TRADITIONALLY, SOFTWARE architects were entrusted with making “decisions that are costly to change.”1 Because these decisions often had to be made early in the project, architects drew on their experience and ability to abstract to get them right. Repeated project cost and timeline overruns have demonstrated, though, that trying to plan all features and decide the system structure early in a pr...

The year 2020 has been an exceptional one worldwide; it imposed new norms on the ways of living and business as usual practices. With outbreak COVID-19 in December 2019, a sudden shift was witnessed many sectors such education, transportation, tourism, construction, health business. Health safety measures enforced either abandonment some buildings schools, theaters, malls, other public building...

In this paper, we are discussing the effect of the use of magnetic compasses on the orientation of ancient Chinese architectonical complexes. As Czech researchers proposed in 2011, assuming these complexes ideally oriented by the ancient architects along north-south direction, in the case that the surveys were made by means of magnetic compasses, we can find the axes of the complexes deviating ...