Automated design of house-floor layout with distributed planning

doi:10.1016/0010-4485(90)90050-M

Computer-Aided Design

Volume 22, Issue 4, May 1990, Pages 213-222

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Abstract

Floor layout is one kind of space-planning problem. The problem is to create two-dimensional layouts based on topological, geometrical, functional and aesthetic constraints. Because of the combinationally explosive nature of the search problem, it is impossible to search exhaustively to find a solution. In the paper, a distributed planning model is devised. Constrained inference operators are used for searching and reasoning in the solution space. Interactions between subproblems after incomplete decomposition are eliminated through bargaining and negotiation operators. Some properties of the proposed method are discussed. In the Appendix, an example of house-floor layout produced by developed system is shown.

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Automated design of house-floor layout with distributed planning

Abstract

Artif. Intell.

Comput.-Aided Des.

Artif. Intell. Eng.

Artif. Intell.

Abstraction as a tool of automated floor-plan design

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

An investigation of opportunistic constraints satisfaction in space planning