Project Title: An Automated System for Adaptive Room Layout Desing
Student: Cen Shen
Course: BSc Hons in Computer Science and Management

Abstract:
As many organizations and companies grow larger today, the change in occupiers
cannot be avoided. The numbers of new coming people and previous people may be
different. As a result, it causes a problem that the number of office rooms does not
match the new people. The room layout needs to be changed.
This project proposes a solution that is an automated system for room layout
design. The system includes a database which has the information of rooms,
occupiers, and new occupiers. It can ensure user to view and edit these data to
create their scenarios. It provides both manual design tools and automatic design
functions.
This system focuses on the room plans which consist of horizontal and vertical lines.
In order to minimize the disruption, only empty rooms are considered to be
re-designed.
The design part includes both manual design and automatic design. The manual
design is different from paint tools. It provides automatic tools for user to modify
their room layout plan. User can merge and split rooms and save the modified
layout as a new room layout plan. On the other hand, the automatic design can
generate a new room layout plan by analyzing the data in database. After users set
the scenario, they are able to get a new room layout plan by simply pressing one
button. In addition, user also can get a new room layout plan by inputting the
number of empty rooms or average size. The two main approaches will be
described specifically.