GIS is an effective tool to accumulate various kinds of numerical maps and the attribute data relating to road traffic noise and to analyze the correlations between the data. In addition, combining prediction method of the road traffic noise with the benefits of GIS allows us to evaluate the noise field, from the past to the future, at areas facing roads concerned. Since propagation of road tra...

There are limited data on air quality parameters, including airborne particulate matter (PM) in residential green buildings, which are increasing in prevalence. Exposure to PM is associated with cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, and since Americans spend almost 90% of their time indoors, residential exposures may substantially contribute to overall airborne PM exposure. Our objectives were...

It is important to know how urban areas change for monitoring the evolution of demographics, lifestyles, and economic trends. The objective of this paper is to present a method for determining the occurrence of building change between two dates. The information on buildings for the first date comes from digital cartography and for the second date comes from spatial imagery and LIDAR data. A Sup...

In human-robot communication it is often important to relate robot sensor readings to concepts used by humans. We suggest to use a virtual sensor (one or several physical sensors with a dedicated signal processing unit for recognition of real world concepts) and a method with which the virtual sensor can be learned from a set of generic features. The virtual sensor robustly establishes the link...

The development of design seismic forces is reviewed. The earthquake engineering was shown to have developed in the last 60 years. The characteristics of ground motion and structural response were gradually understood over the last five decades. The damage statistics from recent major earthquakes indicated that the severe damage was observed in taller buildings. The ratios of buildings with ope...

Ancient architecture is an important cultural symbol of a nation, which has high historical, artistic and technology of cultural value. A building not only carries the creator of effort, but also the past with the future of the historical traditions and humanistic significance. It is not purely construction of artistic expression, even more the witness of the production and development of socia...

In this paper, we briefly introduce different types of buildings such as spherical buildings, Euclidean buildings, twin buildings, R-buildings and describe some of their applications to many subjects: (1) differential geometry such as Mostow strong rigidity, rank rigidity of nonpositively curved manifolds, Margulis superrigidity, quasi-isometry rigidity, classification of isoparametric manifold...

Constructing an indicator to measure the effectiveness of energy management is important for energy agencies and authorities. This paper uses multiple linear regression method and data envelopment analysis to examine the effectiveness of energy management. First, the regression method using environmental factors is used to calculate the predicted energy usage intensity of each evaluated buildin...

Automatic texture mapping is an important task in enrichment of the common 3D city models. A significant part of all algorithms for automated texture mapping is the visibility checking. Nowadays most algorithms for texture extraction use visibility check based on z-buffer or polygon intersection in the image plane. Thus, the visibility of particular face is calculated for every frame independen...