Print Email Facebook Twitter Soft Computing in Construction Information Technology Title Soft Computing in Construction Information Technology Author Ciftcioglu, O. Durmisevic, S. Sariyildiz, S. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Date 2001-05-30 Abstract The last decade, civil engineering has exercised a rapidly growing interest in the application of neurally inspired computing techniques. The motive for this interest was the promises of certain information processing characteristics, which are similar to some extend, to those of human brain. The immediate examples of these include an ability to learn and generalize. In parallel to this and further developments in the information systems technology, established the essential motivation that the construction industry should benefit from these developments for enhanced and effective executions. Today such information processing methods are collectively referred to as soft computing (SC). Explicitly, soft computing is an emerging approach to computing which parallels the remarkable ability of the human mind to reason and learn in an environment of certainty and imprecision. SC consists of several computing paradigms, including neural networks, fuzzy set theory, approximate reasoning and combinatorial optimization methods such as genetic algorithms. SC finds important applications in diverse disciplines. As a branch of artificial intelligence, soft computing is closely related to computational intelligence where in essence SC methods are implemented by machine learning techniques. Paper deals with SC in the context of construction information technology (CIT) pointing out the important role it can play. It exemplifies the SC applications in CIT supported by pilot implementations, which are carried out as a part of ongoing departmental research program. Subject soft computingneural networksfuzzy logicgenetic algorithmsIT To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:21126e18-7e30-4ee9-a429-a187c3be5c5c Publisher CIB Source CIB-W78 International Conference: IT in Constuction in Africa, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 30 May-1 June 2001 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2001 The Author(s) Files PDF 00000013_soft_computing_i ... uction.pdf 195.61 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:21126e18-7e30-4ee9-a429-a187c3be5c5c/datastream/OBJ/view