Digital Design Media
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
A platform for the integration of civil engineering services and tools
ICAAISE '01 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on The application of artificial intelligence to civil and structural engineering computing
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Throughout history, information and communication technologies have been supporting building projects. The paper first introduces the concept of the communication revolutions and analyses how they influenced the construction profession. It then defines the modern understanding of the terms and concepts, proposes a taxonomy of communication types and groups them into four application areas: (1) to deliver information, (2)to enable collaboration and (3) commerce and (4) to provide a platform where the core engineering work gets done. The development along those four areas is analysed by giving brief market watch as well as state of the art overviews. The author concludes, that research issues on implementing the communication technologies include not only the technical but social, legal, economical and educational problems.