Using Specification and Description Language for Life Cycle Assesment in Buildings

Using Specification and Description Language for Life Cycle Assesment in Buildings

The definition of a Life Cycle Assesment (LCA) for a building or an urban area is a complex task due to the inherent complexity of all the elements that must be considered. Furthermore, a multidisciplinary approach is required due to the different sources of knowledge involved in this project. This multidisciplinary approach makes it necessary to use formal language to fully represent the compl...

Life Cycle Assessment for Buildings

The work presents the results of some case studies oriented toward the investigation of the potential of Life Cycle Assessment evaluations in the area of environmental impacts related to the life cycle of buildings. In particular, the aspects connected with the performance behavior of building components (and of the entire building organisms) are dealt, in relation to users’ needs which are cha...

A Specification for CDL Character Description Language

A Specification for CDL Character Description Language

Representing cellular automata using Specification and Description Language

In this paper we show how to use Specification and Description Language (SDL) to represent cellular automata models. To achieve that we use a generalization of the common cellular automata, named m:n-CA, allowing the definition of multiple layers in a single cellular automata. Also we add some extension to SDL language to simplify the representation of these automata. Thanks SDL and m:n-CA the ...