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Building design is a complex process because of the number of elements and issues involved and the number of relationships that exist among them. Adding sustainability issues to the list increases the complexity of design by an order of magnitude. There is a need for computer assistance to manage the increased complexity of design and to provide intelligent collaboration in formulating acceptable design solutions. Software development technology today offers opportunities to design and build an intelligent software system environment that can serve as a reliable intelligent partner to the human designer. In this paper the authors discuss the requirements for an intelligent software design environment, explain the major challenges in designing this environment, propose an architecture for an intelligent design support system for sustainable design and present the existing technologies that can be used to implement that architecture.
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Pohl, J., Assal, H., Pohl, K.J. (2010). Intelligent Software for Ecological Building Design. In: Phillips-Wren, G., Jain, L.C., Nakamatsu, K., Howlett, R.J. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Decision Technologies. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14616-9_2
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