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Buildings represent 40% of total primary energy use in the U.S., and researchers have recognized the necessity of making office spaces more energy efficient. To reduce energy consumption, it is important to take into account buildings occupants' behavior into account. The difference between simulated, estimated and real power consumption in buildings reflects the need to search for more accurate ways...
As a new trend of thought and style today, the application of parametric intelligent design gets many success in the design of building and product, for meeting the development requirement of human beings and social development tendency, proving the real exploration for objective world. Parametric intelligent design isn't merely temporary thing in limited area, it will be having impressed effects...
With deference to Butler Lampson, I present five hints specifically for building high-assurance cyber-physical systems: (1) use Turing-incomplete languages (2) simple interfaces are secure interfaces, (3) program the glue code and architecture, (4) system verification is a probabilistic game, and (5) high-assurance systems require a high-assurance culture.
The paper describes building systems for computational linguistics based on an approach to the image text comprehension. There had been suggested a set theoretical formalization for such type of systems using the fuzzy sense relationship. The possibilities of conceptual approach had been demonstrated on the solution examples of such tasks as searching for reference words, building lexical ontology...
The article discusses how to use the computer collecting and analyzing information of regional color. Draw a method about computer to extract regional color and establish the color analysis system. The macroscopic display of different statistics are represented and compared to essence in regional city order. The study method and train of thought can be established for urban color order reasonable...
This paper presents the design, deployment, and initial testing of an agent-based test bed to support a wide range of experiments and demonstrations of advanced control of building systems for energy efficiency, occupant comfort, and reliable interaction with the electric power grid. The test bed possesses the following major characteristics: 1) it supports interactions among heterogeneous components...
The architectural design studio could be considered with no doubt as the principal pillar of the architectural education process, and it plays one of the most important roles in developing this process. Regardless of the rise of the use of computing in architecture profession, the main focus -at least in developing countries- is on presentations as compared to other realms of the practice. The current...
The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment has created a suite of software collectively known as the XSEDE-compatible basic cluster (XCBC). It has been distributed as a Rocks Roll for some time. The same scientific and supporting packages are available as individual RPM packages as the XSEDE National Integration Toolkit (XNIT), so they can be downloaded and installed in portions as...
Edenton, North Carolina was established in 1712 as the Towne on Queen Anne's Creek. It was later known as Ye Towne on Mattercommack Creek and, yet later as the Port of Roanoke. It was renamed Edenton and incorporated in 1722 in honor of Governor Charles Eden who had died that year.
A communication gap between developers and operators can lead to serious problems on system service continuity, especially for open systems with constant changes of stakeholders' requirements and operating environment. In order to break down such communication barriers, this paper gives general patterns of reasoning, called argumentation schemes, for open system dependability. The schemes are defined...
Spoken Tutorial project is a team initiative of IIT Bombay with the government support that holds the potential to build an IT literate nation. The paper explains the relevance of the project in the present society along with the methodology of the project and the importance of skill building in the present society. The challenges that might come in the way of the project are also discussed and the...
Conceptual modeling is the abstraction of a simulation model from the real world system that is being modeled; in other words, choosing what to model, and what not to model. This is generally agreed to be the most difficult, least understood and most important task to be carried out in a simulation study. In this tutorial the problem of conceptual modeling is first illustrated through an example of...
Traditionally software development tools, such as compilers, linkers and build engines, were designed for use by individual engineers on dedicated desktop machines. As these tools evolved, they scaled-up by exploiting more powerful development machines. The same tools were adapted for team development to run on small, project-specific clusters by dedicating a server to process a single job at a time...
This paper presents a scenario to enrich children's experiences during a museum visit by implicitly guiding them through the exhibition space via a collaboratively created, topic related questionnaire. At the end of the visit, a personalised virtual museum catalogue can be created. This allows children to access data about the subjects they were most interested in during their visit and re-use it...
The combined hardships of economic downturn and a target audience that is increasingly defined by their affinity for active participation in their surroundings have left many nonprofit museums struggling to remain relevant in the 21st Century. We have partnered with Discovery Place, a hands-on science museum in Charlotte, North Carolina in order to create an easy-to-integrate software solution to...
In performing a simulation study the modeler needs to make decisions about what to include in the simulation model and what to exclude. The modeler is faced with the very difficult choice of determining what is the best model to develop. Make it too complex and it may not be possible to complete the model with the time and knowledge available. Make it too simple and the results may not be sufficiently...
Make use of the principle of steady flow and unsteady flow of groundwater dynamics, introducing the method of groundwater level real time prediction around the foundation pit in the process of disturbed wells dewatering. The best arithmetic was selected after the Cross Validation. Based on interpolation arithmetic selected before, visualization of dewatering was realized. It has some certain meaning...
This paper illustrates the idea of applying interactive storytelling to a panoramic projection system. The story of a wedding that occurred in 1941 in Charles Church (Plymouth, UK) is presented on a wrap-around screen where the viewers are asked to make decisions about further developments of the narrative. The church was bombed in 1941 and was not rebuilt after the war. A virtual 3D reconstruction...
In this paper, the writer tried to explore how the science and technology developed under the push of the digital technology meanwhile to find how the change of people's behavior and consciousness even the change of philosophy and world view could bring effect on architecture design in this information age. On the details, from cognition of architecture objects to evolvement of new architecture design...
When the computer-mediated remote collaborative design team need to develop trust, it is advantageous for the team to match communication modes to information exchange channels. This paper discusses trust level in different modechannel combinations environment with the aim to find out the best matches of communication modes (sequence, layer, and net mode) and information exchange channels (text, audio,...
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