As editors of this volume we would like to express our gratitude to the
contributing authors who have delivered these highly relevant and
inspiring chapters and to the international scientific committee for
their help in the review and editing. Special thanks go to our
colleagues Mandy van de Sande, Marlyn Aretz, and Leo van Veghel, who
were great in organising the conference and took care of everything that
made it a pleasant and comfortable event. Eindhoven, July 2004 Jos van
Leeuwen and Harry Timmermans Conference Chairs x DDSS 2004 INTERNATIONAL
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Alan Bridges, UK Kees Dorst, NL Aleksander
Asanowicz, PL Luca Caneparo, IT Aloys Borgers, NL Mark Clayton, USA
Anders Ekholm, SE Mark Gross, USA Andy Brown, UK Michael Batty, UK
Anthony Yeh, HK Milton Tan, SG Ardeshir Mahdavi, AT Mitsuo Morozumi, JP
Atsuyuki Okabe, JP Nancy Cheng, USA Bauke de Vries, NL Omer Akin, USA
Bob Martens, AT Philip Steadman, UK Dirk Donath, DE Pierre Leclercq, BE
Frances Brazier, NL Ray Wyatt, AU Gilles Halin, FR Richard Klosterman,
USA Guilermo Vásquez de Velasco, USA Rivka Oxman, IL Hannu Penttila, FI
Robert Woodbury, CA Henri Achten, NL Sevil Sariyildiz, NL Jin-Yeu Tsou,
HK Sheng-Fen Chien, TW Joachim Kieferle, DE Stefania Bandini, IT Johan
Verbeke, BE Tay-Sheng Jeng, TW John Stillwell, UK Theo Arentze, NL José
Duarte, PT Thomas Kvan, HK José Kós, BR Wassim Jabi, USA INTRODUCTION
The International Conference on Design & Decision Support Systems in
Architecture and Urban Planning is organised bi-annually by the
Eindhoven
