High initial costs hinder innovative technologies for building envelopes. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) should consider energy savings to show relevant economic benefits and potential reduce consumption CO2 emissions. Cost (LCC) Energy (LCE) focus on investment, operation, maintenance, dismantling, disposal, and/or recycling the building. This study compares LCC LCE analysis of Water Flow Glazing...

In stereovision, the use of frequency domain methods raises the problems of the choice of a family of filters and a strategy to use it. This paper compares three families : Gabor filters, finite prolate spheroidal sequences and Weng's Windowed Fourier of Gaussian (WFG). Then a comparison between two strategies is done : an image-based choice of filters and the use of a "complete" subset of filt...

In buildings with ambitious energy goals or limited roof areas for on-site generation, building-integrated solar thermal collectors are one of the main strategies to provide renewable built environment. addition, designing large glazing facades is a challenge achieving goal zero-energy due load produced by standard double triple glazing. This research shows that Water Flow Glazing (WFG) can pro...

Myclobutanil is a systemic fungicide belonging to the triazole group, which frequently detected in environmental samples. Triticonazole, also fungicide, controls soil and seed-borne diseases it mainly used as seed-coating pesticide. Both myclobutanil triticonazole are considered persistent pollutants environment, raising concerns about their fate ecotoxicity potential. The purpose of present st...

Deadlock detection in distributed asynchronous systems such as distributed database systems, computer networks, massively parallel systems etc. is peculiarly subtle and complex. This is because asynchronous systems are characterized by the lack of global memory and a common physical clock, as well as by the absence of known bounds on relative processor speeds and transmission delays. These diff...

A 33-year-old man seeking refractive surgery presented with refractive error of -1.75 -4.0×20° in the right and -0.75 -2.5×170° in his left eye in January 2009; best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (BSCVA) was 20/25+ and 20/20respectively. All ocular examinations were unremarkable and family history for keratoconus was negative. He had previously obtained consultation for refractive surgery i...

Most experimental studies initialize the population of evolutionary algorithms with random genotypes. In practice, however, optimizers are typically seeded with good candidate solutions either previously known or created according to some problem-specific method. This seeding has been studied extensively for single-objective problems. For multi-objective problems, however, very little literatur...

We propose a new approach to the computation of the hypervolume indicator, based on partitioning the dominated region into a set of axis-parallel hyperrectangles or boxes. We present a nonincremental algorithm and an incremental algorithm, which allows insertions of points, whose time complexities are O(nb p−1 2 c+1) and O(nb p 2 c+1), respectively. While the theoretical complexity of such a me...

This study introduces the Borg multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) for many-objective, multimodal optimization. The Borg MOEA combines ε-dominance, a measure of convergence speed named ε-progress, randomized restarts, and auto-adaptive multioperator recombination into a unified optimization framework. A comparative study on 33 instances of 18 test problems from the DTLZ, WFG, and CEC ...