Many branches of engineering, mathematics, and sciences, have relied on benchmark problems as a standard means to compare different solution techniques. Since 1996, the ASCE Structural Control and Monitoring Committee and Task Group on Benchmark Problems, the U.S. Panel on structural control, and IASCM have developed a series of benchmark control problems that offer a set of carefully modeled r...

Focuses on the benchmark control problems for seismically excited nonlinear buildings defined by Ohtori et al. (2000). This benchmark study focuses on three typical steel structures, 3-, 9and 20-storey buildings designed for the SAC project for Los Angeles in the California region. The first stage of applying the fuzzy controller to this benchmark study for the 3-storey building is reported. Th...

Prepared domain specific datasets plays an important role to supervised learning approaches. In this article a new sentence dataset for software qualityin-use is proposed. Three experts were chosen to annotate the data using a proposed annotation scheme. Then the data were reconciled in a (no match eliminate) process to reduce bias. The Kappa, statistics revealed an acceptable level of agreemen...

In this paper, a ‘‘third generation’’ benchmark problem that focuses on the control of wind excited response of a tall building, using the Model Predictive Control ~MPC! scheme, is presented. A 76 story, 306 m tall concrete office tower proposed for the city of Melbourne, Australia, is being used to demonstrate the effectiveness of MPC. The MPC scheme is based on an explicit use of a prediction...

Task-based programming is becoming the state-of-the-art method of choice for extracting the desired performance from multi-core chips. It expresses a program in terms of lightweight logical tasks rather than heavyweight threads. Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) is a task-based parallel programming paradigm for multi-core processors. The performance gain of this paradigm depends to a great ...

The most common method of benchmarking energy use in buildings is to compare the energy use of the building under consideration with the energy use of a population of like buildings. Usually there is some empirical compensation for features and factors that affect energy use such as the size of the building and the weather conditions. Two fundamental limitations of this approach are: 1) only si...