Abstract
There have been growing demands of supporting tools for facility management to cope with rapidly increasing and diversifying offices. The authors have proposed a supporting system for office zoning as the first half of the process of the office plane planning. The authors also study a case utilizing system to utilize cases of furniture layouts as the latter half of the plane planning. For the utilization of the cases, the selection of indexs and the method for case retrieval are important.This paper presents new methods for indexation and knowledge acquisition for the case retrieval for the case utilizing system. For the selection of the indexes, a field study of office layouts is done. Important factors for the evaluation of the layouts are chosen and a fuzzy number for each factor is used to index the cases of office layouts. A fuzzy inference is employed to retrieve the cases. For acquiring the weights on the fuzzy rules, the knowledge acquisition support system with a presentation of suggestions proposed by the authors is applied. For demonstrating the feasibility of the proposed methods, simulations are done. Moreover, the supporting system for office zoning and the case utilizing system of furniture layouts are integrated on the CAD-system. Demonstration of the integrated system is shown.
