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Software agent techniques in design

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Artificial Intelligence in Structural Engineering

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This paper briefly presents studies of software agent techniques and outline aspects of these which can be applied in design agents in integrated civil engineering design environments.

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Hartvig, S.C. (1998). Software agent techniques in design. In: Smith, I. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Structural Engineering. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1454. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0030470

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