The Open University

Place
Milton Keynes
Identifier
54
Country
United Kingdom

Feasibility of representing selected elements of The 1985 Building Regulations in Prolog or other rule-based form (Ph.D. Thesis)

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This thesis evaluates the existence of a consistent and repeatable internal structure within regulations, in this case focusing on The Building Regulations of 1985. The internal structure takes on a form embodied in a series of linked data structures known as 'frames' using the Prolog computer language. Evidence for the existence of an internal structure was collected from data obtained from one year's Appeals and Determinations in a report published by the Institute of Building Control.