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Conference Program 2011

Monday 26th, 2012
 
Keynotes
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM SpringSim General Keynotes
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM SimAUD Welcome
 
Materials
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM A new material practice - Integrating design and material behavior
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Decision Support System Approach for Construction Materials Selection
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Break
 
Early Stages of Design Process
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Design Optioneering: Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization through Parameterization, Domain Integration and Automation of a Genetic Algorithm
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM A Spatial Query & Analysis Tool for Architects
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Combining sensitivity analysis with parametric modeling to inform early design
Tuesday 27th, 2012
 
Keynotes
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM SpringSim and SimAUD general keynote:
Buildings and Energy: New Priorities, New Directions
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break
 
Design & Analysis 1
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM A Multi-Sensor Based Occupancy Estimation Model for Supporting Demand Driven HVAC Operations
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Preliminary Investigation of the Use of Sankey Diagrams to Enhance Building Performance Simulation-Supported Design
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Automated Translation of Architectural Models for Energy Simulation
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
 
Design & Analysis 2
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Dynamic Annual Metrics for Contrast in Daylit Architecture
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Performance Driven Design and Simulation Interfaces: A Multi-Objective Parametric Optimization Process
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Climatic based consideration of Double skin Façade system- comparative analysis of energy performance of a Double Skin Facade Building in Boston
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM A visual - performative language of façade patterns for the Connected Sustainable Home
 
Urban Planning
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Urban Network Analysis: A new toolbox for measuring city form in ArcGIS
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM The parametric exploration of spatial properties - Coupling parametric geometry modeling and the graph-based spatial analysis of urban street networks
 
Dinner
TBD - TBD SimAUD Dinner
Wednesday 28th, 2012
 
Presentations
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Invited talk
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Break
 
Work in Progress
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Spatial Simulation Model of Urban Retail System
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM Automatic Building Design with Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Neural Networks
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM Visualization Framework of Thermal Comfort for Architects
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM Experimental validation of simulation software for daylight evaluation in street canyons
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM A morpho-energetic tool to model energy and density reasoned city areas: description of the methodology (Part I)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
 
Workshop
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM DEVS Workshop
Thursday 29th, 2012
 
Tour
TBD - TBD Tour of NASA (space limited)