Intelligent Decision Support System for Layout Design

Abstract

Abstract. Layout Design is a complex, vague and ill-structured problem that requires intelligent and sophisticated decision support. Inadequate information availability, cognitive biases and competing preferences hamper appropriation of a superior outcome. It is therefore desirable to develop an intelligent system for layout design that deals with such challenging issues and provides efficient means of generating, analyzing and manipulating superior alternative layouts. We present a framework for building an interactive Intelligent Expert System for Decision Support in Layout Design based on Soft Computing tools. The proposed framework and the prototype system contribute to the field of decision support in the layout design by enabling explicit representation of experts ’ knowledge and formal modeling of fuzzy user preferences. Such a system is expected to facilitate the economic and ergonomic efficiency of layout designers, superiority of outcome, and future research in related areas