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SUMMARY:Multidimensional interactive optimisation for urban development - 
 Helene Margrethe Bøhler - Spacemaker
DTSTART:20190523T120000Z
DTEND:20190523T133000Z
UID:TALK120676@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:James Fergusson
DESCRIPTION:The world’s building stock is expected to double by 2060\, w
 hich means building one New York City every month over the next 40 years. 
  In order to achieve this in a sustainable way\, we need smarter ways of d
 esigning our cities. Spacemaker is strongly committed to contributing to t
 his purpose by providing real estate developers and architects with a soft
 ware that allows for immediate optimisation and analysis of any building s
 ite. However\, the site development problem entails navigating a high-dime
 nsional solution space where the system needs to take into account all bui
 ldings\, surroundings and other functions on a site. To make it more chall
 enging\, our work has shown that it is infeasible to capture all requireme
 nts and preferences of the user in an explicit objective function. To give
  our users a tool that allows them to navigate and explore this vast solut
 ion space\, Spacemaker has developed a human-in-the-loop system for optimi
 zation that takes advantage of the superior problem-solving capacity of a 
 hybrid human-machine system. In order to accomplish this\, we use a wide r
 ange of techniques including search/optimisation\, sampling (GANs etc.)\, 
 dimensionality reduction and visualisation techniques. This talk will intr
 oduce you to some of them\, both generally and in the Spacemaker use-case.
LOCATION:Kavli Large Meeting Room\, Kavli Building
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