A parametric shape grammar is given for the generation of Hepplewhite-style chair-back

This article addresses the problem of mathematical modelling of the operation of urban passenger transport, a problem that has great practical importance for both the design of urban transport networks and the organisation of transport services for the urban population. It demonstrates that a...

This article distinguishes design research that is concerned with further developments of existing formal systems from fundamental research in technical or geometrical fields that is capable of opening up new form-generating programmes. A historical discussion includes analysis of an early...

This paper examines general principles of the approach to mathematical modelling of the urban system adopted in the authors' work on Moscow. It describes the formal model that has been constructed of spatial interactions between the city's functional subsystems, and indicates the general...

This paper presents one variant upon the use of models in the processes of managing a city as a large system.It outlines the advantages and the field of application of semiotic modelling, whose methodology makes it possible to build up semiotic (sign) models of the objects to be managed on the...

Architectural plans whose walls lie along two perpendicular directions are represented by rectangular shapes. The rectangular shapes are classified according to the types of endpoints and the intersection of their component maximal lines. Shape grammars are used to construct members of the...

One mathematical correspondence to the partitioning of the plane is a weighted plane graph (WPG). This paper first focuses on the systematic generation of WPGs, in a fashion similar to crystal growth. During this process, the WPGs are represented by adjacency matrices. We, thus, present a method...

A wide variety of practical problems in design, planning, and management can be formulated as quadratic assignment problems, and this paper discusses this class of problem. Since algorithms for producing optimal solutions to such problems are computationally infeasible for all but small problems...

It is argued that acknowledgement of complexity is followed by feelings of helplessness which generate three distinct policymaking styles. These three, labelled analytical abdication, analytical alchemy, and analytical addiction, are outlined in terms of their logical bases, strengths, and...