Low-Power Architectural Design Methodologies by Paul Eric Landman Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley Professor Jan M. Rabaey, Chair In recent years, power consumption has become a critical design concern for many VLSI systems. Nowhere is this more true than for portable, battery-operated applications, where power...

The design of architectural environments has to take into account various sources of heterogeneous information. Not only quantitative spatial constraints and qualitative relations but also functionally-dependent and abstract conceptualizations are relevant aspects for architectural design. We aim at a modular ontological approach based on the theory of E-connections to formally present and brin...

The design and development of sustainable software systems require software architects to consider a variety of architectural solutions and their trade-offs. With the frequent introduction of new architectural methods and software solutions, as well as, due to time-to-market constraints faced by software architects, considering even a subset of alternative architectural solutions during the dec...

Natural Light in Architectural Design: Element and Determinant Roger Neal Goldstein Submitted to the Department of Architecture on May 7, 1976 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture. The importance of natural light in our lives cannot be exaggerated. The religious, emotional, physiological, and perceptual effects of daylight upon human behavior have ...

There have been many systems developed that attempt to recover design and structure from code. In this paper, we present our experience with using one such tool, SoFi, to extract design structure from a large industrial system written in C. We compare the extracted structure to that which was intended by the designers of the system. We observe and categorize, for our system, the reasons why the...

This article discusses software architecture modelling for the design and development of interactive systems. Software architecture models should support properties and constraints prescribed by the software and cognitive psychology communities. From these observations, we derive a multi-agent framework applicable to the software design of interactive systems. An example shows how this general ...

the aim of this paper is to explore conventional methods of teaching the arch-design studio withideas of sustainability and creativity as agents of change. if this is realised, it means the students of architecture canbe grounded in designing with sustainability and creativity ideas and can be professionals that design and build withideas of creativity and sustainability. so, there are real bui...

It is becoming more and more clear that architectural design is a crucial step in building complex software. Architectural design involves the first and most crucial design decisions to meet the expected quality attributes [1]. Dealing with concerns that influence important quality attributes asks for an architecture-centric approach. In this paper we propose architectural concerns as basic con...

Geometric problems originating in architecture can lead to interesting research and results in geometry processing, computer aided geometric design, and discrete differential geometry. In this article we survey this development and consider an important problem of this kind: Discrete surfaces (meshes) which admit a multi-layered geometric support structure. It turns out that such meshes can be ...

As the technology increases the various attacks to the world also increases in form of diseases which cannot be cure in days. So t hey should be under the observation of doctor which will be some risk to the doctor for cont inuous observation. So to hold this condition we provide a system with an architecture of smart health protection using the WS Networking by which the sick people will be tr...