This paper reports an observation of communication in collaborative design by examining several historical cases of building design projects. It will present three cases of teamwork in architectural modelling. Each case provides a collection of drawings or illustrations that depict the artefacts being designed and constructed. Looking at the cases from the design as modelling perspective, two i...

In this paper, we examine the demand for fresh water of China in 2025 from the complex system modeling perspective and we develop an efficient, economical and practical water strategy to meet the demand for fresh water in 2025.Different from previous research, this study focus on studying several factors that can influence the demand for fresh water, and their interplay within the complex large...

The "perspective-plane" problem proposed in this paper is similar to the "perspective-n-point (PnP)" or "perspective-n-line (PnL)" problems, yet with broader applications and potentials, since planar scenes are more widely available than control points or lines in practice. We address this problem in the Bayesian framework and propose the "Bayesian perspective-plane (BPP)" algorithm, which can ...

The paper describes a multi-perspective approach to measuring dynamics of end-user encounters with innovative artefacts and services which fall into the class broadly described as pervasive Information Systems and which includes m-commerce systems and devices. This working framework is based on the “Model of User Acceptability and Product Uptake” which, in turn, is drawn from the “Price of Conv...

In this paper, we detail specifications of a Visualization On-Demand (VizOD) server. We show that packaging information visualization processes into services reachable over a network benefits both users and programmers, by reducing development cycles. We implemented a prototype based on our architecture, resulting in an innovative way to visually explore large movie database. We discuss early r...