Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

This book contains the summaries of the contributed papers presented at the Ninth International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, held in St.

Julians, Malta, 18-21 September 2007. The full length papers are available in electronic format on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Topics covered include: Knowledge Engineering; Genetic Algorithms in Civil and Structural Engineering; Soft Computing Tools for Structural Optimisation; Soft Computing: Damage, Control and Seismic Engineering; Soft Computing: Geotechnical Engineering; Neural Networks: Structural Mechanics; Neural Networks: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Neural Networks: Materials Modelling; Ant Colony Optimisation; Cellular Automata; Data Mining.