Swarm building information modeling. An hybrid agents-actor framework to improve design support systems capabilities
New opportunities nowadays provided by the introduction of highly sophisticated software tools have not brought yet to a substantial change in the design process still anchored to old traditional paradigms. Design activity is still rigidly organized in 'boxes', defined by semantic barriers. To support the designer's activity, improve communication, predict building behaviour and performance a new generation of simulation a support system tools seem necessary. To this aim, a general support system framework based on the Swarm Simulation Modeling approach is presented.