Technical durability and aesthetical longevity of building skins are among the fundamental demands sustainable architecture in terms fabric’s physical changes due to deterioration. This concept paper presents a design intended fill existing gap related limited buildings non-existing methods for its effective extension. The study concentrates on anticipation assimilation disintegration processes...

I show that Swan’s (1970) independence result requires a multiplicative interaction between durability and all other quality attributes. Because there is no compelling argument for a multiplicativity in quality, monopolists tend to distort durability, even with constant marginal costs. Distortions in durability and other quality aspects are aligned exactly when the marginal cost of quality do n...

This paper describes the design and implementation of Yat. Yat is a hypervisor-based framework that supports testing of applications that use Persistent Memory (PM)—byte-addressable, non-volatile memory attached directly to the memory controller. PM has implications on both system architecture and software. The PM architecture extends the memory ordering model to add software-visible support fo...

In this paper, we propose a secure, distributed and scaleable infrastructure for a lifelong personal medical record system. We leverage on existing and widely available technologies, like the Web and public-key cryptography, to define an architecture that allows patients to exercise full control over their medical data. This is done without compromising patients' privacy and the ability of othe...

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a multimedia information system integrating hypermedia, information retrieval, and DBMS technologies. We browse the information space through hypermedia link navigation and also use ad hoc queries for direct retrieval of information from the database. Both the hypermedia and the information retrieval systems are integrated into a datab...

Software visualization tools face many challenges in terms of their implementation, including scalability, usability, adaptability, and durability. Such tools, like many other research tools, tend to have a short life cycle and are vulnerable to software evolution processes because of the complex problem domain and the constantly changing requirements which are dictated by research goals. In th...

the use of various slags as by-products of steel industry is well established in civil engineering applications. however, the use of bos slag in the area of soil stabilization has not been fully researched and developed despite having similar chemical composition and mineralogy to that of portland cement. this paper reports on efforts to extend the use of bos slag to soil stabilization by deter...

Cultural heritage protection demands targeted restoration actions in order to increase monuments’ lifetime. Such actions require the use of conservation materials (e.g., consolidation materials), which can increase the durability of historic materials. However, the performance of each material on the restoration phase significantly differs with respect to its type, chemical properties and the b...

this study evaluates the lifelikeness layers of boroujerdi’s house in kashan as a case study to analyze the houses of islamic period, especially qajar era. why traditional iranian architecture was considered as sustainable architecture? what are the elements included in the traditional architecture to take the most advantage of the least facilities? what elements does the modern architecture la...