An efficient urban energy system could be a highly diverse and well-integrated structure of buildings and systems. Such a structure needs an energy management framework capable of providing information on appropriate energy saving measures at any scale of implementation. This paper proposes a method to design such a framework. For quality assurance, a method to deal with the uncertainty in buil...

This position paper takes a bottom-up approach that analyzes the suitability of UML for modeling aspect-oriented software, and compares it with the UML support for modeling object-oriented software. We first introduce the basic concepts of AspectJ, a state-of-the-art aspect-oriented programming language, and then take a naïve approach using standard UML, as it is, for modeling these concepts. A...

We present a new approach to accurately evaluate signal integrity in digital integrated circuits while working at the logic level. Our approach makes use of fitting models to represent the key properties of drivers, interconnects and receivers and the effects of all noise sources (supply noise, timing uncertainty, crosstalk). Such models are then combined to evaluate the correctness of each bit...

The lifespan for offshore wind farms (OWFs) is between 20 and 25 years, with a growing demand renewable energy, the number of OWFs approaching decommissioning phase will dramatically increase in coming years. This paper presents new cost model by adopting bottom-up approach removal transportation phases OWF projects. Based on experience Oil Gas industry, project percentage breakdown analysis al...

Fast fashion has emerged in the last few decades, clothes have become cheaper, less durable and are purchased more frequently. Shifting consumers away from fast is challenging, even for ethically minded. Individuals different decisionmaking practices respond differently to social norms. Even most minded engage ‘grey’ consumption susceptible planned obsolescence cycles (McDonald et al., 2012). T...

Abstract Herein, this work aims to develop a facile method for the fabrication of metallic mechanical metamaterial with well-ordered diamond structure from bottom-up approach using self-assembled block copolymer templated electrochemical deposition. By controlling effective volume fraction PDMS in PS- b -PDMS via solvent annealing followed by HF etching PDMS, it is feasible obtain nanoporous PS...