ok I am in search of a tool that I believe someone must be able to help locate....this must exist.

I have found a number of (quite antiquated) research papers discussing "constraint satisfaction problems" and "automated layout design" systems. Among these tools I have found one is called WRIGHT and the other GLIDE. Again these are quite old and their trails are running dry.

What I am looking for is a tool to take a database of information about spaces in a program - type, size, adjacencies, height, relation to the perimeter - to establish different solutions that satisfy the demands of each of the spaces in this database. I believe that GC or IK in 3d modelling software might be able to do something like this but I am wondering if there is anything else out there.

It would be nice even to get a tool that "maps" out the data, and could be sorted according to a chosen variable.

I have seen such visual strategies emplyed on websites where an architect's projects can be sorted by date, type, location and the project entities seemingly reshuffle accordingly.

I posted this elsewhere at the end of a long string of posts, my apologies....