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This paper presents an analysis of advancing a code compliant single detached dwelling in Ontario, Canada to Passive House Standard energy efficiency level. The research was based on comparing energy models built with the Passive House Planning Package, and included thermal bridging calculations performed in the THERM software. For each energy model, only the effect of improved exterior insulation...
XBRL taxonomy is the latest technology for the high quality exchange of business and other reports on the Internet. How to quickly develop high quality XBRL taxonomy is a hot research topic of business information domain. In this study, the problems of XBRL taxonomy development are considered and a process model for XBRL taxonomy development is proposed. The model use the idea of knowledge engineering,...
There are already plenty of Internet of Things (IoT) architectures and systems available worldwide and this creates challenges for software development and systems entities that use these platforms. Global visibility and interoperability through the exposure of these platforms via the web can be achieved through a new paradigm to support an open framework for Web of Things (WoT), which is analogous...
An artificial sky is a unique simulator generating sky luminance distribution on the hemispherical dome in accordance with CIE S 011/E: 2003 standard. Its current reconstruction at Slovak Academy of Sciences needs a precise setup of the location, orientation and luminance level of the LEDs to reach the exact luminance distributions of the overcast, clear and intermediate skies. A software product...
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...
In this paper we want to develop sentiment analysis as multi-agent system (MAS), thus provides it with abstraction and modularity as a powerful handling against its complexity. Instead of reinventing every possibility of combination to refine the result of sentiment analysis, a number of sentiment analysis agents are released into the system. These agents possess intelligence and will autonomously...
Given the proliferation of geo-tagged images, geo-aware image classification is an emerging topic. To derive a better image representation, tag features which represents an image as a histogram of tags are recently introduced. However, it is unclear whether geo tags can improve the tag features. To resolve the uncertainty, this paper studies geo-aware tag features. Our work is based on previous work...
This paper proposes a configuration of Building Energy Management System suitable for managing a group of small buildings, namely Small Buildings Energy Management System (SBEMS). Its communication is based on the IEEE1888 standard. The standard is modified such that the storage can be in the cloud. Data compression is also incorporated in order to reduce the communication cost. To test this idea,...
Based on the analysis of building energy efficiency features, considering the construction of energy efficiency factors, this paper AHP establish a comprehensive evaluation of building energy efficiency design model based on grey theory. This model mainly combines quantitative analysis, qualitative and quantitative analysis methods to overcome the evaluation's the subjectivity and arbitrariness, and...
A significant portion of a typical Enterprise IT services budget is spent on steady state management operations known as ”operational expenses”. Recently ”Standard Services Offerings” based approaches are proposed to reduce such cost where only a few set of versions and configurations are used to build an Enterprise IT services platform. A key challenge in these approaches is the choice of appropriate...
According to the existing problems of current inspect and record of Building Energy Conservation (BEC) in China, a creative, unified inspect and record flow was proposed, and Inspect and Record model of BEC was designed and completed. The information system for inspect and record of BEC, which consists of login system and management system module, construction-related units module, inspect entries...
Based on analysis of the reasons of low efficiency in construction industry, the paper suggests that the key point of improving efficiency is the implementation of lifecycle building information integrated management. The main contents of research in this paper include the concept of BIM, product analysis and implementation. After the analysis of the BLM, it is indicated that BIM is the key technology...
To construct the new network financial reporting model, the paper discusses the principles and elements of new network financial reporting mode. Based on the event accounting theory and XBRL (e Xtensible Business Reporting Language) database, the paper collects overall data on business transaction, centralizes accounting data formats and standards, precise and dynamic data. The successful construction...
When security-critical applications are considered to be integrated into the building automation domain, two requirements need to be fulfilled: providing security features at the network level and support for security mechanisms at the application level. This paper tackles the second goal using domain knowledge based on existing and related international application level standards. After the demands...
Current plan checking process has been a tedious and time consuming process for developers and local authorities with many errors and problems. This may result to a late of building development progress and can cost a big number amount of money. The aim of this research is to build a software information system that integrates development plan using computer-aided design (CAD) and to evaluate the...
Natural hazards (i.e. earthquakes, floods) become disaster when they strike the man-made environment. Algeria has frequently experienced various types of severe natural disasters which result in considerable loss of life and extensive economic damage. To effectively reduce the impact of every disaster, available data of buildings, lifeline systems, roads, hospitals, etc, will help the managers to...
Building information modelling (BIM) is only a tool in the procurement of a building, but it is changing the way the whole process is undertaken. Having a single model which is used by all disciplines requires a different management structure and by consequence a restructuring of the resources required to complete a project.These changes are encompassed in Integrated Practice and more recently Integrated...
Due to their reconfigurability and their high density of resources, SRAM-based FPGAs are more and more used in embedded systems. For some applications (Pay-TV,Banking, Telecommunication ...), a high level of security is needed. FPGAs are intrinsically sensitive to ionizing effects, such as light stimulation, and attackers can try to exploit faults injected in the downloaded configuration. Previous...
The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications, via effective collaboration and communication of stakeholders in construction projects. Digital construction is a political initiative to address low productivity in the sector. This seeks...
This paper discusses the manner in which cinema buildings of the 20th century represent both an important physical record of society, and a challenge in terms of representing a complex range of historical, cultural, economic and physical data sets.The paper provides an overview of visualisation techniques which are appropriate to the subject, and provides a case study taken from the city of Aberdeen...
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