Shoichi Nakai

A Mobile Agent Oriented Method of Simulating the Interaction Between a Built Environment and the Occupants’ Action

The thermal comfort of a built environment in question and the nergy efficiency of the building providing the built environment is one of the spects that plays an important role in the decision making in architectural esign.. However, it is not easy to deal with the interaction between a built nvironment and actions of occupants that change the environment in a onventional way of architectural environment simulation. Focusing on the nteraction, the authors propose a method of mediating programs, which valuate the quality of a building or simulate the performance from different spects, in a Mobile Agent Oriented Community, so as to compose a module of the esign support system.

Analytical study of the main causes of damage to pile foundations during the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake

The Japanese version of this paper was published in Volume 80 Number 717, pages 1699-1706, https://doi.org/ 10.3130/aijs.80.1699 of Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering (Transactions of AIJ). The authors have obtained permission for secondary publication of the English version in another journal from the Editor of Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering (Transactions of AIJ). This paper is based on a translation of the Japanese version with slight modifications.