It has become increasingly apparent in recent years that it is not satisfactory to use deterministic mathematical models to design those aspects of a building whose performance, in reality, depend upon probablistic factors. Their analysis can be more accurately tackled by using probabilistic and...

Criteria are suggested for the aesthetic evaluation of Palladian villa plans. These criteria are applied to two catalogues of all possible plans constructed on underlying grids of sizes 3 x 3 and 5 x 3 respectively.

Plans composed from elements of rectangular grids are considered. A general approach towards the generation and enumeration of nonequivalent plans is presented. It is shown that for these plans there is a minimum colouring which permits easy detection of isomorphs without the need for external...

This paper illustrates the use of activity modelling at a detailed scale to determine the teaching space requirements for institutions such as universities or polytechnics. It is argued that traditional methods of predicting the demand for space, on the basis of a number of utilisation factors,...

This paper presents a statistical survey of distance measures over <I>n</I>-omino populations for <I>n</I> = 9. Three metrics are considered and compared: one Euclidean and two nonEuclidean metrics -- taxicab and graph. The measures are taken at three levels of aggregation: intercellular, aggregate, and total...</i></i>

This paper relates generalized measures of information to expected likelihood functions (ELFs) derived from Bayes' equation. It then demonstrates that Jaynes' formalism may be extended to formulate a class of minimally-prejudiced models of which those derived from Shannon's measure are but a...

This paper, the third of a sequence, provides illustrations of the theoretical concepts which have been introduced in the previous two papers. Each example points to the need for a hierarchical collection of sets <nobr><I>X</I>, <I>X'</I>,</nobr> <nobr><I>X´´</I>,...,</nobr> where for example <I>X'</I> is a cover of <I>X</I>. At any one level, say the...</i></i></i></i></i></i>

This paper presents an exploration into the effect of symmetric structure on the equilibrium properties of a widely applied class of ergodic Markov processes. An initial discussion of the notions concerning structure and process in this context sets the scene for the statement and proof of a...

A procedure is described which generates dissections of rectangles into rectangular components in order to obtain solutions to space-allocation problems which are restricted through topological and dimensional constraints. Solutions are generated in two steps: step 1 determines basic geometric...