VIrtual Collaborative Building Design Environment Using Software Agents
Ibrahim Fahdah, Walid Tizani · 2006
This paper describes an architecture for virtual collaborative building design system based on software agents. The environment helps the design team to work collaboratively and concurrently on a centralised shared model and carries out all necessary communication and data exchange electronically. The environment has been im-plemented in a prototype application as server-client model using.NET technologies. Virtual reality is used for visualisation and to allow for intuitive interaction with the designers. Software agents are used to carry out communication and design activities. The current implementation has shown the potential of the used technolo-gies to support a practical virtual collaboration.