This study provides data on behavior associated with the redesign of a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The unit was designed to reduce the amount of time staff spent walking, so they could focus on activities supporting infants and their families. Access to natural light and windows were also provided in response to research indicating that exposure to natural light and views impacts healt...

CEP June 2007 www.aiche.org/cep 53 During the past few decades, pollution prevention and control has assumed a prominent role in the chemical engineering profession. Its study has become part of chemical engineering curricula throughout the world, and a new section on waste treatment has been added to “Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook.” The major responsibility for an operating plant’s clea...

Natural language requirements specifications form the basis for the subsequent phase of the information system development process, namely the development of conceptual schemata. Both, the textual as well as the conceptual representations are not really appropriate for being thoroughly captured and validated by the ‘requirement holders’, i.e. the end users. Therefore, in our approach the textua...

This paper describes KOALA, a design system with primary focus on the predesign stage of architectural design. KOALA combines object-agent technology with high level representation to form a partnership between the human designer and the computer-based design environment. A diverse taxonomy of agents including Domain agents. Space agents, and Monitor agents work in a collaborative fashion to pr...

There are few and incipient proposals about semi-automatic generation of conceptual schemas (specially class diagram) from Spanish verbal models. However, for other languages like English, French and German, among others, there are more experience. In this paper, we discuss class diagram generation based on KCPM (Klagenfurt Conceptual Predesign Model), from Spanish, and we apply it to a case st...

This paper builds on twin assumptions that human behavior and physical places influence one another, and that design and planning should therefore be sensitive to the users of the built environment. Sociologists have a key role to play in shaping the built environment: they can bring the users' concerns to the design and planning process. Predesign research, research on the design process, and ...

Today web application development is under the pressure of evolving business needs, compressed timelines, and limited resources. These dynamics demand a streamlined set of tools that turns concepts into reality and minimises the gap between the original business requirements and the final physical implementation of the web application. This paper will demonstrate how this gap can be reduced by ...