The text presents the description of a research work that has as its main objective the development of a technological tool to support the maintenance activity of buildings, with resort to new information and visualization technologies. There were analyzed three main components of the building: roofs, facades and interior walls. A survey of the main anomalies that occur in these components, the...

This tutorial presents a recipe for the construction of a compute cluster for processing large volumes of data, using cheap, easily available personal computer hardware (Intel/AMD based PCs) and freely available open source software (Ubuntu Linux, Apache Hadoop). Introduction This article describes a straightforward way to build, install and operate a compute cluster from commodity hardware. A ...

In this paper, we present a case study of KBS engines built thanks to our knowledge-based system (KBS) development platform Lama. The Lama platform enables the software-level composition of KBS engines (hence PSMs) for a given task from reusable reasoning blocks. This paper emphasizes engine design activity and shows how our platform helps easily create new engines or modify existing ones. Inde...

This paper discusses Performance Based Maintenance Scheduling as an enabler for Optimised Building Operation in terms of cost, energy usage, and user comfort, and the role of collaborative networks in achieving these optimal conditions. We finally explain what categories of constraints need to be considered to organize performance based maintenance scheduling in a holistic and integrated manner

The use of software engineering knowledge for web application development is being complicated by its coarse-grained model. This model fit well for its originally intended use that was enabling authors especially researches to provide and maintain their content respectively their research results. The use of the web has changed dramatically during the last years and has established a new kind o...