ARPHA Proceedings 7: 297-308, doi: 10.3897/ap.7.e0297
A Multi Objective Rule – Based Decision Support System of Marble Selection for Residential Buildings in Jordan
expand article infoAbdulsalam Alshboul
Open Access
Abstract
Selecting finishing building materials is a hard task to the architect due to the many variables affecting such process, as more than one dominating objective may arise, such as achieving sustainability, aesthetic, economic factors, social factors, environmental impact context and many other factors. This article will try to develop a multi objective rule-based system that enables the architect to select the most suitable marble type suitable to a specific project in relation to desired specific objectives. A multi layered data storage will be based upon the data collected from Jordanian market regarding, cost, environmental impact, maintenance, replacement period, installation expertise for each type of marble available in the market. The system will be based upon weighting factors technique that will compute the weighting of a list of decisions according to a preset objective being selected by the user. Also, the system will be able to recomputed weightings due to a change in the objectives accordingly. Data collection will include all the marble in the Jordanian market with all the physical, aesthetic, economic, and environmental characteristics, local or imported marbles. Data regarding the social environment of the residential sector will be reorganized so that the decision support system will be able to match users’ objectives with the best marble alternative for any specific project.
Keywords
Multi Objective Rule Based Decision Support System, marble, residential buildings, Jordan