green architecture, or green design, is an approach to building that minimizes harmful effects on human health and the environment. the “green” architect or designer attempts to safeguard air, water, and earth by choosing eco-friendly building materials and construction practices. so, green architecture is building and structure design philosophy that aims at minimal use of non-renewable and/or...

This paper presents an automatic method for gable roof detection in terrestrial images. The purpose of this study is to refine the roofs of a 3D city model automatically derived from aerial images. The input images consist of geo-referenced terrestrial images acquired by a mobile mapping system (MMS). The raw images have been rectified and merged into seamless façade texture images (one texture...

Double skin façade (DSF) system is used in high-rise buildings increasingly in the hot summer and cold winter zone in China, due to its advantages in sound proof, aesthetic appearance and energy efficiency. This paper demonstrated a method of obtaining the thermal characteristics of the double skin façade system using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques, and evaluated the energy perfo...

In addition to that, other available papers tackling the topic of applying FHIR to i2b2 CDW should be reviewed in the introduction/methodology in order to better assess this paper novelty (just to name a few: C3-PRO: Connecting ResearchKit to the Health System Using i2b2 and FHIR, Read only SMART-FHIR façade for i2b2, Evaluation of SMART-on-FHIR I2b2 cell using PCORNET data model, SMART on FHIR...

ABL is a reactive planning language, based on the Oz Project language Hap, designed specifically for authoring believable agents characters which express rich personality, and which, in our case, play roles in an interactive, dramatic story world called Façade. Here we give a brief overview of the language Hap and discuss the new features in ABL, focusing on ABL’s support for multicharacter coo...

The all glass façade of the extension of the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, situated in an urban park, acts under certain light conditions as a true mirror (Fig. 1). Numerous birds, mostly trushes, pigeons and woodcocks, die in collision with the building. Especially during the first months after the new wing was erected in 1995, a 'bang' or a sharp 'tick' on the window meant work for the bird departm...

In this paper, a method for morphological segmentation using shape information is presented. This method is based on a morphological operator named ultimate attribute opening (UAO). Our approach considers shape information to favor the detection of specific shapes. The method is validated in the framework of two applications: façade analysis and scene-text detection. The experimental results sh...