SEEK | Profile | Benachir Medjdoub

Dr Benachir Medjdoub

	Room 437a Maxwell Building, University of Salford, The Crescent, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT .
	b.medjdoub@salford.ac.uk
	+44 (0)161 295 6805
	http://www.buhu.salford.ac.uk/research_centres/constructit/

Key Memberships

Full Member of Research Centre: Construction Information Technology Research Centre (CITC)

From October 2009 to present.

Associate Member of Research Centre: Urban Quality Research Centre

From October 2009 to present.

Profile Summary

Digital design tools and processes in architecture Computational models of creative design Parametric design techniques Virtual and mixed reality in architecture Multi-objective optimisation techniques Constraint-based design systems

Key Publications

Authored Books

2011

May

Medjdoub, B 2011, Une approche CAO basée sur les contraintes, Les Éditions universitaires européennes edition, Les Éditions universitaires européennes, Sarrebruck, Germany.

Refereed Journal Articles

2011

Nov

Medjdoub, B 2011, 'Programming Architecture: Paul Coates' book review', Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 12, pp.463-464.

2009

Jan

Medjdoub, B 2009, 'Constraint-based Adaptation for Complex Space Configuration in Building services', ITCon, 243/2007, pp.627-636.

Edited Books

2011

Feb

Kocaturk, T & Medjdoub, B 2011, 'Distributed Intelligence in Design', John Wiley & Sons, London, UK.

Key Presence

Other Evidence of External Esteem

2006

Independent referee to the EPSRC and AHRC for Research Grant awards (2006)

Independent referee to the EPSRC and AHRC for Research Grant awards

2006

- Knowlwdge transfert partnership (KTP) (DTI/Faber and Mausell) (£50.000). 'Automatic Ceiling Void design'. (2006)

- Knowlwdge transfert partnership (KTP) (DTI/Faber and Mausell) (£50.000). 'Automatic Ceiling Void design'.

2005

- EPSRC responsive mode (£203.000), 'Adaptive Multi-objective Heuristic and Metaheuristic Approachs to Space Allocation: Diagrammatic Project Plan'. (2005)

- EPSRC responsive mode (£203.000), 'Adaptive Multi-objective Heuristic and Metaheuristic Approachs to Space Allocation: Diagrammatic Project Plan'.

2004

- New Lecturer Grant, University of Nottingham (£30.000), 'Mobile Device for an Augmented Reality System in Architecture'. (2004)

- New Lecturer Grant, University of Nottingham (£30.000), 'Mobile Device for an Augmented Reality System in Architecture'.

2003

- EPSRC CASE studentship (£40.000), 'Application of Aerial Thermography Data to Energy Conservation in the Built Environment'. (completed successfully) (2003)

- EPSRC CASE studentship (£40.000), 'Application of Aerial Thermography Data to Energy Conservation in the Built Environment'. (completed successfully)

2002

- EPSRC new lecturer grant (£60.000), 'Building Services Standard Solutions implemented in CAD: Design of Ceiling Void Solutions'. (2002)

- EPSRC new lecturer grant (£60.000), 'Building Services Standard Solutions implemented in CAD: Design of Ceiling Void Solutions'.

Other Research Activity

2012

Program Committee member, 3rd International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, Funchal, Madeira - Portugal, 2008.

2005

Invited referee in Journal of Urban Design (2005) (2005)

Invited referee in Journal of Urban Design (2005)

2003

Advisory Board member Smart Geometry conference, Churchill College, Cambridge 2003. (http://www.smartgeometry.com/) (2003)

Advisory Board member Smart Geometry conference, Churchill College, Cambridge 2003. (http://www.smartgeometry.com/)

2002

Advisory Board member of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design (1998-2000). (2002)

Advisory Board member of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design (1998-2000).

2002

Advisory Board member of eSMART conference 2002. (2002)

Advisory Board member of eSMART conference 2002.