sustainable purchasing and consuming clothes is a massive trend worldwide due to the great amount of production, its complications and also the active role of women; and is specifically so among young population of iran, though the country is moving towards sustainable development. this article aims to investigate the degree of awareness of the notion of sustainability and its impact on the pur...

The use of metaphors in design can help students reflect over a problem situation under an innovative point of view. During their design studies, students are supposed to acquire design skills, gain knowledge and enhance their level of expertise. This research explores the aid provided by metaphors in design problem solving, and its relationship to the development of design expertise. Empirical...

Computational models are useful tools for exploring the nature of human cognitive processes. In particular, connectionist models are providing researchers with new ways of thinking about the basic nature of cognition and its implementation in the brain. They support novel explanations of important aspects of perception, memory, language, thought and cognitive development, and allow cognitive pr...

today,  iran is faced with a considerable amount of old and timeworn textures. based on  the estimates of  the ministry of  housing and urban development, there are more than 50,000 hectares of urban  old texture in iran, that  due to the lack of credits and understanding of quality and characteristics of such regions, the government has faced with several problems in planning and defusing the ...

Rapid urbanization has brought environmentally, socially, and economically great challenges to cities and societies. To build a sustainable city, these challenges need to be faced efficiently and successfully. This paper focuses on the environmental issues and investigates the ecological approaches for planning sustainable cities through a comprehensive review of the relevant literature. The re...

Many planning applications must address conflicting plan objectives, such as cost, risk, duration, and resource consumption and decision makers want to know the possible trade-offs. Traditionally, such problems are solved by invoking a single-objective algorithm (such as A*) on multiple, alternative preferences of the objectives to identify non-dominated plans. The less-popular alternative is t...