Book Description
This book contains the extended abstracts of the contributed papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil and Structural Engineering, held in Egmond-aan-Zee, The Netherlands, September 2003. The full-length papers are available in electronic format on the accompanying CD-ROM. The topics covered in these proceedings are wide ranging and demonstrate the extensive application of artificial intelligence to civil and structural engineering. The topics covered have been classified as intelligent structures; information technology and design; knowledge-based systems: modeling, representation, and processing; database and information systems in civil and structural engineering; effects of premeditated destructive effects on constructed facilities; genetic algorithms in civil and structural engineering; neural networks and hybrid systems in civil engineering; neural networks in civil and structural engineering; cellular automata applications in civil and structural engineering; and image processing and pattern recognition.

About the Author
Barry H. V. Topping is a professor of computational mechanics at Heriot-Watt University. He is an editor of Advances in Engineering Software and International Journal of Computers and