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of Contents
Editorial
Khaldoun Zreik, Reza Beheshti and Oqba Fakoush
Augmented
Heritage: A Sustainable ICT Challenge
Khaldoun Zreik and Reza Beheshti
Prodomea
IT Tool
Antonella Grossi, José Delgado Rodrigues, Talal Akili,
Angela Chahoud, Andrea
Bulgarelli
and Mouffak Doughman
Fusing Laser Scanning and Photogrammetry Creating Close Range
Architectural
Orthoimages
Bjorn van Genechten and Herman Neuckermans
MArCo:
A Knowledge-Based Architectural Reconstruction System for
Hypothesis Testing
Didier Boucard
Extracting
and Exploring Aggregates of Web Documents with Experimental
Visualisation Tools
Franck Ghitalla, Fabien Pfaender and Camille Maussang
ICT
and the Ancient City of Byblos: A New Direction for the Communication
of Intangible Heritage
Giovanni de Paoli and Nada El-Khoury
Digital
Historical Reconstruction: Case Studies of an Interdisciplinary
Task
Han Vandevyvere, Herman Neuckermans and Krista De Jonge
Optimization
of Repetitive Cycles on Building Sites with Genetic Algorithms
Hind Aljazaerli and Jean Claude Mangin
What
Can Cognitive Science Bring To Design Computing?
John Gero
Spatiality
and Virtuality: Perception Virtual Urban Environments
Mohamed Alaa Mandour
Creating
Constructive Online Educational Environment
Mona Abdel Fattah Younes
Interactive
installations on the threshold of built heritage
Nadia Mounajjed, Chengzhi Peng and Stephen Walker
NGI
Technologies for the Integration and Presentation of Construction
Management Information
Edwin Dado, Reza Beheshti and Hennes de Ridder
Integration
of Uncertainties in the Assessment of Green Buildings
Reem Essa, Youssef Diab and Denis Morand
The
Use of ICT to Support Urban Heritage Appraisal
Rima El Hassan and Hisham Elkadi
Revival
of Courtyard’s Type through Sustainable Mixed-Use Buildings
…
Roula Ntefeh, Christian Marenne and Daniel Siret
Building
Design Using Geometrical Patterns
Sevil Sariyildiz
A
Comparative Study in Using Virtual Environments for Urban
Daylight Analysis
Souha Tahrani, Guillaume Moreau and Philippe Woloszyn
The
Living Archive
Urs Hirschberg, Christian Fröhlich, Wenzel Wondra and
Ulrich Reiterer
Three
Layered Agents Evaluators for Three Layered Structural Optimisation
Problems in A Multi Agents Structural Tool ………………
Cherif Branki, Tilmann Bitterberg, Alan Bridges, Adam Borkowski
and Ewa Grabska
Applying
Genetic Algorithms for Optimisation of Repetitive Activities
Scheduling Mohammed Al Joma and Jean-Claude Mangin
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Editorial
The
span of this book covers sciences and technologies for the
intelligent and reliable perception, study and use of cultural
heritage that we called Augmented Heritage (AH). Being involved
in a AH problematic, will imply using and adapting the hottest
technologies (existing or emerging) that will enable researchers
and users of cultural heritage issues to explore ‘real-virtual’
information in real-time. Moreover, we claim that Augmented
Heritage is an ICT challenge. AH is a powerful and innovative
learning environment in the study, presentation and understanding
of cultural heritage ascertained through multi-sensory ways
of technology-enhanced AH.
Augmented Heritage is the principal theme of the 10th EuropIA
International Conference that focuses on the following statement:
How ICT can be used for the past to re-live and to conserve
the architecture, art and culture. For instance Virtual
Reality has been a powerful medium in this regard and can
be much more when coupled with knowledge engineering. Contributions
in this book have addressed one of the following domains:
- Theory (covering philosophy and methodologies)
- Application (scenario's, case-studies and tools)
- Education (learning and teaching to this end)
EuropIA 10 shows that dealing with Augmented Heritage concept
requires the involvement of various disciplines: Archaeological
Study, Architecture Design, Building Construction, Civil
Engineering, Ecology, Economy, Environment, Sociology, Software
Engineering, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Development
and Urban Planning. Although all these disciplines have
not been represented directly, they are omnipresent in several
papers and often in the round-table discussions of the conference.
Application of advanced technologies in Augmented Heritage
is the main goal of this conference. The multidisciplinary
contributions have been focused on the following topics:
Archiving, Computer Graphics, Documentation, eBook, Information
Retrieval, Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning, Modelling
Approaches, Multimedia, Pattern Recognition, Perception,
Reconstruction (2D, 3D), Virtual Library, Virtual Reality,
etc.
In sum, ‘Toward a Heritage Mining’ is the key
issue of Augmented Heritage. Achieving this goal requires
high level of experimental analysis approaches built upon
a synthesis of multidisciplinary know-how and knowledge.
The host of the 10th EuropIA International Conference is
the University of Damascus in Syria (13-15 September 2005).
EuropIA.10 follows the path of a successful tradition of
international platforms that since 1988 have dealt with
all issues related to design sciences and technology. Previous
conferences have been: EuropIA 1 (1988, Paris, France),
EuropIA 2 (1990, Liége, Belgium), EuropIA 3 (1991,
Athens, Greece), EuropIA 4 (1993, Delft, Netherlands), EuropIA
5 (1995, Lyon, France), EuropIA.6 (1997, Edinburgh, United
Kingdom), EuropIA 7 (1998, Paris, France), EuropIA 8a &
EuropIA8b (2001, Delft, Netherlands) and EuropIA 9a &
EuropIA 9b (2003, Istanbul, Turkey).
The EuropIA Conferences are organized as a cross-platform
for the study and analysis of the application of the information,
communication and computer technologies to architecture,
archaeology, building engineering, civil engineering, urban
design and policy analysis. What makes this conference unique
is the interaction of different disciplines regarding their
approach, methods and techniques for the application of
advanced technologies. Specifics of disciplines are not
the subject of the conference but serve as cases. Cross-platform
discussions and interactions help to enhance scope of these
technologies beyond their existing application limits. Furthermore,
we seek a discussion of terms and conditions for introducing
new tools (offered by the latest technology developments)
and new strategies (required by the inevitable changes of
the professional and educational working environments of
architecture, archaeology, building engineering, civil engineering,
urban design and policy analysis).
We would like to thank all who, in one way or another, directly
or indirectly, were involved in this conference. Particularly
we express our gratitude to authors of all papers appearing
in this book, members of EuropIA 10 Scientific and Organising
Committees, University of Damascus (Syria), University of
Caen (France), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands),
Nosstia (Syria), The Arab School for Sciences and Ecology
(Syria), Design Research Foundation (Netherlands) and europia
Productions (France).
Khaldoun
Zreik
Reza Beheshti
Oqba Fakoush
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