A lot of field investigations for damage to buildings are carried out after large earthquakes. In concordance with the variety of investigations, the building damage descriptions are really incoherent because a well-coordinated damage scale has not been prepared yet. This paper proposed a new chart for describing the building damage patterns by seismic vulnerability so as to help investigators ...

Exceeded losses of nonstructural components from structural ones in most demolished buildings in previous earthquakes and its limitation on functionality of critical facilities and building serviceability after earthquakes should be got the point of view for accounting loss of building as a merit for building performance. This paper attempts to demonstrate the significant role of distribution p...

This position paper suggests an approach for building software systems using patterns, right from business architecture to software architecture. Further, the approach incorporates a concurrent and iterative development process to ensure that the business architecture and software architecture are aligned, end to end. Usage of patterns leads to reuse of various artifacts, involved in the softwa...

The work in using and writing patterns began with Christopher Alexander who wrote A Timeless Way of Building [Alexander79] and A Pattern Language [Alexander+77] in the 1970s. When the software community began studying his ideas, interest in patterns began to spread throughout the software development industry in the 1990s. However, efforts to introduce patterns into organizations have had mixed...

This paper explores the representation of security concerns and their interactions appropriate for a Model Driven Development approach. The focus is on the representation of the security concerns early in the development process and as abstract forms easily related to the security aspects of the solution requirements, but in a manner that allows for the controlled refinement into a solution. Th...