Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms involve the deep nesting of distinct components, where each component typically exhibits opportunities for distributed computation. Current RL libraries offer parallelism at the level of the entire program, coupling all the components together and making existing implementations difficult to extend, combine, and reuse. We argue for building composable RL c...

The business model of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is developing expeditiously and BIPV will soon be recognised as a building envelope material for the entire skins, among other alternatives such brick, wood, stone, metals, etc. This paper investigates effect climate on solar radiation components skins materials in northern hemisphere. selected cities are Stavanger Norway, Bern Swit...

Path planning is a fundamental problem, especially for various AEC applications, such as architectural design, indoor and outdoor navigation, and emergency evacuation. However, the conventional approaches mainly operate path planning on 2D drawings or building layouts by simply considering geometric information, while losing abundant semantic information of building components. To address this ...

the main of this paper is designing a model for holographic organization with identify the factors that effects on it. designing the holographic organization regarding components as dynamic capacity building, holistic environment, efficient human capital, increased self-managing, and smart structure aims at crystallizing the entire quality in each single part with the intention. this article is...

The key role of the building envelope in attaining building energy efficiency and satisfactory indoor comfort has long been established. Nevertheless, until recent times, all efforts and attention have mainly been focused on increasing and optimizing the thermal insulation of the envelope components. This strategy was a winning approach for a long time, but its limitations became obvious when u...

While current CAD (Computer-Aided Design) systems provide a variety of data representation schemes (e.g. wire-frames, surface, and solid modeling) and data exchange protocols, they fail to address automation issues in retrieval of building information to be used in different AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) applications. In these CAD systems, topological information (also known...

coustructing masonry building has been done in a large scale in our country. a ccording to the recorded statistics. it comprises the majority of building in our country. the loss of life and property as the result previous earthquakes reveals that masonry building have not functioned properly. meanwhile, their complex behaviors resulted from the heterogenons, nonlinear, and plate behavior of it...