GENE_ARCH is an evolution-based Generative Design System that uses adaptation to shape energy-efficient and sustainable architectural solutions. The system applies goal-oriented design, combining a Genetic Algorithm (GA) as the search engine, with DOE2.1E building simulation software as the evaluation module. The GA can work either as a standard GA or as a Pareto GA, for multicriteria optimizat...

The present paper will investigate the specific elements of architectural design based on Islamic beliefs, by taking Iranian Architectural values and vernacular climate design methods into consideration. This research will assess the spirit of experimental elements, created by the inhabitants, according to recent scientific findings. The main concentration will be on the physical design of rura...

The Outcome Document of the recent international diplomatic conference on sustainable development, Rio+20, portrays it as a multi-stakeholder process aimed at increasing the wellbeing of present and future generations in a dynamic, inclusive, equitable, safe, lasting, and environmentally balanced fashion, emphasizing that it should lead to poverty eradication, social development, the protection...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has brought about first and foremost by the nonstop changing businesses. New products, new customers, new partners, new counterparts, and ambitious business process management implay ongoing software modifications. Point-to-point integration of enterprise resource planning systems, legacy systems and other enterprise applications cause out of control costs as...

Deploying Martin Heidegger’s thinking on technology, this paper attempts to show an internal contradiction inherent in our technologically oriented approach to sustainable design. Heidegger’s thinking on technology, which has had an influence both on the ecological movement and on architecture, situates the problematic shift toward modern technology at the beginning of the enlightenment with th...

We propose a reorientation of the way the concept of sustainability is dealt with in relation to information systems, positioning the processing of knowledge at the centre of the concept. The concept of Sustainability of Knowledge (SoK), referring to processes that govern knowledge is employed to define Sustainable Information Systems (SIS). Three knowledge aspects are found to be relevant for ...

This paper looks to address the grand challenge of integrating construction materials engineering research within a multi-scale, inter-disciplinary research and management framework for sustainable concrete infrastructure. The ultimate goal is to drive sustainability-focused innovation and adoption cycles in the broader architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) industry. Specifically, a pro...

Recently, the business of software architecture has become one of technology hypes and technology geeks. An architecture often defines itself by the primary technology it is built upon. Developers are given a J2EE book and then let loose. And then the project fails, although “we used an industry standard” ... How come? The craft of defining an architecture – independent of buzzwords – has gone ...