increase of a critical resource - energy - will force unforeseen changes in production and in distribution of goods, affecting … the whole productive matrix - including employment. Not only new products and distribution systems based on higher energy … - will need to be replaced almost entirely by sustainable sources - an extraordinarily complex enterprise that should consume …

Agent and multiagent systems are nowadays a very active field of research although it has emerged in eighties. This … field is in fact a very multidisciplinary field since it is sustained by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed Systems … some important facets as cooperation, coordination, planning and communication. " Le thème des systèmes multiagents (SMA …

Current planning practice takes little account of the interdisciplinary, iterative nature of the building design … cost penalties in both design and construction. The analytical design planning technique (ADePT) is a planning methodology …