Insufficient airflow in the cavity of Double Skin façade (DSF) systems has resulted overheating risk and resulting reduction thermal performance cooling dominant climates. Previous research focused more on buoyancy-driven natural ventilation, there is a lack utilising wind-driven ventilation as force for heat dispersion from cavity. Additionally, geometrical features wind direction influential ...

This paper proposes a method for the reconstruction of city buildings with automatically derived textures that can be directly used for façade element classification. Oblique and nadir aerial imagery recorded by a multi-head camera system is transformed into dense 3D point clouds and evaluated statistically in order to extract the hull of the structures. For the resulting wall, roof and ground ...

High-end storage systems, such as those in large data centers, must service multiple independent workloads. Workloads often require predictable quality of service, despite the fact that they have to compete with other rapidly-changing workloads for access to common storage resources. We present a novel approach to providing performance guarantees in this highly-volatile scenario, in an efficien...

The topic of interactive narrative has been under research for many years. While there has been much research exploring the development of new algorithms that enable and enhance interactive narratives, there has been little research focusing on the question of how players understand and internalize their interactive narrative experiences. This paper addresses this problem through conducting a p...

Biomimicry inspired architects to solve complex design problems and develop adaptive solutions for enhancing the environmental quality. Fields of inspiration include energy efficiency, natural ventilation, daylighting, structural stability. In this paper, 144 biomimicry-inspired building skin alternatives have been developed improve daylighting performance in office buildings Assiut City, Egypt...

Component-based software engineering promotes a style of application construction based on composing pre-built and pre-validated components. Different component models have been proposed and standardized for creating such composable components. Each component model is independent of the others, however, and does not support composition with the other models. We present the Vienna Component Fram...

Urban models extracted from airborne data have to be refined for tasks like the generation of realistic visualisations from pedestrian viewpoints. Within the paper, terrestrial LIDAR data as well as façade imagery is used to increase the quality and amount of detail for the respective 3D building models. These models as they are available from airborne data collection provide a priori informati...