Construction planners on every project are faced with a unique task of spatially organizing site activities with effective space utilization. This is a crucial planning exercise that if effectively rehearsed then can attribute to increased workers productivity, minimized construction accidents, improved delivery of project on time. One of the major issues in traditional project management tools...

We envision future office buildings that partly or fully implement a flexible office organization, i.e. office space is assigned dynamically on request. These organizational principles save office space, but require a sophisticated software system that is highly dynamic, scalable, context-aware and self-organizing by means of selfconfiguration, self-optimization and self-healing. We propose an ...

We introduce a new type of Self-Organizing Map (SOM) to navigate in the Semantic Space of large text collections. We propose a “hyperbolic SOM” (HSOM) based on a regular tesselation of the hyperbolic plane, which is a non-euclidean space characterized by constant negative gaussian curvature. The exponentially increasing size of a neighborhood around a point in hyperbolic space provides more fre...

A process is described for selecting the subset of internal models needed to perform situation assessment and organizing them in a representation we designate a mental space. A cognitive framework is proposed that supports the interacting processes of mental space construction and situation assessment. This framework is consistent with a set of design principles derived from a range of psycholo...

Self organizing map technique is often used to analyse the data in multi-dimensional space. Basis of this technique is a non-linear projection from multi-dimensional space onto two-dimensional grid of neurons (map). The projection, which is topology preserving but not metric preserving, is achieved via non-linear algorithm known as training. The fundamental property of the trained network is th...