Abstract
This chapter discusses the knowledge engineering and its relevance to computer-aided architectural design (CAAD). Knowledge engineering is a subfield of artificial intelligence. It is concerned with the acquisition, representation and manipulation of human knowledge in symbolic form. Knowledge engineering is primarily concerned with nonalgorithmic approaches to computer manipulation. Facts are assertions or statements about an object, event or process and which are accepted as being true. Knowledge is the relationship among facts such that when the knowledge is executed in a particular fact domain a new fact is inferred. Knowledge engineering provides novel tools in the domain of computer-aided architectural design that supplement rather than supplant the existing tools. Issues central to automated and semi-automated synthesis can at present be addressed and computationally tractable systems produced. While knowledge-based systems are certainly not a universal panacaea, they provide new directions for computer-aided architectural design which expands the role of the computer in design.
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