Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!gilbert From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: AI applications to building design and construction Message-ID: <1722@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 11 Oct 88 08:40:01 GMT References: <1587@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Reply-To: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland Lines: 20 Professor Geoffrey Trimble at Loughborough University of Technology has been associated with a number of construction industry expert systems. He has a chapter in a forthcoming book on Knowledge Elicitation edited by Dan Diaper of Liverpool Polytechic and published by Ellis Horwood. Geoffrey Trimble is Professor of Construction Management in the Department of Civil Engineering. Loughborough University of Technology is in Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK. Domain experts have been heavily involved in the coding of some of these systems, as well as the knowledge elicitation. Committment from sponsors to use a system has proved to be major factor in the succesful completion of a system. Not surprising, but important to anyone developing something in a research setting. -- Gilbert Cockton, Department of Computing Science, The University, Glasgow gilbert@uk.ac.glasgow.cs !ukc!glasgow!gilbert