This paper proposes an architecture for designing fault-tolerant distributed object systems. The proposed architecture attempts to bring advances in client-server, remote procedure call, reliable group communication, and object orientation technologies under a uni ed architecture to ease application developers' work of building reliable distributed systems. The result application systems should...

By engineering thin magnetic films onto homogeneous colloidal particles, various crystalline lattices are induced from simple magnetic Janus spheres. In situ formation of dicolloids amplifies the diversity of achievable dynamic structures. The competition between shape anisotropy and dipole orientation generates mesoscopic isomerism. This opens design space for anisotropic building blocks for s...

In this paper an efficient requirements engineering approach that is specialized towards the domain of building automation systems is presented. This approach bases on the application of object-orientation to handle complexity, reuse to gain efficiency and product quality, and prototyping to enable validation early in the development process.

Proton-conducting graphene oxide electrolyte films with very high electric-double-layer capacitance are used as the gate dielectrics for oxide-based neuron transistor fabrication. Paired-pulse facilitation, dendritic integration, and orientation tuning are successfully emulated. Additionally, neuronal gain controls (arithmetic) are also experimentally demonstrated. The results provide a new-con...

We prove the Haagerup property for an infinite discrete group constructed using surgery on a Euclidean Tits building of type Ã2. The group Γ./ studied in this paper is the fundamental group of a 2-dimensional cell complex V./ defined by gluing 13 faces along their boundaries respecting orientation and labelling as follows:

This paper presents a Laser Additive Manufacturing Process Planning (LAMPP) being developed at the University of Missouri-Rolla. The off-line planning recognizes difficult-to-build features from an STL file, selects optimal part orientation and building directions based on the skeleton information of the object geometry, and optimizes the sub-process sequences for deposition and machining. Duri...

The point densities obtained by airborne laser scanner systems are increasing rapidly. When used for the 3D reconstruction of buildings the increasing amounts of points contain more and more information about the shape of buildings. Therefore methods for 3D reconstruction can be more data driven and need less specific object models. In this paper an approach is presented which is based on the d...

The application of computerised optimisation techniques to the design of low and netzero energy buildings would provide building designers with a powerful design tool. This paper presents such a tool that is being developed that links TRNSYS energy simulation with an optimisation program based on genetic algorithms. This early design stage optimisation tool optimises 17 parameters including bui...

This paper addresses the issue of image orientation for interactive tours. We consider situations where image sequences are captured in an urban site for which a virtual-model is already available. We present an approach that allows us to capture the orientation of these images using as control information building façades (instead of traditional points). Our approach allows us to orient image ...

Modern search engine result pages are becoming more and more heterogeneous. This is mostly achieved by adding a special vertical results on top of traditional “general web” results. These results usually come from special sources (verticals) and the choice of verticals is different for different queries. Vertical orientation is an important value that quantifies the user’s need of having result...