In the second of fotur articles, the authors discuss the /estimatioin" approach to linterpreting stuidy results. Whereas, in hypothesis testing, study restIlts lead the reader to reject or accept a null hypothesis, in estimationi the reader can assess whether a result is strong or weak, definitive or not. A confidence interval, based on the observed result and the size of the samnple, is calcUl...

It is a common practice to build large-scale software systems as a combination of smaller components. However, it is quite costly if software developers need to design and develop the components from scratch for each software system. It is quite desirable that they build highly generalized components that can be used in many systems. However, it is not enough to prepare many reusable components...

in this paper, acceptance criteria of steel building code, comprehensive and quick evaluation procedures for x-bracing, are compared to each other parametrically and numerically. for this purpose, it is assumed first that the sample building is designed to meet steel building code and then by introducing transform parameters and using stress ratio of the designed components, acceptance of the d...

In this paper, the new approach to reviving of ancient buildings is described. Photo realistic visualization is performed to create exact visual reproduction of the building. To make the virtual environment complete a 3D acoustical computer simulation is also performed. The results of acoustic simulation can be used to make an auralization of the building. This approach has been carried out on ...

Building performance simulation is being increasingly deployed beyond the building design phase to support efficient building operation. Specifically, the predictive feature of the simulation-assisted building systems control strategy provides distinct advantages in view of building systems with high latency and inertia. Such advantages can be exploited only if model predictions can be relied u...

The presented paper is focused on the building of personalized text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis for people who are losing their voices due to fatal diseases. The special conditions of this issue make the process different from preparing professional synthetic voices for commercial TTS systems and make it also more difficult. The whole process is described in this paper and the first results of th...

Researches have shown that most effort of today’s software development is maintenance and evolution. Developers often use integrated development environments, debuggers, and tools for code search, testing, and program understanding to reduce the tedious tasks. One way to make software development more efficient is to make the program more readable. There have been many approaches proposed and d...