International Postdoctoral Fellows: An International Perspective on the Creation and Use of Design Criteria

9403212 Hansen该奖项是国际青年研究员和博士后研究员计划的一部分，它使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外公认的卓越研究中心进行三到十二个月的研究。该计划的奖励为联合研究提供了机会，并利用独特或互补的设施、专业知识和国外的实验条件。该奖项将支持Karen L. Hansen博士与格拉斯哥斯特拉斯克莱德大学的Iain a . MacLeod教授进行为期12个月的博士后研究访问。Hansen博士建议在欧洲背景下研究客户、工程师和建筑师制定设计标准的现有方法；为计算机化的设计标准知识库创建框架，包括根据已完成的设计检查设计标准的方法；并为设计标准的创建和使用的方法论的综合研究计划的发展奠定基础。创建一个以知识为基础的计算机系统的好处将是欧洲公司使用的知识获取方法的形式化，确定他们使用的设计标准的内容，将这些信息传播到欧洲和美国的建筑工业，并改进处理需求的方法，从而提高设计输出的质量。＊＊＊

9403212 Hansen This award is under the International Junior Investigator and Postdoctoral Fellows Program, which enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twelve months of research abroad at research centers of proven excellence. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twelve-month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Karen L. Hansen to work with Professor Iain A. MacLeod of Strathclyde University in Glasgow. Dr. Hansen proposes to study existing approaches to the development of design criteria by clients, engineers, and architects within a European context; create a framework for a computerized design criteria knowledge base, including a method for checking design criteria against completed design; and form a basis for the development of a comprehensive research program on methodology for the creation and use of design criteria. The benefits of creating a knowledge-based computer system will be a formalization of knowledge acquisition methods used by European firms, identification of the content of design criteria used by them, dissemination of this information to the European and U.S. building industry, and improved methodology for handling requirements leading to higher quality design output. ***