in constraint programming for combinatorial optimization problems: proceedings of the 1st International conference on integration of artificial intelligence and operations research techniques in constraint programming (CPAIOR 2004), 20-22 April 2004, Nice, France. Lecture notes in computer science, 3011. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 395-401. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24664-0_29

Over the past years, a number of increasingly expressive languages for modelling constraint and optimisation problems have evolved. In developing a strategy to ease the complexity of building models for constraint and optimisation problems, we have a... Read More about Building models through formal specification..

Computer aided sustainable design. (2004)
Conference Proceeding
BENNADJI, A., AHRIZ, H. and ALASTAIR, P. 2005. Computer aided sustainable design. In Proceedings of the 1st International Arab Society for Computer Aided Architecrual Design (ASCAAD) conference on computer aided architectural design(ASCAAD 2005); e-design in architecure, 22-24 February 2005, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Dhahran: ASCAAD [online], pages 125-135. Available from: http://www.ascaad.org/conference/2004/proceedings.php

One of the most important aspects architects need to consider fairly early on is that of energy saving, cost, thermal comfort and the effect on the environment in terms of CO2 emissions. At present, during the early design stage of a building, differ... Read More about Computer aided sustainable design..

Craft connexity: developing a sustainable model for future craft education. (2004)
Conference Proceeding
MALINS, J., PRESS, M. and MCKILLOP, C. 2004. Craft connexity: developing a sustainable model for future craft education. In Proceedings of the Challenging craft international conference, 8-10 September 2004, Aberdeen, UK. Aberdeen: Gray's School of Art.

Craft is an anachronism “ discuss ¦ Some twenty-five years ago, on applying for a place at a college of art to study ceramics, Julian was asked to write an essay on the above topic. Naturally he was keen to impress so he responded to the question by... Read More about Craft connexity: developing a sustainable model for future craft education..