Preface

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Session 1

1

Can doors and windows become design team players?

3

Safwan Aly and Ramesh Krishnamurti

Design agents in virtual worlds

23

Mary Lou Maher and Ning Gu

User model of a personal assistant in collaborative design environments

39

Shumin Wu, Hamada Ghenniwa and Weiming Shen

Intelligent agents for concept invention of design forms

55

Rabee Reffat

Session 2

69

Role of trust in automated distributed design

71

Frances MT Brazier and Niek JE Wijngaards

Situated agent communication

85

Udo Kannengiesser and John S Gero

A complex systems perspective on how agents can support collaborative design

95

Mark Klein, Hiroki Sayama, Peyman Faratin and Yaneer Bar‑Yam

Session 3

113

Interaction and experience

115

Gregory J Smith and John S Gero

Curious agents and situated design evaluations

133

Rob Saunders and John S Gero

Session 4

151

Agent‑Based design modelling using the Visual Swarm Builder

153

Alessandro Perrone

Cellular automata models of creative situations

165

Ricardo Sosa and John S Gero

Learning from design experience in an agent‑based design system

181

Jarred Moss, Kenneth Kotovsky and Jonathan Caga

Session 5

201

An agent‑based system for capturing and indexing software design meetings

203

Tracy Hammond, Krzysztof Gajos, Randall Davis and Howard Shrobe

Analysis of a retrospective discourse explaining an actual process of designing

219

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Haruyuki Fujii

A knowledge based collaborative design environment

232

Hong Liu, Mingxi Tang and John Hamilton Frazer

Session 6

247

Explorations of a two layered a‑design system

249

Zhuo F Chen and David C Brown

An implementation model of constructive memory for a design agent

257

Pak‑San Liew and John S Gero

Author Index

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Contact Authors' Email Addresses

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