Generally, process patterns are considered as patterns capturing reusable development activities, and serve as building blocks for constructing new processes. However, such a definition is not adequate to represent the original idea of process patterns that aims to capture and reuse diverse process knowledge. In this work, we broaden the definition and application of process patterns to take mo...

Density is a critical typology in determining sustainable urban built-form patterns. Built-formrefers to the assemblage and arrangement of the building masses in a city reflecting the spatial layout of spaces.The relationship between density and urban character is also based on at certain densities (thresholds). In a widersense, sustainable cities are a matter of density. Recent debates about t...

Due to low energy price, economic optimization of consumption has no justification for users in Iran. Nowadays, the issue of ending fossil fuels, production of greenhouse gases and the main role of building in consumption of considerable amount of energy has drawn the focus of global researches to a new concept called net zero energy building. In this study, modeling, simulation and energy anal...

In this paper we develop new techniques for predicting failures and monitoring in categorical event sequences. New techniques are needed because failures are rare and previous data mining algorithms were overwhelmed by the staggering number of very frequent, but entirely unpredictive patterns that exist in such databases. This paper combines several techniques for pruning out unpredictive and r...

the idea that the distinction of sciences has to be based on topics is facing serious criticisms and objections, since both arguments of the followers of this approach are violable and the history of science is replete with many examples that do not fit into this tight framework. this issue prompted some scholars such as muḥaqqiq khurāsānī to move toward distinction based on objective. this app...

Building type identification is an important task that may be used in confirming and verifying its legitimate operation. One of the main sources information over operation a building energy consumption, with analysis electricity patterns being at spotlight non-intrusive approach. However, are only source information, therefore, their imposes several restrictions. In this work, we introduce new ...

As a common space, urban entrance is the first place that introduces a city to its visitors and it is imprinted in the memory of people. This study aims to provide a detailed analysis of physical development and activity patterns along the main entrance of Rasht, Iran. Utilized data in this research comes from a questionnaire survey through which 707 land lots along the main entrances were stu...

Nonlinear static procedure (NSP) is a common technique to predict seismic demands on various building structures by subjecting a monotonically increasing horizontal loading (pushover) to the structure. Therefore, the pushover analysis is an important part of each NSP. Accordingly, the current paper aims at investigating the efficiencyof various algorithms of lateral load patterns applied to the...

Airflow at the beach creates sand deposition patterns around buildings. To assess how initial depend on orientation of a building relative to wind direction and spacing between buildings, series one-day field experiments was conducted with cuboid scale models, in which 34 configurations were tested. Scale models placed further apart than 2 3 times width created that similar those for stand-alon...