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Williams, Jack Jr. "Architects and firesafety : a survey of an emerging fire science technology and its impact on architectural practice." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21734.
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Parslow, Michelle Lisa. "Women, science and technology : the genealogy of women writing utopian science fiction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3058.
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For centuries utopian and science fiction has allowed women to engage with dominant discourses, especially those which have been defined as the “domain” of men. Feminist scholars have often characterized this genealogy as one which begins with the destabilization of Enlightenment ideals of the rational subject in the Romantic Revolution, with the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) in particular. This thesis demonstrates that there has in fact been an enduring history of women’s cognitive and rational attempts to explore key discourses such as science, technology and architecture through Reason, as opposed to rage. This is a genealogy of women writing utopian science fiction that is best illuminated through Darko Suvin’s of the novum. Chapter One reveals how the innovative utopian visions of Margaret Cavendish (1626-1673) proffer a highly rational and feminist critique of seventeenth-century experimental science. Chapter Two demonstrates how Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall (1762) explored the socio-political significance of the monstrous-looking “human” body some fifty years before Shelley’s Frankenstein. Following this, Chapter Three re-reads Frankenstein in light of the early nineteenth century zeitgeist of laissez-faire economics, technological advancement and global imperialism and argues that these were also the concerns of other utopian science fiction works by women, such as Jane Loudon’s The Mummy! (1827). Chapter Four analyses how the function of the novum is integral to L.T. Meade’s (1854-1915) depictions of male/female interaction in the scientific field. Chapter Five considers how important it is to acknowledge the materialist concern with popular science that informs texts such as Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (1975) and Pat Cadigan’s cyberpunk novel Synners (1991). This is the history of how women have used the form of utopian science fiction as a means with which to present a rational female voice. In addition to the historical works by women, it employs a range of utopian and science fiction theory from Suvin and Fredric Jameson to historical and contemporary feminism.
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Alfarra, Hasan. "Architectural integration of transpired solar thermal technology in building envelopes and associated technological innovation analysis." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/65914/.
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This thesis addresses the architectural integration of transpired solar collectors (TSC), as a building envelope technology patented in 1980s to pre-heat ambient air that would be used for space heating. It explores the reasons for low take up of the technology. It further explores the preferences, perceptions and recommendations of architectural integration quality of TSC in buildings. The research analyses the associated technological innovation development at entrepreneurial level in the UK and North America in a variety of terms including knowledge diffusion and research and development. Building-integrated renewable energy is an important response to concerns about climate change and energy poverty. As space heating accounts for 61% of total domestic energy consumption in countries with long cold seasons, the transpired solar collector (TSC) is a promising technology. However, TSC suffers from low take up despite its apparent technical competitiveness. A large-scale questionnaire, an experimental prototype and technological innovation system analysis were used to provide insight into architecturally integrating and developing TSC technology in buildings, and clarifying its potential contribution to pre-heating ambient air. The research outcomes inferred multi-dimensional reasons behind limited adoption of the technology. Respondents were generally aware of TSC technology; however, few were satisfied with available technology. Various preferences determining selection of TSCs were investigated, including: ‘invisible’ integration, planning guidelines for traditional buildings, stage of integration and sustainable factors. Respondents indicated that the ultimate feature considered when sourcing TSC technology was its reliability followed by capital cost. The solar irradiation only needed to exceed 60W/m2 for TSC to generate an output temperature greater than the ambient temperature. A significant temperature increase was observed when solar irradiation exceeded 400W/m2. Output temperature increased to 16ºC above ambient temperature in autumn and 12ºC in winter in the TSC prototype. A comparison of relevant actors, institutions and networks of TSC in the United Kingdom (UK) with North America, found both to be cautious about communication to protect intellectual property: this hampers knowledge exchange and development. Despite TSC take up in North America being restricted by cheap gas prices, end-user feedback reflects a level of satisfaction versus fewer such examples in the UK. Identified barriers included immaturity of technology, reluctance to implement new technology, lack of supply chain and low institutional support. A framework of potential enablers and architectural design guidelines were proposed to breakthrough take up of TSC.
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Li, Ning 1962. "The computerized landscape: The potential of utilizing computer integration technology in landscape architecture." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291542.
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In this thesis, computer integration technology and human interfaces will be assessed to determine if it can help in sharing, connecting, and transferring information in Landscape Architecture. Traditional methods of integration using manual techniques need to be modified for computer applications. Existing user friendly computer integration technology was researched and an experimental demonstration based on the Landscape Architectural applications was developed. Other applications and benefit of computer integration technology in Landscape Architectural practice are discussed.
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Zain-ul-Abdin. "Programming of coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för naturvetenskap och teknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-15246.
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Coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures, which offer massive parallelism coupled with the capability of undergoing run-time reconfiguration, are gaining attention in order to meet not only the increased computational demands of high-performance embedded systems, but also to fulfill the need of adaptability to functional requirements of the application. This thesis focuses on the programming aspects of such coarse-grained reconfigurable computing devices, including the relevant computation models that are capable of exposing different kinds of parallelism inherent in the application and the ability of these models to capture the adaptability requirements of the application. The thesis suggests the occam-pi language for programming of a broad class of coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures as an intermediate language; we call it intermediate, since we believe that the applicationprogramming is best done in a high-level domain-specific language. The salient properties of the occam-pi language are explicit concurrency with built-in mechanisms for interprocessorcommunication, provision for expressing dynamic parallelism, support for the expression of dynamic reconfigurations, and placement attributes. To evaluate the programming approach, a compiler framework was extended to support the language extensions in the occam-pi language, and backends were developed to target two different coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures. XPP and Ambric. The results on XPP reveal that the occam-pi based implementations produce comparable throughput to those of NML programs, while programming at a much higher level of abstraction than that of NML. Similarly the two occam-pi implementations of autofocus criterion calculation targeted to the Ambric platform outperform the CPU implementation by factors of 11-23. Thus, the results of the implemented case-studies suggest that the occam-pi language based approach simplifies the development of applications employing run-time reconfigurable devices without compromising the performance benefits.
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Piechocinski, Marek. "Electrochemical sensor system architecture using the CMOS-MEMS technology for cytometry applications." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3694/.
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This thesis presents the development process of an integrated sensor-system-on-chip for recording the parameters of blood cells. The CMOS based device consists of the two flow-through sensor arrays, stacked one on top of the other. The sensors are able to detect the biological cell in terms of its physical size and the surface charge on a cell’s membrane. The development of the measurement system was divided into several stages these were to design and implement the two sensor arrays complemented with readout circuitry onto a single CMOS chip to create an on-chip membrane with embedded flow-through micro-channels by a CMOS compatible post-processing techniques to encapsulate and hermeti-cally package the device for liquid chemistry experiments, to test and characterise the two sensor arrays together with readout electronics, to develop control and data acquisition software and to detect the biological cells using the complete measurement system. Cy-tometry and haematology fields are closely related to the presented work, hence it is envis-aged that the developed technology enables further integration and miniaturisation of the biomedical instrumentation. The two vertically stacked 4 x 4 flow-through sensor arrays, embedded into an on-chip membrane, were implemented in a single silicon chip device together with a readout circuitry for each of the sensor sets. To develop a CMOS-MEMS device the design and fabrication was carried out using a commercial process design kit (0.35 µm 4-Metal, 2-Poly, CMOS) as well as the foundry service. Thereafter the device was post-processed in-house to develop the on-chip membrane and open the sensing micro-apertures. The two types of sensor were integrated on the silicon dice for multi-parametric characterisation of the analyte. To read the cell membrane charge the ion sensitive field effect transistor (ISFET) was utilised and for cell size (volume) detection an impedance sensor (Coulter counter) was used. Both sensors rely on a flow-through mode of operation, hence the constant flow of the analyte sample could be maintained. The Coulter counter metal electrode was exposed to the solution, while the ISFET floating gate electrode maintained contact with the analyte through a charge sensitive membrane constructed of a dielectric material (silicon dioxide) lining the inside of the micro-pore. The outside size of each of the electrodes was 100 µm x 100 µm and the inside varied from 20 µm x 20 µm to 58 µm x 58 µm. The sense aperture size also varied from 10 µm x 10 µm to 16 µm x 16 µm. The two stacked micro-electrode arrays were layed out on an area of 5002 µm2. The CMOS-MEMS device was fit into a custom printed circuit board (PCB) chip carrier, thereafter insulated and hermetically packaged. Microfluidic ports were attached to the packaged module so that the analyte can be introduced and drained by a flow-through mode of operation. The complete microfluidic system and packaging was assembled and thereafter evaluated for correct operation. Undisturbed flow of the analyte solution is es-sential for the sensor operation. This is related to the fact that the electrochemical response of both sensors depends on the analyte flow through the sense micro-apertures thus any aggregation of the sample within the microfluidic system would cause clogging of the mi-cro-pores. The on-chip electronic circuitry was characterised, and after comparison with the simulated results found to be within an error margin of what enables it for reliable sensor signal readout. The measurement system is automated by software control so that the bias parame-ters can be set precisely, it also helped while error debugging. Analogue signals from the two sensor arrays were acquired, later processed and stored by a data acquisition system. Both control and data capture systems are implemented in a high level programming lan-guage. Furthermore both are integrated and operated in a one window based graphical user interface (GUI). A fully functional measurement system was used as a flow-through cytometer for living cells detection. The measurements results showed that the system is capable of single cell detection and on-the-fly data display.
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Thinyane, Mamello P. "A knowledge-oriented, context-sensitive architectural framework for service deployment in marginalized rural communities." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004843.
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The notion of a global knowledge society is somewhat of a misnomer due to the fact that large portions of the global community are not participants in this global knowledge society which is driven, shaped by and socio-technically biased towards a small fraction of the global population. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is culture-sensitive and this is a dynamic that is largely ignored in the majority of ICT for Development (ICT4D) interventions, leading to the technological determinism flaw and ultimately a failure of the undertaken projects. The deployment of ICT solutions, in particular in the context of ICT4D, must be informed by the cultural and socio-technical profile of the deployment environments and solutions themselves must be developed with a focus towards context-sensitivity and ethnocentricity. In this thesis, we investigate the viability of a software architectural framework for the development of ICT solutions that are context-sensitive and ethnocentric1, and so aligned with the cultural and social dynamics within the environment of deployment. The conceptual framework, named PIASK, defines five tiers (presentation, interaction, access, social networking, and knowledge base) which allow for: behavioural completeness of the layer components; a modular and functionally decoupled architecture; and the flexibility to situate and contextualize the developed applications along the dimensions of the User Interface (UI), interaction modalities, usage metaphors, underlying Indigenous Knowledge (IK), and access protocols. We have developed a proof-of-concept service platform, called KnowNet, based on the PIASK architecture. KnowNet is built around the knowledge base layer, which consists of domain ontologies that encapsulate the knowledge in the platform, with an intrinsic flexibility to access secondary knowledge repositories. The domain ontologies constructed (as examples) are for the provisioning of eServices to support societal activities (e.g. commerce, health, agriculture, medicine) within a rural and marginalized area of Dwesa, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The social networking layer allows for situating the platform within the local social systems. Heterogeneity of user profiles and multiplicity of end-user devices are handled through the access and the presentation components, and the service logic is implemented by the interaction components. This services platform validates the PIASK architecture for end-to-end provisioning of multi-modal, heterogeneous, ontology-based services. The development of KnowNet was informed on one hand by the latest trends within service architectures, semantic web technologies and social applications, and on the other hand by the context consideration based on the profile (IK systems dynamics, infrastructure, usability requirements) of the Dwesa community. The realization of the service platform is based on the JADE Multi-Agent System (MAS), and this shows the applicability and adequacy of MAS’s for service deployment in a rural context, at the same time providing key advantages such as platform fault-tolerance, robustness and flexibility. While the context of conceptualization of PIASK and the implementation of KnowNet is that of rurality and of ICT4D, the applicability of the architecture extends to other similarly heterogeneous and context-sensitive domains. KnowNet has been validated for functional and technical adequacy, and we have also undertaken an initial prevalidation for social context sensitivity. We observe that the five tier PIASK architecture provides an adequate framework for developing context-sensitive and ethnocentric software: by functionally separating and making explicit the social networking and access tier components, while still maintaining the traditional separation of presentation, business logic and data components.
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Nasim, Robayet. "Architectural Evolution of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) using Cloud Computing." Licentiate thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap (from 2013), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-35719.
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With the advent of Smart Cities, Intelligent Transport System (ITS) has become an efficient way of offering an accessible, safe, and sustainable transportation system. Utilizing advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), ITS can maximize the capacity of existing transportation system without building new infrastructure. However, in spite of these technical feasibilities and significant performance-cost ratios, the deployment of ITS is limited in the real world because of several challenges associated with its architectural design. This thesis studies how to design a highly flexible and deployable architecture for ITS, which can utilize the recent technologies such as - cloud computing and the publish/subscribe communication model. In particular, our aim is to offer an ITS infrastructure which provides the opportunity for transport authorities to allocate on-demand computing resources through virtualization technology, and supports a wide range of ITS applications. We propose to use an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model to host large-scale ITS applications for transport authorities in the cloud, which reduces infrastructure cost, improves management flexibility and also ensures better resource utilization. Moreover, we use a publish/subscribe system as a building block for developing a low latency ITS application, which is a promising technology for designing scalable and distributed applications within the ITS domain. Although cloud-based architectures provide the flexibility of adding, removing or moving ITS services within the underlying physical infrastructure, it may be difficult to provide the required quality of service (QoS) which decrease application productivity and customer satisfaction, leading to revenue losses. Therefore, we investigate the impact of service mobility on related QoS in the cloud-based infrastructure. We investigate different strategies to improve performance of a low latency ITS application during service mobility such as utilizing multiple paths to spread network traffic, or deploying recent queue management schemes. Evaluation results from a private cloud testbed using OpenStack show that our proposed architecture is suitable for hosting ITS applications which have stringent performance requirements in terms of scalability, QoS and latency.Baksidestext: Intelligent Transport System (ITS) can utilize advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and maximize the capacity of existing transportation systems without building new infrastructure. However, in spite of these technical feasibilities and significant performance-cost ratios, the deployment of ITS is limited in the real world because of several challenges associated with its architectural design. This thesis studies how to design an efficient deployable architecture for ITS, which can utilize the advantages of cloud computing and the publish/subscribe communication model. In particular, our aim is to offer an ITS infrastructure which provides the opportunity for transport authorities to allocate on-demand computing resources through virtualization technology, and supports a wide range of ITS applications. We propose to use an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model to host large-scale ITS applications, and to use a publish/subscribe system as a building block for developing a low latency ITS application. We investigate different strategies to improve performance of an ITS application during service mobility such as utilizing multiple paths to spread network traffic, or deploying recent queue management schemes.
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Mitropoulos, Panagiotis. "An expert systems technology transfer model for the architecture-engineering-construction industry." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10102009-020054/.
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DeSerranno, Allen Ronald. "Enhancing the Internet of Things Architecture with Flow Semantics." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10636797.
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Internet of Things (‘IoT’) systems are complex, asynchronous solutions often comprised of various software and hardware components developed in isolation of each other. These components function with different degrees of reliability and performance over an inherently unreliable network, the Internet. Many IoT systems are developed within silos that do not provide the ability to communicate or be interoperable with other systems and platforms. Literature exists on how these systems should be designed, how they should interoperate, and how they could be improved, but practice does not always consult literature.
The work brings together a proposed reference architecture for the IoT and engineering practices for flow semantics found in existing literature with a commercial implementation of an IoT platform. It demonstrates that the proposed IoT reference architecture and flow-service-quality engineering practices when integrated together can produce a more robust system with increased functionality and interoperability. It shows how such practices can be implemented into a commercial solution, and explores the value provided to the system when implemented. This work contributes to the current understanding of how complex IoT systems can be developed to be more reliable and interoperable using reference architectures and flow semantics. The work highlights the value of integration of academic solutions with commercial implementations of complex systems.
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Roberts, Christopher Lee. "Information Technology Project Management of the New College of Education Facility at Western Kentucky University." TopSCHOLAR®, 2014. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1362.
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Information Technology (IT) Project Management methodologies are numerous, often varying from organization to organization, and sometimes from project to project within the same organization. Although project type and scope can be a powerful indicator of what methodologies may work best for a given project, choosing which methodology to use can be daunting for project teams. At times, even after due diligence has been practiced to identify the management options available for a given project, there may not be a perfect fit. At such times, or when a formal methodology does not exist in an organization or project management office, the best approach for a project may be to utilize a collective of “best practices,” instead of a concrete methodology. When tasked with the IT Project Management of the new Gary Ransdell Hall on WKU’s main campus, the IT Project Manager (PM) did not have a tried-and-true methodology to use for managing the project. As a result, the IT PM and project team chose to research best practices, as reflected in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), to formulate a project plan that would maximize efficiency while protecting the triple constraints. Early in this paper, the author outlines assumptions, constraints, and risks that faced the IT team throughout the project cycle. Afterwards, the resulting methods and procedures used to manage the IT scope for the project are discussed, with figures included for reference. Next, a brief project summary is included to summarize the results of the project, with performance and scope metrics and limited end-user feedback. Finally, the lessons learned section outlines changes that have been implemented since project completion, as part of a continuous improvement effort by the WKU IT Division.
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Chan, Kai Kin. "Managing service-oriented data analysis workflows using semantic web technology." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2009. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1055.
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Patel, Dhwani S. "GoSchoolPro| A Web Portal for the Students Using MVC Architecture and ASP.NET Framework." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10264338.
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Every year a plethora of students come to pursue their careers at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). The university supports an arena of web portals for enrollment, courses, department, student recreation and wellness amongst others.
Although there are enrollment services available, they involve mandatory check-ins and paperwork. GoSchoolPro portal eases the process of enrollment for the students by providing convenient services. This portal will not only help in facilitating the process for the incoming students but will also give voice to the past experiences of the alumni. It will be a student democrat: For the students and by the students.
The current project presents GoSchoolPro as a web application, which leverages the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture as its foundation and implements the Active Server Pages using Dot NET (ASP.NET) framework. GoSchoolPro uses the backbone of the Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) methodology and other Software Engineering (SE) best practices.
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Clancey, Gregory K. "Foreign Knowledge or art nation, earthquake nation : architecture, seismology, carpentry, the West, and Japan, 1876-1923." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9389.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 1999.Includes bibliographical references.
This dissertation follows British professors at Tokyo's late nineteenth century College of Technology (Kobudaigaku) and continues into the twentieth century with the Japanese students they trained. My first chapters map out an argument between British disciplines over Japanese 'adaptation' and/or 'resistance' to nature, a conflict driven by the development of the modem science of seismology in Tokyo. Seismology was a unique cross-cultural project - a 'Western' instrumental science invented and first institutionalized in a non-Western place. I discuss bow artifacts as diverse as seismographs, five-story wooden pagoda, and Mt. Fuji became 'boundary objects' in a fierce dispute between spokesmen for science and an over the character of the Japanese landscape and people. The latter chapters explain bow young Japanese architects and seismologists re-mapped the discursive and instrumental terrains of their British teachers, challenging foreign knowledge-production from inside colonizing disciplines. The text is framed around the story of the Great Nobi Earthquake of 1891. According to contemporary Japanese narratives, the great earthquake (the most powerful in modem Japanese history) was particularity damaging to the new 'foreign' infrastructure, and caused Japanese to seriously question, for the first time, the efficacy of foreign knowledge. 'Japan's earthquake problem' went from being one of bow to import European resistance into a fragile nation, to one of how to make a uniquely fragile imported infrastructure resist the power of Japanese nature. I critically re-tell this Japanese story as a corrective to European and American images of Meiji .Japan as a 'pupil country' and the West as a 'teacher culture'. "Foreign Knowledge" demonstrates in very concrete ways bow science and technology, art and architecture, gender, race, and class co-constructed Meiji Japan. Distinctions between 'artistic' and 'scientific' representations of culture/nature were particularly fluid in late nineteenth century Tokyo. Architects in my text often speak in the name of science and seismologists become an critics and even ethnographers. The narrative is also trans-national; centered in Tokyo, it follows Japanese architects, scientists, and carpenters to Britain, Italy, the United States, and Formosa.
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Periasamy, Kanapaty Pelly. "Development and usage of information architecture : a management perspective." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:53bc9bbf-94c1-4480-9048-3f5d635fd260.
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Despite its emergence more than a decade ago, information architecture remains a problematic concept. A study of relevant literature suggests significant advocacy with inadequate supporting evidence on its existence, application or value. The available limited research evidence generally presents unsatisfactory information architecture experience. Notwithstanding the unresolved issues and reported unsatisfactory experience, information architecture continues to be referenced as an important information management issue. Hence this doctoral study sought to investigate it. In the first stage, the study set out to clarify the position of information architecture via a large scale postal survey of 294 organisations. The survey found that information architecture is being used in association with IS planning, particularly in organisations which position IT as a strategic resource, but perceptions on its two conventional key components vary. While application architecture is viewed as being useful for IS planning, corporate data model is seen as being more relevant to data management and project implementation. Both models are regarded as tools facilitating integrated information systems development. In the second stage of research, case studies on 6 large organisations were conducted to gain an in-depth understanding of successful information architecture practice. The investigation reaffirmed application architecture's position as an IS planning tool and cast further doubt on corporate data model's role not only in IS planning but also in IS practice as a whole. Business area/project data model was identified as the pragmatic high-level data model for both application/database development and data management. A major finding of the case studies was on business system architecture, a pictorial model depicting IT in its business setting. It is seen as being of value for integrating IS planning with strategy development and business planning - a tool for fusing IT with the business. The case studies concluded that the value and effectiveness of information architecture is dependent on the targeting of its components - business system architecture, application architecture and business area/project data model - in terms of tasks and recipients. The case for a holistic approach to business/IS planning and implementation is currently being argued by a number of leading management and IS scholars. This thesis embraces the holistic approach and positions the (redefined) information architecture as a valuable tool in its implementation.
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Greenwood, Thomas A. "A modular supply chain architecture for low-volume high-mix surface mount technology manufacturers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84340.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 109).
by Thomas A. Greenwood.
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Mahimane, Arati. "Effective Capacity Planning of the Virtual Environment using Enterprise Architecture." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367278818.
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Aragon, Camarasa Gerardo. "A hierarchical active binocular robot vision architecture for scene exploration and object appearance learning." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3640/.
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This thesis presents an investigation of a computational model of hierarchical visual behaviours within an active binocular robot vision architecture. The robot vision system is able to localise multiple instances of the same object class, while simultaneously maintaining vergence and directing its gaze to attend and recognise objects within cluttered, complex scenes. This is achieved by implementing all image analysis in an egocentric symbolic space without creating explicit pixel-space maps and without the need for calibration or other knowledge of the camera geometry. One of the important aspects of the active binocular vision paradigm requires that visual features in both camera eyes must be bound together in order to drive visual search to saccade, locate and recognise putative objects or salient locations in the robot's field of view. The system structure is based on the “attentional spotlight” metaphor of biological systems and a collection of abstract and reactive visual behaviours arranged in a hierarchical structure. Several studies have shown that the human brain represents and learns objects for recognition by snapshots of 2-dimensional views of the imaged scene that happens to contain the object of interest during active interaction (exploration) of the environment. Likewise, psychophysical findings specify that the primate’s visual cortex represents common everyday objects by a hierarchical structure of their parts or sub-features and, consequently, recognise by simple but imperfect 2D view object part approximations. This thesis incorporates the above observations into an active visual learning behaviour in the hierarchical active binocular robot vision architecture. By actively exploring the object viewing sphere (as higher mammals do), the robot vision system automatically synthesises and creates its own part-based object representation from multiple observations while a human teacher indicates the object and supplies a classification name. Its is proposed to adopt the computational concepts of a visual learning exploration mechanism that controls the accumulation of visual evidence and directs attention towards the spatial salient object parts. The behavioural structure of the binocular robot vision architecture is loosely modelled by a WHAT and WHERE visual streams. The WHERE stream maintains and binds spatial attention on the object part coordinates that egocentrically characterises the location of the object of interest and extracts spatio-temporal properties of feature coordinates and descriptors. The WHAT stream either determines the identity of an object or triggers a learning behaviour that stores view-invariant feature descriptions of the object part. Therefore, the robot vision is capable to perform a collection of different specific visual tasks such as vergence, detection, discrimination, recognition localisation and multiple same-instance identification. This classification of tasks enables the robot vision system to execute and fulfil specified high-level tasks, e.g. autonomous scene exploration and active object appearance learning.
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Armstrong, James R. "Boolean weightless neural network architectures." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2011. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/5325/.
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A collection of hardware weightless Boolean elements has been developed. These form fundamental building blocks which have particular pertinence to the field of weightless neural networks. They have also been shown to have merit in their own right for the design of robust architectures. A major element of this is a collection of weightless Boolean sum and threshold techniques. These are fundamental building blocks which can be used in weightless architectures particularly within the field of weightless neural networks. Included in these is the implementation of L-max also known as N point thresholding. These elements have been applied to design a Boolean weightless hardware version of Austin’s ADAM neural network. ADAM is further enhanced by the addition of a new learning paradigm, that of non-Hebbian Learning. This new method concentrates on the association of ‘dis-similarity’, believing this is as important as areas of similarity. Image processing using hardware weightless neural networks is investigated through simulation of digital filters using a Type 1 Neuroram neuro-filter. Simulations have been performed using MATLAB to compare the results to a conventional median filter. Type 1 Neuroram has been tested on an extended collection of noise types. The importance of the threshold has been examined and the effect of cascading both types of filters was examined. This research has led to the development of several novel weightless hardware elements that can be applied to image processing. These patented elements include a weightless thermocoder and two weightless median filters. These novel robust high speed weightless filters have been compared with conventional median filters. The robustness of these architectures has been investigated when subjected to accelerated ground based generated neutron radiation simulating the atmospheric radiation spectrum experienced at commercial avionic altitudes. A trial investigating the resilience of weightless hardware Boolean elements in comparison to standard weighted arithmetic logic is detailed, examining the effects on the operation of the function when implemented on hardware experiencing high energy neutron bombardment induced single event effects. Further weightless Boolean elements are detailed which contribute to the development of a weightless implementation of the traditionally weighted self ordered map.
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Sutherland, Timothy Michael. "D-CAPE -- A self-tuning continuous query plan distribution architecture." Link to electronic thesis, 2004. http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-0505104-120617/.
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Manaktala, Rohit Sudhish. "Optimization of Disaster Recovery Leveraging Enterprise Architecture Ontology." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374206497.
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Karkera, Sohan Sadanand. "Implementation of Distributed Cloud System Architecture using AdvancedContainer Orchestration, Cloud Storage, and Centralized Database for a Web-based Platform." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1613750624346862.
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Sehgal, Anil. "CloudMEMS Platform for Design and Simulation of MEMS: Architecture, Coding, and Deployment." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1532963816803508.
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Paulsson, Fredrik. "Modularization of the Learning Architecture : Supporting Learning Theories by Learning Technologies." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Datavetenskap och kommunikation, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4712.
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Thekahally, Shubhashree. "Effect of Retiring Custom Web Applications on Business and Information Technology Alignment." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/218.
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Web applications provide the information technology (IT) implementation of business and align IT with business. Retirement of IT applications should ensure stability of business and IT alignment. The current study investigated the alignment gaps created between business and IT resulting from retiring IT software applications. The purpose of this study was to identify IT integration points with business and provide a process-based solution that sustained IT alignment with business after retiring IT applications. The theoretical framework strategic alignment model aided in identifying 3 IT domains as the IT integration points with business: enterprise architecture, configuration management database, and service-level agreement. The research methodology was grounded theory method. A process-in-operation facilitating application retirement generated the data. The grounded theory approach revealed the core category as IT and business alignment and established that the identified IT domains enabled IT alignment with business. The research findings revealed that structured decommissioning, timely repository updates, and 2-way communication between IT and business ensured continued accuracy and reliability of the repositories so business made valid interpretations. The findings may enable employees to realize their self-worth and dignity, leading to increased collaboration and coordination. The positive social change implications of these findings are in the increased alignment between IT and business, resulting in improved overall employee performance.
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Hale, Jonathan. "Architectural interpretation : philosophy, technology, embodiment." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503906.
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Estlund, Mark J. "A survey and analysis of access control architectures for XML data." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FEstlund.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.Thesis Advisor(s): Cynthia E. Irvine, Timothy E. Levin. "March 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-45). Also available online.
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Pretlove, Stephen Edward Charles. "Predicting relative humidity in UK dwellings." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555004.
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Mould growth affects a significant proportion of dwellings in the UK and Europe. The house dust mite is also known to inhabit most dwellings and is one of the key factors affecting the health of the occupants. One of the key variables affecting mould growth and house dust mite populations is relative humidity. The relative humidity in a dwelling is dependent upon both the moisture levels and the temperature. The ability to assess the impact of different interventions on the relative humidity depends upon the ability to model both the internal temperature and the internal vapour pressure. This thesis develops, tests and assesses the impact of four combined moisture and thermal models which predict micro-environmental relative humidity. Two thermal models are tested, the BREDEM-8 monthly model, and the BREDEM-12 seasonal model. To each of these, two moisture models have been integrated including Loudon's steady-state moisture model and Jones' admittance moisture model. The BREDEM-8 Loudon model has been shown to be the most accurate model for predicting the airspace relative humidity in 36 dwellings during the heating season. The BREDEM-8 Loudon model has then undergone further development and testing and the applications of the model are investigated. A variable infiltration calculation has been implemented and tested within the BREDEM-8 Loudon model and the results show no improvement in the model prediction accuracy. Surface relative humidity calculations have also been incorporated for all dwelling surfaces, including cold bridges, and the significance of predicting surface conditions has been evaluated. The impact of fuel poverty is tested using simple versions of the BREDEM-8 Loudon model which have been adapted to account for situations where the expenditure available for fuel is limited and where the heating system is inadequately sized. Finally, a Mould Index has been developed which indicates the risk of mould growing on the coldest surfaces in a dwelling and various interventions in dwelling design and use are tested against this index and against the Affordable Warmth Index which defines the affordability of a particular dwelling. The results demonstrate a number of significant limitations in the current British Standard for condensation in buildings, BS 5250: 1989. It has been shown that the geographical and seasonal variations in internal relative humidity are significant, and that the highest relative humidity is unlikely to coincide with the coldest period of the year. It has also been shown that the modelling of surface conditions is critical in the assessment of mould growth in dwellings. Sensitivity studies carried out on the BREDEM-8 Loudon model have shown the most significant variables affecting the relative humidity predictions are the demand temperature, the heating pattern, the number of occupants, the ventilation rate and the level of insulation. The adequate sizing of the heating system and the ability of the occupants to afford to heat the dwelling to a comfortable temperature have been shown to be essential. It has also been shown that a change in the dwelling design or use may improve the affordability but may also lead to an increased risk from mould growth.
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Luo, Yan. "Radical Architecture, Collective Mindfulness, and Information Technology: A Dialectical Analysis of Risk Control in Complex Socio-Technical Systems." online version, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=case1228450166.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Case Western Reserve University, 2009.Department of Information Systems, Weatherhead School of Management. Includes bibliographical references. Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.
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Trevethan, Thomas J. "Building Cloud-Based Information Systems Lab Architecture: Deriving Design Principles that Facilitate the Effective Construction and Evaluation of a Cloud-Based Lab Environment." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/56.
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The problem explored in this dissertation report was that at the time of this study, there were no design principles or methodologies based on design science research (DSR) available to use for artifact construction, implementation, and effective evaluation of cloud-based networking lab environments that can be used to foster hands-on technology skills in students. Primarily based on Hevner’s 7 guidelines of DSR, Peffer’s design science research methodology (DSRM), and Gregor’s IS design theory, this study forms the groundwork for the development of procedures and specifications derived from DSR literature to facilitate the construction, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive cloud-based computer and information systems (CIS) laboratory artifact that is globally accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Secondarily, this study guided the construction and implementation of a prototype cloud-based lab environment using the procedures and specifications derived from DSR. The cloud-based lab environment was then evaluated based on the skill level attained by students enrolled in courses that leveraged the proposed system. Results of this study showed that the overwhelming majority of the students who participated in the experiment using the cloud-based lab environment showed statistically significant gains in pretest and posttest scores compared to the students who participated in the experiment using the classroom-based physical equipment. These results fully supported the first hypothesis for this study, that participation in the cloud-based lab environment would promote positive student outcomes. The second hypothesis also was supported. The majority of the experimental group students completed most of the labs and significantly spent more time on the system compared to the control group students using the traditional classroom-based physical lab equipment, which indicated the specifications derived from DSR positively influenced the use of the cloud-based system. An argument was made that the proposed study advances IS and education research through artifact construction and evaluation by correlating Hevner’s 7 steps of effective DSR theory, Peffer’s DSRM, and Gregor’s IS design theory to the problem statement, research questions, and hypothesis in order to develop guiding principles and specifications for building and assessing a cloud-based lab environment.
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Demblewski, Michael. "Security Frameworks for Machine-to-Machine Devices and Networks." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/68.
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Attacks against mobile systems have escalated over the past decade. There have been increases of fraud, platform attacks, and malware. The Internet of Things (IoT) offers a new attack vector for Cybercriminals. M2M contributes to the growing number of devices that use wireless systems for Internet connection. As new applications and platforms are created, old vulnerabilities are transferred to next-generation systems. There is a research gap that exists between the current approaches for security framework development and the understanding of how these new technologies are different and how they are similar. This gap exists because system designers, security architects, and users are not fully aware of security risks and how next-generation devices can jeopardize safety and personal privacy. Current techniques, for developing security requirements, do not adequately consider the use of new technologies, and this weakens countermeasure implementations. These techniques rely on security frameworks for requirements development. These frameworks lack a method for identifying next generation security concerns and processes for comparing, contrasting and evaluating non-human device security protections. This research presents a solution for this problem by offering a novel security framework that is focused on the study of the “functions and capabilities” of M2M devices and improves the systems development life cycle for the overall IoT ecosystem.
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Magharei, Nazanin 1979. "Peer-to-peer streaming: Design and challenges." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11089.
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xxii, 413 p. : ill.Streaming multimedia content over the Internet is extremely popular mainly due to emerging applications such as IPTV, YouTube and e-learning. All these applications require simultaneous streaming of multimedia content from one or multiple sources to a large number of users. Such applications impose unique requirements in terms of server bandwidth and playback delay which are difficult to achieve in a scalable fashion with the traditional client-server architecture. Peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays offer a promising approach to support scalable streaming applications, that we broadly refer to as "P2P streaming". Design of a scalable P2P streaming mechanism that accommodates heterogeneity of peers' bandwidth and copes with dynamics of peer participation while ensuring in-time delivery of the multimedia content to individual peers is extremely challenging. Besides these fundamental challenges, P2P streaming applications are facing practical issues such as encouraging peers' contribution and decreasing the costly inter-ISP P2P traffic. In this dissertation, we study several aspects of live P2P streaming with the goal of improving the performance of such systems. This dissertation can be categorized into two parts as follows. ( i ) We present the design and evaluation of a mesh-based live P2P streaming mechanism, called PRIME. Further, we perform a head-to-head comparison between the two approaches on live P2P streaming, namely tree-based and mesh-based. We demonstrate the superiority of the mesh-based approach. In the quest for a systematic comparison of existing mesh-based solutions on live P2P streaming, we leverage the insights from our design in PRIME and propose an evaluation methodology. Utilizing the evaluation methodology, we compare the performance of existing mesh-based live P2P streaming solutions. ( ii ) From a more practical perspective, we tackle some of the existing practical issues in the deployment of live P2P streaming applications, namely providing incentives for participating peers to contribute their resources and designing ISP-friendly live P2P streaming protocols with the ultimate goal of reducing costly inter-ISP traffic. In the end, this dissertation reveals fundamental trade-offs in the design, comparison and meaningful evaluation of basic and practical live P2P streaming mechanisms under realistic settings. This dissertation includes my previously published and my co-authored materials.
Committee in charge: Prof. Reza Rejaie, Chair; Prof. Virginia Lo; Prof. Jun Li; Prof. David Levin; Prof. Markus Hofmann
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Amara, Pavan Kumar. "Towards a Unilateral Sensor Architecture for Detecting Person-to-Person Contacts." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703441/.
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The contact patterns among individuals can significantly affect the progress of an infectious outbreak within a population. Gathering data about these interaction and mixing patterns is essential to assess computational modeling of infectious diseases. Various self-report approaches have been designed in different studies to collect data about contact rates and patterns. Recent advances in sensing technology provide researchers with a bilateral automated data collection devices to facilitate contact gathering overcoming the disadvantages of previous approaches. In this study, a novel unilateral wearable sensing architecture has been proposed that overcome the limitations of the bi-lateral sensing. Our unilateral wearable sensing system gather contact data using hybrid sensor arrays embedded in wearable shirt. A smartphone application has been used to transfer the collected sensors data to the cloud and apply deep learning model to estimate the number of human contacts and the results are stored in the cloud database. The deep learning model has been developed on the hand labelled data over multiple experiments. This model has been tested and evaluated, and these results were reported in the study. Sensitivity analysis has been performed to choose the most suitable image resolution and format for the model to estimate contacts and to analyze the model's consumption of computer resources.
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Voigt, Thiemo. "Architectures for Service Differentiation in Overloaded Internet Servers." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala Univ, 2002. http://publications.uu.se/theses/91-506-1559-9/.
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Young, Jeffrey. "Dynamic partitioned global address spaces for high-efficiency computing." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26467.
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Thesis (M. S.)--Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009.Committee Chair: Yalamanchili, Sudhakar; Committee Member: Riley, George; Committee Member: Schimmel, David. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.
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Park, Peter. "Application of design synthesis technology in architectural practice." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12210/.
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The use of computational tools and techniques has opened up new possibilities in architectural form generation. In parallel there have also been developments in structural engineering analysis and design methods, with the primary focuses being on accurate modelling of material behaviour and structural stability, and on ensuring economy. Having accepted that form and structure are mutually concomitant, something that is particularly important when considering freeform architecture, there are two distinct design approaches: (i) shapedriven architectural forms and adoption of creative integrated postrationalisation for a predefined freeform, and (ii) form-structure integration from conception, manifested by a growing number of methods for use at various stages in the design process. In this regard, a truss layout optimisation technique is proposed as a versatile design tool. This has a potential role in both these approaches to form generation at the conceptual design stage. A series of design studies are employed for this purpose, and generated forms are discussed. Additionally, further form generation possibilities are explored, using an extended version of the aforementioned technique. As a representative example, ‘tensegrity’ forms are studied in greater detail. The generated forms are extensively tested using a commercial structural analysis package, in order to verify the correctness of the conclusions drawn.
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Sun, Ming. "Technology transfer, architectural design and integrated building design systems." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/368.
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This study investigates issues concerning the technology transfer from research to practice in the building industry. It is divided broadly into two parts. The first part concentrates on current problems in this transfer process. The second part explores the potential of an integrated building design system as a solution to the existing problems. It has been widely acknowledged that many research findings and proven technologies have not been fully utilised by architects in practice. A review of the current research and design practice in the building industry has revealed a number of obstacles to this transfer process. One of the major obstacles is the gap between architects' requirements in terms of technical support and the provision of existing design support systems. Based on extensive analyses, it has been concluded that an integrated approach is needed for the provision of design supports. The rapid increase in the application of computing facilities in design practice provides a promising platform for the development of a computer based Integrated Building Design System (IBDS). The main characteristics of an IBDS include (1) supporting multiple design tasks, (2) integrated and maintaining information exchange between different tasks, (3) responsive to architects' requests. A prototyping study is conducted in a wider context of a European research project, Computer Modelling in Building Industry in Europe (COMBINE). An IBDS prototype, MultiCAD, has been developed as a result, which demonstrates the concepts and feasibility of an integrated building design system in design support. It is expected that IBDS, such as MultiCAD, will play a key role in the improvement of architectural design support and hence the technology transfer in the building industry. Finally, conclusions of the study have been summarised and suggestions for future research in this area are outlined.
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Lu, Shiting. "Micro-architectural Attacks and Countermeasures." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-65733.
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Micro-architectural analysis (MA) is a fast evolving area of side-channel cryptanalysis. This new area focuses on the effects of common processor components and their functionalities on the security of software cryptosystems. The main characteristic of micro-architectural attacks, which sets them aside from classical side-channel attacks, is the simple fact that they exploit the micro-architectural behavior of modern computer systems. Attackers could get running information through malicious software, then get some sensitive information through off-line analysis. This kind of attack has the following features: 1.) side channel information are acquired through software measurement on target machine with no need to use sophisticated devices. 2.) non-privilege process could get the running information of the privilege process. 3.) people can mount both a remote attack and local attack. This thesis mainly focuses one kinds of these attacks, data cache based timing attacks(CBTA). First, the main principle of CBTA is introduced, and several kinds of CBTA technique are discussed. Moreover, theoretical model is given under some attacks. Second, various countermeasures are described and their advantages and disadvantages are pointed out. Based on these discussions, the author proposes two anti-attack measures using hardware modification. Aiming at access-driven attacks, a XOR address remapping technique is proposed, which could obfuscate the mapping relationship between cache line and memory block. Aiming at timing-driven attacks, the IPMG mechanism is proposed innovatively. This mechanism could generate cache miss dynamically through observing the historic miss rate. These two mechanisms are realized on the MIPS processor and their effectiveness is verified on the FPGA board. At last, performance penalty and hardware cost are evaluated. The result shows that the proposed solution is effective with very low performance penalty and area cost
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Peraino, Jim. "Architectural epidemiology : a computational framework." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127877.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, May, 2020Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, May, 2020
Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-76).
Architecture affects our health, especially in hospitals. However, our ability to learn from existing hospitals to design buildings that improve patient outcomes is limited. If we want to leverage large datasets of health outcomes to build knowledge about how architecture affects health, then we need new methods for analyzing spatial data and health data jointly. In this thesis, I present several steps toward the goal of developing a computational model of architectural epidemiology that aims to leverage both human and machine intelligence to do so. First, I outline the need for structured architectural datasets that capture spatial information in schemas that current drawing formats do not allow. These datasets need to be wide to capture multifaceted and qualitative aspects of the built environment, and so we need new methods to generate this data. Finally, we need strategies for surfacing insight from these datasets by involving both humans and machines in the process.
Next, I propose a framework to satisfy these criteria that consists of four components: 1) data sources, 2) feature engineering, 3) statistical analyses, and 4) decision-making activities. Two case studies provide in-depth illustrations of these components: The first presents a 3D interface that enables developers to create 3D visualizations of large health outcome datasets in architectural space while taking advantage of the Kyrix details-on-demand system's backend performance optimizations. The second tests the efficacy of neural network ablation to surface relationships between architectural characteristics and health outcomes using a synthetic dataset. It is not necessary to ignore human intuition if we want to take advantage of computational power, and it is not necessary to leave behind computational power if we want to take advantage of human intuition. By overcoming current technical barriers with the methods proposed in this thesis, we can work toward achieving both.
Ultimately, we can learn from our current environments to design buildings that improve our health.
by Jim Peraino.
S.M.
S.M.
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Albin, Andrew Wayne. "Computer technology: A new architectural frontier." Thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/13566.
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Computer technology represents a virtually unexplored medium and has brought architecture to the threshold of what could potentially be one of the greatest revolutions in its history. Precedents of all creative endeavors reveal how humans typically respond to such new mediums in terms of time and application. Once recognized as a new architectural medium, computer technology promises to establish a boundless environment which will redefine human interaction.
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Mohammad, Shafiee Maryam. "Architecture for Science: Space as an Incubator to Nurture Research." 2014. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/33.
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This thesis will study how scientific research environments should be designed, specifically addressing the issues beyond mere needs of research scientists. Assuming that the purpose of research is to create new knowledge and foster discoveries, as well as positively influence the community in its processes and results, this thesis will explore the potential of the influence of this building typology that has not been previously considered enough. The objectives of the thesis are on one hand, the changes in science disciplines and their reflections in the evolution among this building type, on the other hand, the impacts of research environment on scientific evolution. The question is, beyond support, can architecture promote and nurture science and enlighten scientists toward a new understanding of scientific activities? Based on this research, it is assumed that good science happens in spaces that are transparent and dynamically communicative. The methodologies, which will be used to address these objectives, include literature review, exploration of case studies, surveys and interviews with scientists about their use of the laboratory buildings, and the design of a prototype building for scientific research.
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Kung, Chao Chun, and 龔昭君. "Department of Architecture National Taiwan Universityof Science and Technology." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28213592404547809932.
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Abstract : The most of contract mode in Taiwan are Design-Bid-Build (DBB).The architecture or engineering firms commissioned by owner will develop feasibility study, basic design and detail design, at the same time, the contractor will not be decided before bidding procedure. All the equipment and material will not be approved by owner, those equipment size and interface location is not confirmed neither. Hence, all the equipment size are designed size in design phase, and not for real size in construction phase. You have to do again CSD/SEM (Combined Service Drawing / Structure, Electrical and，Mechanical)in construction phase, even though you have done in design phase. The reason is all the equipment size and interface location are different for both phases. All the piping routine and direction will be revised again according to approved equipment that provides real size and interface location, and it will be resulted in CSD/SEM again for those revised piping. In view of this, the BIM in design phase will be built for trunk piping and bigger equipment in order to review space location and line planning reasonability. This phase is not for planning branch piping location, because the thing changed is often happened during construction phase. Actually, the most of piping layout in design phase are not sure for during construction phase. We will discuss which level of development of BIM in design phase that can be extended to the construction phase for continuous utilization to avoid doing redundant effort without getting any benefits from BIM.
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Huang, Wen-Chieh, and 黃文杰. "The Impacts Of Science And Technology On Modern Architecture." Thesis, 1987. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17825699056852256737.
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Science and technology have changed man''s life style for several centuries. Not only did they revolutionize production methods, transforming the agriculturally based handicraft era onto an industrially, mechanically based era, they have also thoroughly altered cur systems of thinking. Unfortunately, however, scientific inventions and technological advancements have also given rise to crises endangering the entire eco-system because of man''s abuses , as a resuit a counter culture has been growing since the 1960 ''s, questioning the aims of science and seeking to develop an "alternative ", or "appropriate" technology. Needless to say, science and technology have greatly influenced the development of modern architecture, both directly by new engineering and production methods, and indirectly by changes in the social context. The present thesis atemps to examine the above mentioned influences, to correlate ''the interactive relationship between technology, architecture and the visual arts, and to evaluate the growth and change in modern architecture through a better understanding of science and technology. Finally, the writer hopes that the investigation will help him to better comprehand the definition of truth , as Louis Kahn has put it so well: "What will be has always been."
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Kim, Changkyu. "A technology-scalable composable architecture." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3279.
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Hirson, Brett Sean. "Science [non] fiction: science education through the performing arts." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/17873.
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Education in South Africa is experiencing challenges of interest in its learners towards science and
mathematics within the primary and secondary phases of learning. The result of this failed interest is
represented by the amount of scarce skills present in the technology, ICT and engineering sectors,
resulting in a lack of research and development of current and future technologies. The solution to
this problem is to create a lateral approach through learners’ interests by using performance media
as a medium of instruction. This intervention is established as part of the University of the
Witwatersrand where it will serve as a crucible of research, exploration and education of science and
technology through cross-faculty co-operation. Using the University’s vast academic and educational
resources, this intervention will become a staging ground for new scientific and technological
development conveyed through a variety of performance mediums which will be presented to
learners, students and the general public.
Situated adjacent to the Parktown Education Campus, this facility is the beginning of planned
expansion by the University linking its various campuses through Braamfontein civic district. The site
has an important historical and heritage association with Johannesburg - through its heritage
landmarks - and by its use through the National Children’s Theatre. Whilst this has been a site for
performance art over the last two decades, the expansion and integration of this building will
continue this legacy into the future through the exploration of new and dynamic performance
mediums.2014 Thesis - M.Arch(Prof.)
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Wenhold, Martin Werner. "The sense/sensation of space : a Railway Science, Technology and History Museum." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26842.
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The development of station design provided new dimensions to both the sense and sensation of space. This is to be recaptured in the design of the museum, which requires obtaining an understanding of the influence, implications and impact railway stations and their supporting infrastructure had on architecture, the cityscape and the urban fabric, due to their large size, area and enclosed volume. Station design has contributed to modern design through the need to satisfy the uninterrupted, free-space enclosure of large volumes, necessitating progress in the knowledge of the structural application of the new materials discovered during the Industrial Revolution from which the modern architect is still benefiting. The impact of stations in these three mentioned fields furthermore had an indirect impact on society. The determination of all these influences by stations and their design will form the research subject of this dissertation.Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2008.
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Ku, Huimin, and 古慧敏. "A Preliminary Study of Intelligent Architecture-related Courses in the University of science and Technology." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/br44k6.
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As the Earth''s extreme climate and global warming are getting worse each day，green builiding concepts are being promoted and implemented around the world to achieve ecological sustainability and slow down the consumption of energy resources for protecting the Earth﹒The Ministry of the interior Architectural Research Institute hasimplemented seven important evaluation indicatorssince 1998，the content of the assessment has been continuously increased and the relevant standards have been amended. The green building policy has been fully implemented﹒ The green building policy has been fully implemented noeadays﹒if green building can be integrated with a smartcontrol system，it''s enough to push the energy saving to a higher levelby intelligent technology﹒ However，the training system in universities and colleges seemsnot be effectively linkedwith the skills that are really needed in the fields related to the intelligent architecture﹒This study attempted to explore the training courses in schools that will be able to meet the needa of the industry﹒According to the survry made by the intelligent green builiding industry，the industry lacks interdisciplinary talents and university graduates can''t meet the industrial needs in timewhich resultsin the gapof learn and use﹒ This study suggested the university should seek the cooperation with the construction industry to create a special program which could meet the industrial needs in the most direct and effective way ﹒The university should review the existed training courses and reorganized the compulsory coursesand the elective courses to solve the gap of learn and use and to achieve the win-win situation for both of academy and industry﹒
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Thinyane, Mamello. "A knowledge-oriented, context-sensitive architectural framework for service deployment in marginalized rural communities /." 2009. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1674/.
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Albonesi, David Henry. "Architecture and technology tradeoffs in the design of high performance microprocessor-based systems." 1996. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9709569.
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Increasing levels of VLSI integration present new opportunities, and new challenges, for designers of high performance microprocessor-based systems. With more transistors at their disposal, architects are faced with complex decisions regarding processor features, cache hierarchies, and supporting several uniprocessor and multiprocessor target systems. In addition, as the speed gap between microprocessors and board-level technology continues to widen, a robust system-level design becomes a critical element for attaining acceptable performance. This dissertation describes STATS, a comprehensive, semi-automated, trade-off analysis toolset. STATS overcomes the limitations of previous approaches by including the processor, cache hierarchy, system interconnect, and main memory designs, technology and architectural considerations, and both uniprocessor and multiprocessor analysis, within a single framework. STATS employs a judicious combination of compilation, execution-driven simulation, analytical modeling, and Spice analysis tools to achieve a reasonable balance of accuracy and analysis time. STATS is used in three architectural investigations. The first, an in-depth analysis of cache hierarchy alternatives for the Alpha 21064A processor design, includes a comparison of employing one, two, or three levels of hierarchy. A detailed analysis demonstrates the importance of precisely characterizing all aspects of cache hierarchy design, including traffic rates, miss ratios, cycle time, latency, and bandwidth, to avoid incorrect design decisions. The second explores tradeoffs in the design of a next-generation 8-way super-scalar microprocessor-based workstation. Some conclusions are that trading off a smaller L1 Dcache size for more arithmetic units provides the best overall performance, and only marginal performance gains are obtained by using the package pins for an L3 cache rather than a direct main memory connection. Novel mechanisms for multi-porting L1 Dcaches and pipelining large, on-chip L2 caches are shown to achieve up to an 81% performance improvement over conventional methods. The third investigation concerns the cluster design of CC-NUMA multiprocessors using the 8-way superscalar microprocessor. The results demonstrate that integrating the main memory controller onto the microprocessor die considerably reduces bus utilization and improves multiprocessor performance by as much as 35%. Interleaving alternatives for the distributed main memory are explored, as well as options for managing bus utilization in future cluster designs.
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(7042886), Denise M. Wilder. "Utilizing Virtual Simulation Technology to Increase Implementation of Safe Aging in Place Modifications." Thesis, 2019.
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Dedicated industry
professionals from design, construction, and health care are working to provide
attractive, constructible, functional and safe home modifications for aging in
place. The commitment is to keep senior members of local communities in the homes
they love, rather than to segregate them into big box retirement communities.
This study explores the confidence level of both individuals interested in
aging place for themselves and their friends and family members in aging in
place modifications. In additions to those interested in aging in place for
themselves and their friends and family members, invested professionals from
design, construction and health care are surveyed to measure their confidence
in common modifications. A 3d walkthrough is tested to investigate if
confidence levels increase with the use of a walkthrough to communicate
recommended modifications.
Friends and family members of those intending to age in place were significantly more concerned about the safety of their aging person, than the aging person themselves. Those friends and family members were also more impacted by viewing the video walkthrough than any of the other groups.