System Architecture for Computer-aided Building Engineering Task-acqu

Building engineering is one of the keystones to economic competitiveness. As a consequence, computational models for planning and design are important research topics. To meet the expectation that computer-aid enables to produce better designs in shorter time, the tools built on these models need to be fully integrated into the work ow of architects. The paper presents the architecture of a planning and design support system for building engineering. The architecture is highly interactive. It is adaptive to the tasks to be tackled, the particularities of the domain, and the preferences of users. The huge amount of knowledge necessary to support planning and design is acquired automatically, i.e., without bordering the user to answer thousands of questions. Figure 1 sketches the system architecture inclusive the human{system interaction. Modules are represented by boxes. Input and output data are denoted by arrows.