Housing architecture as an industrial reality. Three recent examples

Post-Pandemic Housing Architecture: Lessons from Covid19

Like other crises, the coronavirus epidemic has had a significant impact on our lives. As a result, the built environment has changed in order to adapt to new conditions and needs. Since Covid19 will not be the first and possibly the last epidemic, housing design must also adapt to the new reality. At present, the spatial properties of housing are influenced by strategies of social distance, qu...

Surface Design in Virtual Reality as Industrial Application

Experiences from an Industrial Software Architecture course

Software architecture is seen as one of the key elements for achieving a high degree of reuse in product lines. To get more focus on architectures, many organizations want to improve their ability to find and maintain a successful architecture. To achieve this they have to involve their most senior designers. In this paper we discuss experiences from an industrial course on software architectur...

Robot Learning: Some Recent Examples

This paper provides a brief overview of three recent contributions to robot learning developed by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The first is the use of policy search algorithms that exploit new techniques in nonparameteric heteroscedastic regression to directly model policy-dependent distribution of cost [12]. Experiments demonstrate dynamic stabilization of a mobile m...

Three Equations Generating an Industrial Revolution?

In this paper we evaluate quantitatively the relationship between economic and demographic growth. We use simple models of endogenous growth, featuring human capital investment at the individual level in conjunction with either of two models of fertility choice, the B&B dynastic motive, and the B&J lateage-security motive. We find that exogenous improvements in agespecific survival probabilitie...