The development of graphic based preliminary design programs is appealing because preliminary design involves the consideration of alternatives as concepts or sketches. The use of such a program would allow engineering students and new graduates to gain design experience directly, through their own trial and error. This paper describes a graphic based preliminary design program that was develop...

A quick group search optimizer (QGSO) is an intelligent optimization algorithm which has been applied in structural optimal design, including the hinged spatial structural system. The accuracy and convergence rate of QGSO are feasible to deal with a spatial structural system. In this paper, the QGSO algorithm optimization is adopted in seismic research of steel frames with semi-rigid connection...

A task that is unfamiliar and non-routine is sometimes characterized as having high structural complexity. Through increasing the task performer’s knowledge, informing processes can have a significant impact on structural complexity—as well as being impacted by it. The present paper examines the structural complexity construct, which can be further broken down into state complexity, operator co...

In a knowledge-based economy, if an enterprise has adept knowledge management, an increasingaccumulation of intellectual capital, and is able to improve organizational performance, it can master competition of the future. The major purpose of this study is to validate and understand the impact of knowledge management, of the listed IC design houses in Taiwan, on organizational performance, usin...

In today’s knowledge economy the tangible assets like intellectual capital is a foundation of sustainable growth and competitive lead. Corporations are paying more focus on value creation through these tangible assets. Better organizational performance can be ensured through effective management of firm’s intellectual capital. The main rationale of this study is to highlight the interconnection...