Intelligent building (IB) technologies have widespread applications in the building design and development. In this regard, it is necessary to develop intelligent building assessment models in order to satisfy the clients, professionals, and occupants' growing demands. To this end, this paper proposes an integrated analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and preference degree approach (PDA) under the ...

The word intelligent to talk about a city, building and so on, is overused today that one carefully avoids delimiting its contours. We admit the existence of varied variable intelligences based on our knowledge, requirements, necessities. Among living beings confronted with environment, some have more efficient form intelligence than others. refer three concepts as developed by Gilbert Simondon...

The networks of intelligent building are usually consist of a great number of smart devices. Since many smart devices only support on-site configuration and upgrade, and communication between devices could be observed and even altered by attackers, efficiency and security are two key concerns in maintaining and managing the devices used in intelligent building networks. In this paper, the autho...

An e-Learning platform together with its users may be seen as an Educational Network. Within such an Educational Network there are issues like: low reliability, unacceptable time response or bad resource management. The usual protocol between clients (users) and server (the e-Learning platform itself) is HTTP. This stateless protocol uses only request/response type interactions between clients ...

Hypermedia provides current authors with a new way to combine different media into single artefacts. These can be developed and marketed in the style of conventional media publications. Multimedia technologies not only bring the presentation of data stored as images, sound and video but also allow the incorporation of media specific input modes (e.g. natural language, speech, pen gesture), and ...

Various common definitions of intelligent buildings are discussed. A systems view of building design is a starting point for considering business, space and building management. An intelligent building helps an organisation to fulfil its objectives by facilitating the management of these resources and thereby increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the organisation. At an even more funda...