The School of Civil Engineering and Surveying

Dominic Fox

Dr Dominic Fox

Head of School

School of Civil Engineering & Surveying

Portland Building, Portland Street, Portsmouth PO1 3AH

dominic.fox@port.ac.uk

Profile

Research

  • Demolition methods, legislation, estimating and safety.
  • Information systems - networked information access (Internet, Intranet) to construction information.
  • I.T. support for Health and Safety (eg. CDM Health and Safety File).
  • Artificial Intelligence computer applications (eg. Expert Systems, Genetic Algorithms) and decision support systems.
  • Land Surveying (including monitoring and GPS surveying).

Teaching

  • Information Technology
  • Communications
  • Surveying

Publications

  1. Bramer, M.A., Fox, D.St.J., & Kispal, A.J. (1992). A knowledge-based safety advisor for the demolition industry. Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering, Digest No. 1992/011. IEE Computing and Control Division, Professional Group C4, London, p. 5/1.
  2. Fox, D.St.J. (1992). An expert system for estimation in the demolition industry. Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering, Digest No. 1992/011. IEE Computing and Control Division, Professional Group C4, London, pp. 3/1-3/3.
  3. Fox, D.St.J. & Kispal, A.J. (1992). A knowledge-based safety advisor for the demolition industry. Decommissioning and Demolition, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Decommissioning Offshore, Onshore Demolition and Nuclear Works, ed. I.L. Whyte. Thomas Telford, London, pp. 9-13.
  4. Begg, D.W., Fox, D.St.J., & Gratton, D.N. (1992). Dropped object risk assessment. Proceedings of Computer Modelling of Seas and Coastal Regions. Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, 27-29 April.
  5. Bramer, M.A., Kispal, A.J., Butler, J.E., & Fox, D.St.J. (1993). An advisory knowledge-based system for the explosive demolition of brick chimneys. Information Technology for Civil and Structural Engineers, eds. B.H.V. Topping and A.I. Khan. Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, pp. 79-85.
  6. Bramer, M.A., Kispal, A.J., Fox, D.St.J., & Butler, J.E. (1993). An advisory knowledge-based system for the demolition industry. Applications and Innovations in Expert Systems, ed. I. Graham, BHR Group, Cambridge, pp. 175-187.
  7. Fox, D.St.J., Butler, J.E., Kispal, A.J., & Bramer, M.A. (1994). The development of a knowledge-based safety advisor for the demolition industry and its user interface. Wealth Creation from Information Technology, 1994 UK IT Forum Conference Digest, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, pp. 329-337.
  8. Fox, D.St.J., Butler, J.E., Kispal, A.J., & Bramer, M.A. (1994). SADI: a case study of a knowledge-based advisory system in a safety-critical domain. Knowledge-Based Systems for Safety Critical Applications, Digest No. 1994/109. IEE Computing and Control Division, Profesional Group C4, London, pp. 4/1-4/3.
  9. Bramer, M.A., Kispal, A.J., Fox, D.St.J., & Butler, J.E. (1994). A knowledge-based advisory system for the demolition industry. Advances in Artificial Intelligence ? Theory and Application II, Volume II of the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, eds. J.W.Brahan and G.E. Lasker, Baden Baden, Germany, pp. 49-54. (Prize for best paper).
  10. Fox, D.St.J. & Butler. J.E. (1994). A knowledge-based system approach to the estimation of structural steelwork mass. Artificial Intelligence and Object Oriented Approaches for Structural Engineering, eds. B.H.V. Topping and M. Papadrakakis, Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, pp. 9-13.
  11. Fox, D.St.J. (1994). A knowledge-based approach to demolition quantity estimating. Proceedings of CAP94, Department of Information Science, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth.
  12. Fox, D.St.J., Butler, J.E., Kispal, A.J., & Bramer, M.A. (1995). A multimedia safety advisor for construction work using expert knowledge. Knowledge-Based Approaches to Automation in Construction, Digest No. 1995/129. IEE Computing and Control Division, Professional Group C4, London, pp. 2/1-2/3.
  13. Fox, D.St.J., & Otter, R.A. (1995). Digitising the construction process; providing a multi-media educational resource. Developments in Computer-Aided Design and Modelling for Civil Engineering, ed. B.H.V. Topping, Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, pp.285-288.
  14. Fox, D.St.J., Board, M.J., Langdon, N.J., & Butler, C.M. (1998). The physical characteristics of a soilwashing residue, resulting from the remediation of a former gasworks site. Polluted and Marginal Land 98 - Proceedings of 5th Int. Conf. on Re-Use of Contaminated Land and Landfills, Engineering Technics Press, Brunel University, July 1998, pp. 277-282.
  15. Fox, D.St.J., & Ponterosso, P. (1999). Preliminary layout of reinforced earth embankments by genetic algorithm. Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements IX, Eds. Carlomagno & Brebbia, pp. 603-612.
  16. Fox, D.St.J., & Ponterosso, P. (1999). Heuristically seeded genetic algorithms applied to truss optimization. Engineering with Computers, Springer-Verlag, London, 15: 345-355.
  17. Fox, D.St.J., & Ponterosso, P. (1999). Optimization of reinforced earth design by genetic algorithm. Design Optimization: Int. Journal for Product and Process Improvement.
  18. Fox, D.St.J., & Ponterosso, P. (1999). Reinforced earth highway embankment design by genetic algorithm. Computers and Geotechnics.
  19. Fox, D.St.J., Ponterosso, P., Fishwick, R.J., Liu, X.L., & Begg, D.W. (1999). Masonry Arch Collapse Loads and Mechanisms by Heuristically Seeded Genetic Algorithm. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.
  20. Fox, D.St.J., Tsitsirigos, C. & Begg, D.W. (1999). Attitudes to Management and their Effect on Progress. Proceedings of the ARCOM Fifteenth Annual Conference Vol. 1, pp. 153-160.
  21. Fox, D.St.J., & Ponterosso, P. (2000). Optimization of reinforced soil embankments by genetic algorithm. Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, vol.24, no.4, pp. 425-433.
  22. Fox, D.St.J., Board, M.J., & Grant, D.I. (2000). The effects of age on cement stabilised / solidified contaminated materials. Transport Research Laboratory Report 451, 42 pp.
  23. Fox, D.St.J., Board, M.J., Reid, J.M., & Grant, D.I. (2000). The Long Term Assessment of a Cement Stabilised / Solidified Contaminated Made Ground and its Use as a Road Construction Material, Land Contamination and Reclamation.