The VISA+ hardware architecture is the first of a new generation of graphics accelerators designed primarily to render bump-, texture-, environmentand environment-bump-mapped olygons. This paper presents examples of the main graphical capabilities and discusses methods and simplifications used to create high quality images. One of the key concepts in the VISA + design, the use of reflectance cu...

The proposed integration architecture aims at exploiting data semantics in order to provide a coherent and meaningful (with respect to a given conceptual model) view of the integrated heterogeneous information sources. The architecture is split into five separate layers to assure modularization, providing description, requirements, and interfaces for each. It favors the lazy retrieval paradigm ...

Security in Active Networks is still in its infancy! This paper presents a new Agent-Based Security architecture for the Active Network Infrastructure (ABSANI). It is explained why agents in combination with Java are considered the appropriate solution for security architecture and how this can be applied in the Active Networks. An agent-based Active Node architecture is introduced and ABSANI i...

We propose a software architecture that can ease and speed up the development process of controllers for heterogeneous swarm systems. It is inherently modular and allows behaviors to be combined in layers and reused in multiple controllers. This can potentially speedup the development process of controllers since they become much more readable and well structured. We validated the architecture ...

the historian-theoretician christian norberg-schulz, examining the development of his ideas across 30 years. while norberg-schulz started out with intentions in architecture (1963), a work that was clearly influenced by structuralist studies, he soon shifted to a phenomenological approach with existence, space and architecture (1971), and then with genius loci (1980) and the concept of dwelling...

making an investigation into the traditional architecture found in iran’s kavir, one can see an architecture that has emerged by merely changing the form of the face of the earth; this [complex] architecture is nothing but an intellectual use of simple land and water which simultaneously accords with the islamic environmental principles [ieps]. in this article, following a descriptive analysis ...

To construct more realistic virtual marine world, it required the marine environment and the production of objects through consideration of spatial characteristics and a system that can support the various forms of interactions. This paper proposes an architecture that includes realistic data, smart object modeling, 3D visualization and interaction that are the levels of the construction of the...

This paper presents a policy-supported architecture for adaptable service systems based on the combination of Reasoning Machines and Extended Finite State Machines. Policies are introduced to obtain flexibility with respect to specification and execution of adaptation mechanisms. The presented architecture covers two aspects: service system framework and adaptation mechanisms. The service syste...

The design of an electronic system with the recommendation functional architecture is described and the results of system learning with inputs simulating visual and verbal sensory inputs are presented. The differences from other cognitive architectural approaches are discussed, and it is emphasized that the recommendation architecture makes it possible for a system performing a complex combinat...

Signature based techniques have been well known for the Built-in §elf-test of integrated systems. We propose a novel test architecture which uses a judicious combination of mutual testing and signature testing to achieve low test area overhead, low aliasing probability and low test application time. The proposed architecture is powerful for testing highly concurrent systems in applications such...