the objective of this review to be submitted in two independent parts, for steel frames and for rc frames, is to compare their structural performance with respect to the proposed n2-method, and so also of the consequent convenience of using pushover methodology for the seismic analysis of these structures. a preliminary investigation is presented on a pushover analysis used for the seismic perf...

the objective of this review to be submitted in two independent parts, for steel frames and for rc frames, is to compare their structural performance with respect to the proposed n2-method, and so also of the consequent convenience of using pushover methodology for the seismic analysis of these structures. a preliminary investigation is presented on a pushover analysis used for the seismic perf...

This paper addresses the problem of knowledge templates update in product development. A framework is developed to support template instances update process by providing a decision support system and an update strategy. An Issue-Based Information system is designed to allow the collaboration among various experts in order to solve template related problems. An ontology is used to represent and ...

We present a methodology for building validation models the knowledge structure used during the retrieval phase of our case based reasoning systems This methodology allows a knowledge engineer to start with a textual database of previously solved cases and quickly produce an e ective case based reasoning system Using our methodology we have built two such systems one of these systems operates o...

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the most important goal of each society, is to reach economic development. as the goal and agent of development, man has got an important responsibility, which responsibility is realized by way of education, specially higher education, because the universities are the main factors for progress, production of knowledge and education of specialized human forces and they play a significant role in...