Buried buildings as an example of architecture that strives to be energy efficient

Judging Strives to be Knowing

There is a vexing oversight at the end of Book V of the Republic. Socrates engages in a discussion ‘with’ or about the Lovers of Sights and Sounds, in order distinguish philosophers from the seekers of any new experience whatsoever. He’ll do this by showing that there is a difference between knowing, knowledge (γιγνῶσκειν, γνῶσις, ἐπιστήμη) and judging or belief (δοξάζειν, δόξα). This argument ...

nano-rods zno as an efficient catalyst for the synthesis of chromene phosphonates, direct amidation and formylation of amines

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Aggregating Opinions to Design Energy-Efficient Buildings

In this research-in-progress paper we present a new real world domain for studying the aggregation of different opinions: early stage architectural design of buildings. This is an important real world application, not only because building design and construction is one of the world’s largest industries measured by global expenditures, but also because the early stage design decision making has...

GreenMind - An Architecture and Realization for Energy Smart Buildings

Existing buildings are responsible for more than 40% of the world’s total primary energy consumption. Current building management systems fail to reduce unnecessary energy consumption and preserve user comfort at the same time mainly because they are unable to cope with dynamic changes caused by user’s interaction with the environment. To cope with this dynamicity, we propose a software archite...

Optimal Control of Energy Efficient Buildings