Traditional fossil fuels lead to environmental problems and are also depleting. A significant portion of global energy consumption is due to building’s air conditioning. Nowadays there is a great attention toward renewable and sustainable energy sources to support the buildings energy requirements. In this study, a solar cooling machine was designed for a three-floor residential building under ...

Abstract A high frequency asymptotic technique based on the Uniform Theory of Diffraction (UTD) is employed for building interior imaging. The analysis is implemented using a set of heuristic diffraction coefficients for dielectric wedges and corners with ray-tracing that accounts for multiple through-wall interactions within building. Comparisons with experimental data of the images formed by ...

The power of web services can only be realized when web services are utilized as building blocks to dynamically compose new web services. The Building Finder application is an example application that integrates information from several web services by modeling the web services as information sources in a mediator-based architecture. The paper also describes a mediator framework to dynamically ...

For a task like 3D building reconstruction, there are three main data sources carrying information which i s required for a highly automated data acquisition. These data sources are aerial images, Digital Surface Models (DSM), which can either be derived by stereo matching from aerial images or be directly measured by scanning laser systems, and { at least for highly developed countries { exist...

Many contemporary applications rely heavily on large scale distributed and heterogeneous data sources. The key constraints for building a distributed data query infrastructure for such applications are: scalability, consistency, heterogeneity, and network and resource dynamics. We designed and developed DObjects, a general-purpose query and data operations infrastructure that can be integrated ...

Self-efficacy relates to an individual's perception of their capabilities. It has a clear self-evaluative dimension leading to high or low perceived self-efficacy. Individual differences in perceived self-efficacy have been shown to be better predictors of performance than previous achievement or ability and seem particularly important when individuals face adversity. The study investigated the...