THE CONTINUOUS SEARCH SPACE DESIGN METHOD (CSSDM)

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Title

THE CONTINUOUS SEARCH SPACE DESIGN METHOD (CSSDM) (EN)

Creator

VIRIRAKIS, L (EN)

Type

journalArticle (EN)

Partial document
Publication in journal (EN)

Article
Scientific article (EN)

Issued

2014-03-01T01:42:16Z

1993 (EN)

Year

1993 (EN)

Description

In this paper a formal method is presented in which architectural design is considered as a problem-solving activity. The particular feature of the proposed method is that the search space is defined as continuous, without restricting or violating the emergence of qualitative features of a solution. This makes it possible to define architectural design as a problem, in a general way, and to apply a heuristic search strategy capable of overcoming complexity constraints, even in search spaces of large dimensionality. The method is called the 'continuous search space design method' or CSSDM. A technique for representing the search space as continuous, a language for formulating the solution-evaluation criterion, and a heuristic technique for producing acceptable solutions, followed by experimental results, are presented. (EN)

Scientific field

Environmental Studies (EN)

Social Sciences ▶ Social and Economic Geography
Environmental Studies (EN)

Subject

ABSTRACTION (EN)

MODELS (EN)

KNOWLEDGE (EN)

LAYOUT (EN)

SYSTEMS (EN)

GENERATION (EN)

Journal

ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING B-PLANNING & DESIGN (EN)