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This papers content is about evaluating how to utilise hybridisation of digital communications in order to secure sustainable approaches based on green buildings and infrastructure. The challenges associated with environmental and social impacts of building designs have created socio-economic impacts on our communities. There is an extensive push for “technical optimism” while engaging the communities...
Validation is an important topic on the life-cycle of software development, especially when we are working with crowd simulation. This is because when applied in safety fields, such simulation software must reproduce behaviors close to real life in order to obtain useful data. The International Maritime Organization of London (IMO) developed guidelines for validate evacuation systems. In this paper,...
Question-oriented text retrieval, aka natural language-based text retrieval, has been widely used in software engineering. Earlier work has concluded that questions with the same keywords but different interrogatives (such as how, what) should result in different answers. But what is the difference? How to identify the right answers to a question? In this paper, we propose to investigate the "answer...
New inventions and changes in technology and methodologies affect design activity frequently resulting in unpredictable effects on the final design solution, hence on the real outcome — unsatisfactory buildings. To avoid these consequences, it is necessary to store and exploit ever-growing knowledge and experiences that allow these problems to be overcome. An innovative ‘Abstraction Layer’ overlying...
The objective of this paper is to propose a building energy management (BEM) platform that allows sensing and control of equipment in small- and medium-sized buildings. The proposed platform aims to improve energy efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and foster demand response (DR) implementation by controlling three major loads in buildings, including HVAC, lighting and plug loads. In addition,...
Issues such as energy shortage and global warming become prominent. Meanwhile, the rapid growth of the load makes the grid pay more attention to demand side. Demand response (DR) is an effective tool to change the shape of the load. Usually buildings consume much energy, and also have great DR capability. It is crucial to assess the DR capability of buildings, which is a tough task because the building...
Information technology (IT) offshoring grows rapidly along with the availability of large number of highly capable IT vendors in developing countries. To be able to play a significant role in the global IT market through offshore IT outsurcing, it is necessary that vendors are capable in building a good relationship with their clients. In this study, we examine the critical processes for developing...
In a changing world, with more and more people living in urban areas and more and more energy needs, managing energy consumption becomes essential. This papers focuses on energy management in tertiary buildings, and more precisely on behaviour and daily practices from occupants of these buildings. It will firstly show what are the required uses, with dedicated areas, and the place of automation. It...
This paper addresses a bottom-up approach for energy management in buildings. Future smart cities will need smart citizens, thus developing an interface to connect humans to their energy usage becomes a necessity. The goal is to give a touch of energy to occupants' daily behaviours and activities and making them aware of their decisions' consequences in terms of energy consumption, its cost and carbon...
We present in this paper GRENAD, a Multi-Agent System based framework for the simulation and piloting of power-grids and particularly smart grids. Exploiting a component-based approach, it allows a flexible design of complex smart grid applications by providing a generic canvas where extensible, modular and reusable components, defined on the basis of their functionalities, can be easily combined...
The problem of countering one of most dangerous unconventional information security threats for modern industrial control systems covert channels is considered. A universal method of countering such a threat based on earlier unknown formal condition of existence of covert channels is proposed. An illustration of the method to counter covert channels in a real industrial control system is given.
The Academic Network of Uruguay (in spanish Red Académica Uruguaya - RAU) comprises several universities, research centres and government institutions. RAU is planning a major upgrade, and Software Defined Networking (SDN) is being evaluated as a technology which may promote the deployment of improved network services, while allowing researchers to keep on investigating over the operational network...
Engineering design is a complex activity for students to undertake and for instructors to assess. This research uses large learner data sets collected through automatic, unobtrusive logging of student actions in a CAD platform to address this difficulty in observing design behavior. We used a computer-aided design software that captured student design activities to investigate patterns of student...
Global software engineering (GSE) has become common in the software industry. Distributed development work comes with many challenges, especially related to communication and coordination. Thus, it is essential to also teach and prepare the new population of software engineers to be aware of — and familiar with — these hurdles. We addressed this need by arranging a joint (agile) software project course...
This Work In Progress focuses on student perceptions of the effectiveness of three content delivery modes; a) traditional, residential in-class b) class capture for asynchronous online delivery, and c) modularized targeted content videos for online and blended or flipped classroom mode. Despite the growth of MOOCs and the concomitant shift from long lecture videos to learning modules, many online...
Though Cantonese is the most influential variety of Chinese other than Mandarin, there are only a limited number of Cantonese corpora available for linguistic studies. Among the essential steps of building a corpus, word segmentation is a necessary but highly challenging task due to the lack of clear word boundary in Cantonese. This paper reports the construction and evaluation of an open-source automatic...
The purely software based old data acquisition system of the COMPASS experiment at CERN is replaced by the new hybrid FPGA-software system. The two level FPGA subsystem takes over the data handling role. The hardware is built in a compact AMC form factor using a Xilinx Virtex-6 VLX130T FPGA as a data processor. The data handling includes a 15:1 data link multiplexing and complete event building in...
Credit cards have become an essential element in the banking industry. Credit cards add a significant value for the banks. Mining credit cards can find interesting patterns among different variables that may be used in the future by the policy makers for building their future policy. In this study, we have investigated the credit card-holder's behavior in order to predict the market segmentation....
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...
Developers often rely on the web-based tools for troubleshooting, collaboration, issue tracking, code reviewing, documentation viewing, and a myriad of other uses. Developers also use the web for non-development purposes, such as reading news or social media. In this paper we explore whether web usage is detriment to a developer's focus on work from a sample over 150 developers. Additionally, we investigate...
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