Purpose: This paper reviews the impact of design and specification decisions for major works during post-occupancy processes; the routine maintenance and management of school premises. It also explores the relationship between the main stakeholders and how this impacts decision making and the post occupancy operation of the school buildings.\ud Design/methodology/approach: In addition to literature review, qualitative data was also obtained through focus group; a steering group. The steering group consisted of stakeholders tasked with delivering and managing school premises in the Sussex County.\ud Finding: A contribution to understanding the impact of design decisions on post occupancy processes in schools. A basic model was also presented as a guide for requirements and decision mapping in post-occupancy design decision processes in schools.\ud Research limitations/implications: The study was conducted with the participation of representative sample of stakeholders. There may be the need to further investigate the issues in a localised context before detailed solutions are proposed.\ud Practical implications: The paper reports findings based on the needs, requirements, and preferences of the stakeholders as well as the opportunities and constraints to improving the quality of design processes which in turn will improve post occupancy processes.\ud Originality/value: The paper highlights the complexity of design decision making in schools, presents the view point of stakeholders, and proposes basic model to ensure performance for post occupancy processes to inform the next stage of the research.\ud Keywords: Building performance, Design decision making, information and knowledge flow, post occupancy processes, school buildings, user studies

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Buildings during their service life are subject to dilapidation, obsolescence, deterioration and change and hence require constant upkeep on a daily basis and/or specific adaptation to change the functionality or improve the performance of the building. For this reason the constant and up-todate flow of information about a building is crucial. However, data collection is just part of a successful post-occupancy practice. What is more important is how the data, information and knowledge are retrieved and packaged to provide the most effective support for making decisions.In the UK, education up to tertiary level is the direct responsibility of the central government and takes remarkable efforts, consuming a significant amount of their annual budget. Capital investment fund for schools was £683 million in 1996-97, £3.8 billion in 2003-04, and £8.2 billion in 2010-2011. This paper reports on partial findings of a research project on post-occupancy design in school projects in South East England. It provides a brief review of key factors, and major players in postoccupancy processes. The decision processes will then be established. It also investigates the relationship between the stakeholders and how this impacts the decision processes. A quick review of Decision Support Systems (DSS) will be provided to correlate the existing context with the means the toolkit will be utilising to offer the most efficient platform to serve the set target of the research. The main contribution of this paper however, remains to be how the collaborative processes were streamlined for all the stakeholders to work together and co-create knowledge and value to devise a platform.

This paper discusses a prototype of a temporal pattern predictor, which was built on specifications derived from the descriptions of the "Ergotrix" temporal memory network in Valentino Braitenberg's "Vehicles" (Braitenberg, 1984). The prototype was developed as a component for a control architecture for virtual characters.