This paper discusses the flexibility KPIs proposed in context of Zero Emission Neighborhood (ZEN) definition for characterizing how a building or neighborhood exchanges energy with surrounding system and presents preliminary results testing them on single, archetype buildings. The are calculated as deviation flexible load from baseline, typical load. depend sources activated, well drivers goals...

A necessary and sufficient condition on the Walsh-spectrum of a boolean function is given, which implies that this function fulfills the Strict Avalanche Crit,erion. This condition is shown to be f W e d for a class of functions exhibiting simple spectral symmetries. Finally, an extended definition of the Strict Avalanche Criterion is proposed and the corresponding spectral characterization is ...

nowadays, numerous realities in the field of architecture has gathered architects’ concentration; this has alienated designer’s attention from theoretical thinking in the initial stages of design process. new considerations such as human attitude and orientation in urban areas, the environmental impacts, behavioral relations between man and building, considering sociology and psychology in crea...

In this paper, a computationally simple approach for damage localization and quantification in beam-like structures is proposed. This method is based on using modal flexibility curvature (MFC) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. Analytical studies in the literature have shown that changes in the modal flexibility curvature can be considered as a sensitive and suitable criterion for...

A major criticism of goals such as self-actualization is that they are too general, broad, and amorphous to be useful. The behaviorists, particularly, ask for operational definitions in terms of specific behaviors. This is a legitimate question. If a concept is significant and pertinent, it can, at least in principle or eventually, be reduced to specific, objective, or measurable variables. How...

this research was conducted to provide a desired pattern based on the relationship between entrepreneurial strategy and the dimensions of corporate entrepreneurial orientations in physical education organization. predictive variables were entrepreneurial strategy components (intensity of environmental investigation, flexibility of planning, planning vision, planning focus and control) and the c...

The density band model proposed by Kassam [1] for robust hypothesis testing is revisited in this paper. First, a novel criterion for the general characterization of least favorable distributions is proposed, which unifies existing results. This criterion is then used to derive an implicit definition of the least favorable distributions under band uncertainties. In contrast to the existing solut...