@conference {1502495,
	title = {A Multi-Agent Systems for Design Simulation Framework: Experiments with Virtual-Physical-Social Feedback for Architecture },
	booktitle = {Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD 2015)},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {This paper presents research on the development of multiagent systems (MAS) for integrated and performance driven
architectural design. It presents the development of a
simulation framework that bridges architecture and
engineering, through a series of multi-agent based
experiments. The research is motivated to combine multiple
design agencies into a system for managing and optimizing
architectural form, across multiple objectives and contexts.
The research anticipates the incorporation of feedback from
real world human behavior and user preferences with physics
based structural form finding and environmental analysis
data. The framework is a multi-agent system that provides
design teams with informed design solutions, which
simultaneously optimize and satisfy competing design
objectives. The initial results for building structures are
measured in terms of the level of lighting improvements and
qualitatively in geometric terms. Critical to the research is
the elaboration of the system and the feedback loops that are
possible when using the multi-agent systems approach.},
	author = {D. J. Gerber and E. Pantazis and L. S. Marcolino and A. Heydarian}
}
