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 acceptab...

in recent decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of colorectal cancer in iran, especially in patients less than 50 years old. a national colorectal cancer screening program is the best solution for identifying patients in high risk populations. the research center of gastroenterology and liver disease of shahid beheshti university, m.c., in collaboration, with the ministry...

In this paper, we discuss the various issues in designing intelligent software systems to assist worldwide-web users in locating relevant information. We identify a number of key components in such intelligent systems. These include a web document database management system, a client-based goal-directed search engine, an intelligent learning agent which discovers users’ topics of interest by st...

A crucial part of multi-agent system design is the design of agent interactions. Traditional approaches to designing agent interaction use interaction protocols, which focus on defining legal sequences of messages. Such approaches do not naturally exhibit flexibility and robustness, and are not a good match for intelligent software agents which are autonomous, proactive, flexible and robust. Th...