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La arquitectura contemporánea ha perdido su identidad y cometido social, adaptándose al sistema capitalista. Este estudio explora si el Metaverso, como ciudad virtual, sigue una evolución similar. Hoy en día, las construcciones en el metaverso se enfocan en el beneficio económico, olvidando el bienestar social y su esencia de funcionalidad, estétic...
This study explores the application of material thermal conductivity in virtual architectural landscape environment design, with a focus on analyzing the importance of thermal characteristics in architectural design. To achieve this goal, the study reviewed relevant work and summarized the theoretical basis of material thermal conductivity, especia...
Recently, there has been a surge in the adoption of multi-orbital satellite networks for integrated service delivery. Operators are increasingly collaborating and constructing multi-layer network infrastructures to meet growing traffic demands. This paper introduces a novel service delivery model where infrastructure providers (InPs) lease out reso...
In this work, a container-based architecture for the integration of Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) end nodes—e.g., used to monitor industrial machines or mobile entities in specific environments—with Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks is proposed and its performance is investigated. To this end, we exploit the native service and resource...
The research examines the considerable possibilities of Metaverse as a social media platform for architecture. From this point of view, projects designed for the metaverse universe, derived from architectural websites, are being assessed within the scope of social media opportunities. Within this framework, evaluations are made under the criteria o...
In traditional cultural perceptions of gender, women are stereotyped as being more “emotional” than men. Although significant progress has been made in studying gender differences in emotional responses over the past few decades, there is still no consistent conclusion as to whether women are more emotional than men. In this study, we investigated...
The Internet of Things (IoT), namely, the set of intelligent devices equipped with sensors and actuators and capable of connecting to the Internet, has now become an integral part of the most competitive industries, as it enables optimization of production processes and reduction in operating costs and maintenance time, together with improving the...
Software-Defined Networking is today a mature technology, which is developed in many networks and also embedded in novel architectures like 5G and 6G. The SDN control centralization concept brings significant advantages for management and control in SDN together with the programmability of the data plane. SDN represents a paradigm shift towards agi...
With the fast growth of the Industrial Internet of Everything (IIoE), computing and telecommunication
industries all over the world are moving rapidly towards the IPv6 address architecture,
which supports virtualization architectures such as Network Function Virtualization (NFV). NFV
provides networking services like routing, security, storage, etc...
Background
Thailand’s HIV epidemic is heavily concentrated among men who have sex with men (MSM), and surveillance efforts are mostly based on case surveillance and local biobehavioral surveys.
Objective
We piloted Kai Noi, a web-based respondent-driven sampling (RDS) survey among MSM.
Methods
We developed an application coded in PHP that facilit...
In the current landscape of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning innovation, the imperative to aggregate data from varied sources and derive real-time insights is more pronounced than ever. This necessity gives rise to a Multi-Engine Data Virtualization Framework, a novel approach designed to refine data virtualization and management strate...
The preservation of historic buildings is a topic that has been explored and developed for many years with the aim of leaving a legacy for future generations. However, due to climate change, the risk of natural disasters that can result in the loss of housing, territory and historical heritage has increased exponentially. Therefore, traditional pre...
Este artigo apresenta e discute uma experiência de atelier de projeto colaborativo, desenvolvida de maneira majoritariamente virtual entre setembro e outubro de 2023. O International Virtual Architectural Design Studio - IVADS 2023, atividade associada ao 11º Seminário PROJETAR, reuniu mais de 60 participantes, entre professores, estudantes de grad...
O International Virtual Architectural Design Studio (IVADS) ocorreu em 2023, com o tema: “projetar virtualmente na preexistência” e propostas de usos para economia criativa. Esse artigo tem o objetivo de discutir a colaboração e a comunicação em processos projetuais desenvolvidos em ateliês virtuais com equipes interinstitucionais para a formação d...
O ateliê virtual denominado “International Virtual Architectural Design Studio - IVADS”, ocorrido durante o 11º Seminário Internacional Projetar, teve a intenção de desenvolver um concurso de ideias com foco em intervenções em preexistências de valor patrimonial seguindo os princípios da criação de espaços para a economia criativa. Este artigo desc...
This work introduces the framework for selecting architecture in 5G networks, considering various technological, performance, economic, and operational factors. With the emergence of 5G technology, the architecture selection process has become pivotal in meeting diverse requirements for ultra-high-speed connectivity, low latency, scalability, and d...
The global data center market is growing as more and more enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud computing services and applications. Data centers are evolving towards highly virtualized architectures where transformation to software defined network (SDN) based solutions provides benefits in terms of network programmability, automation, and fl...
The advent of computer technology has set off an information explosion that has changed civilization and indeed the entire workforce of today’s world. These changes presage a new context in which architecture schools must function. Traditionally, architectural education is basically between a group of persons; the teacher and the learner(s) in a de...
— To obtain the maximum solar radiation from sunrise
to sunset, a robust and dynamic tracking system is required for
solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. However, existing solar tracking
systems encounter several issues, such as additional cost and
power consumption, complexity in installation and integration,
susceptibility to environmental conditions,...
The widespread impact of COVID-19 greatly affects the deployment of higher education. In the Philippines, with the current physical restrictions, academic institutions have shifted to online learning. However, with limited technological resources compounded by one of the poorest internet connections in Southeast Asia, online learning is a constant...
3D shape generation techniques utilizing deep learning are increasing attention from both computer vision and architectural design. This survey focuses on investigating and comparing the current latest approaches to 3D object generation with deep generative models (DGMs), including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (V...
Windows in the built environment serve many important functions like ventilation, daylight, views, and a connection to the outdoor environment. They also benefit the health and wellbeing of building users by providing relief from monotony, boredom, claustrophobia, and stress recovery. The impacts of view type and view quality on building occupants...
Federated learning (FL) is the most popular distributed machine learning technique. However, implementation of FL over modern wireless networks faces key challenges caused by (i) dynamics of the network conditions, (ii) coexistence of multiple FL services/tasks in the system, and (iii) concurrent execution of FL services with other network services...
One of the most difficult parts of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) installations is security. The NFV environment is a large-scale, software-driven one with a variety of components. Network topologies and traffic flows are continuously and managed to change. Such complexity necessitates a comprehensive security framework that permits automati...
This paper proposes and implements a Network Function Virtualization (NFV) security architecture to provide automatic and efficient detection and mitigation against Web application malware. The mitigation is given by dynamically chaining a Virtual Security Function (VSF) to the data stream to block malicious exploitation traffic without affecting t...
Virtual architecture has been increasingly relied on to evaluate the health impacts of physical architecture. In this health research, exposure to virtual architecture has been used as a proxy for exposure to physical architecture. Despite the growing body of research on the health implications of physical architecture, there is a paucity of resear...
Several technological blocks are being developed to provide solutions to the requirements necessary for the implementation of industrial IoT. However, this is feasible with the resources offered by the Cloud, such as processing, applications and services. Despite this, there are negative aspects such as bandwidth, Internet service variability, late...
This research presents a dimensional analysis of the arcades of one of the most emblematic spaces of the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba: its central nave, located besides the mihrab in the ambitious extension carried out by Al-Hakam II. In order to accomplish this survey, a digital model was created from the point cloud obtained with a 3D laser scanne...
The state company Sedapal contains a wide variety of obsolete technological standards that do not allow the growth of the technological infrastructure due to the limited financing by the state for the operation, maintenance, and renovation of a new structure. Due to this, the objective of this research is to design a server virtualization plan. Vir...
The main innovations for next-generation cellular networks are in the Radio Access Network (RAN). Here, the base station functionalities are split between a Radio Unit (RU) and a Distributed Unit (DU), resulting in a virtualized architecture where functions can be centralized close to the core for performance improvement and function extendibility....
The narrative and worldbuilding of digital games are often constructed through their architectural design. This paper analyzes how virtual architecture can enable interactive digital storytelling through the case study of the game NaissanceE (Limasse Five 2014), which displays particularly imaginative architectural spaces within the panorama of dig...
This research will study the principles and foundations of virtual architecture and the age of information architecture. The research methodology is descriptive-analytical, and library resources are used. Studies showed that architectural design is universal in many small and large worlds. Understanding these worlds and controlling and applying the...
Network emulators are a key component for the implementation and evaluation of new applications. A network emulator designed for 5G networks should support the deployment of a complete 5G architecture (core and access network) as well as the deployment of edge data centers (edge computing) and the implementation of flexible SDN (Software Defined Ne...
Video games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds on a daily basis. This book investigates the architecture of video games, the buildings, roads and cities in which gamers play out their roles. Examining both the aesthetic aspects and symbolic roles of video game architecture as they rel...
Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City has found new life in videogames during the three decades since its demolition, taking on unstable and sometimes contradictory forms when reimagined through virtual architecture. At stake in these acts of memory are the historical discourses surrounding everyday life in Kowloon Walled City, its uncertain political an...
The built environment represents the stage surrounding our everyday life activities. To investigate how architectural design impacts individuals' affective states, we measured subjective judgments of perceived valence (pleasant and unpleasant) and arousal after the dynamic experience of a progressive change of macro visuospatial dimensions of virtu...
Despite the recent hype around the Metaverse, Social VR worlds remain in a 'mythical territory' of habitat only used by a small subset of computer users. The comparatively small number of virtual residents have been building 3D graphic representations and computer mediated communication networks for over a decade in the perspective of VR mass compu...
Visual perception of architectural spaces and human aesthetic experience in these spaces have recently received considerable interest in cognitive science. However, it has been difficult to construe a common understanding of aesthetic experience for architectural space, since different studies use different scales to measure aesthetic experiences....
This paper proposes a semiotic framework for the analysis of architecture in digital games that combines the theory of Umberto Eco of denotation and connotation in architecture with the concept of “anticipatory play” devised by Brian Upton. Virtual architecture is a central signifier in digital games, and its design heavily influences the gameplay...
Background. It is proposed to develop agent-based network metacomputer
systems and applications based on logical methods and related conceptual graphical
models, which allows combining imperative and declarative methods when designing the
functional architecture and software of a metacomputer. Formalized specifications for
creating agent-based netw...
In the Bramante’s church of Santa Maria Presso San Satiro, a successful integration between architecture and perspective solves the lack of space for the choir building. The surprising effectiveness of the trick that simulates a choir depth comparable to the transept’s length was a “Mirabile artificio”. Just because of the perceived room, historian...
Distribution of network functions virtualization (NFV) environment on multiple locations and datacenters is a hot topic in research and engineering communities. In this article, we are making analytical models to calculate the network packet sojourn time in three different scenarios: classical NFV environment where all NFV elements are on the same...
FPGAs can provide application-specific acceleration for computationally demanding tasks. However, they are rarely considered general-purpose platforms due to low productivity of software development and long reconfiguration time. These problems can be mitigated by implementing a coarser overlay atop the FPGA fabric. Combining this approach with par...
Three ingredients to the computer metaphor of mind and brain are discussed that render it unviable as an explanatory vehicle for the complex adaptive behavior of living systems. First, I present several anomalies in the empirical record of the neurosciences that expose profound problems with the assumption that the brain performs machine-like compu...
To keep supporting next-generation requirements, the radio access infrastructure will increasingly densify. Cell-free (CF) network architectures are emerging, combining dense deployments with extreme flexibility in allocating resources to users. In parallel, the Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) paradigm is transforming RAN toward an open, intelli...
Reservoir computing is a machine learning approach that enables us to use recurrent neural networks without involving the complexity of training algorithms and make hardware implementation possible. We present a novel photonic architecture of a reservoir computer that employs a nonlinear node and a resonator to implement a virtual recurrent neural...
O Projeto Locus da Esperança surge da participação no concurso de ideias para a realização de um módulo habitacional para contextos de catástrofe. Este concurso foi promovido pelo International Virtual Architectural Design Studio (IVADS) - PROJETANDO on-line 2021, organizado pelo Grupo Projetar/UFRN (Natal, Brasil) em parceria com a FAU/Lisboa na s...
Este artigo apresenta o trabalho resultante de um concurso de ideias para um módulo habitacional desenvolvido no contexto do International Virtual Architectural Design Studio - IVADS (Ateliê Virtual Internacional de Projeto de Arquitetura) - PROJETANDO ON-LINE 2021. O ateliê foi organizado pelo Grupo Projetar da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande d...
O texto apresenta a experiência didática multiinstitucional de um atelier totalmente virtual de projeto de arquitetura, promovido pelo Grupo Projetar/UFRN e o CIAUD/ULisboa, realizado na sequência do 10º Seminário Internacional PROJETAR Lisboa 2021. O International Virtual Architectural Design Studio - IVADS 2021 - teve como tema a concepção de um...
Today's mainstream virtualization systems comprise of two cooperative components: a kernel-resident driver that accesses virtualization hardware and a user-level helper process that provides VM management and I/O virtualization. However, this virtualization architecture has intrinsic issues in both security (a large attack surface) and performance....
Embedded systems are proceeding towards exploiting virtualization technology to have the benefits of Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) and General-Purpose Operating System (GPOS) in the same system. This combination provides both a timely and deterministic behavior and a general-purpose application codebase. There still exist concerns about the rea...
Lately, the most efficient solution for an organization and individual of internet based distributed computing platforms is cloud computing. Processing, storage, and data management are just a few of the useful services that end users can get from cloud computing. However, it raises a lot of issues with privacy and security which needs to be resolv...
To design architectural spaces that not only respond to the basic needs of users, but also seek their emotional well-being, it is necessary for the architecture students to have a special sensitivity and be aware of the different sensations that their designs should and can evoke. To achieve this competence without exploring real spaces, Immersive...
Resource prediction algorithms have been recently proposed in Network Function Virtualization architectures. A prediction-based resource allocation is characterized by higher operation costs due to: (i) Resource underestimate that leads to quality of service degradation; (ii) used cloud resource over allocation when a resource overestimate occurs....
Next generation Radio Access Networks (RANs) consider virtualized architectures in which base station functions are distributed in different logical nodes, connected through fronthaul (FH) links. To reduce the FH deployment costs and the required FH capacity, operators may install a single FH link shared among multiple cells and exploit key enablin...
Abstract: This research article draws attention to the sensory experience of architecture, whereby all different sensory aspects of the built environment work together to stimulate and communicate with the users’ senses. The resaerch disseminates a new term ‘SynaestheticScape’, which describes this experience. This term was introduced for the first...
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Nevertheless, iconic architecture assists in the identification of a place, city or precinct, so, structural, functional and aesthetic aspects of architecture, particularly those that represent unique features, attract tourists. Architecture, according to Aldo Rossi, "is at the same time a place, an event and a symbol". Apart from the construction...
Customers can get compute and storage services via a cloud computing environment, which is composed of configurable large-scale data form based. A cloud provider, often termed as a cloud infrastructure, is a corporation that controls and operates genuine cloud computing systems for the objective of giving solutions to other organisations. The barri...
The built environment represents the stage surrounding our everyday life activities. To investigate the impact that architectural features have on individuals’ affective states, we measured their judgments of perceived valence (pleasant and unpleasant) and arousal after the dynamic experience of a progressive change of the environment within virtua...
The strong computing power of Cloud computing enables rapid processing of mass data. Hadoop, the most extensively-distributed architecture among Cloud-computing platforms, uses the MapReduce programming model in a server cluster to separate the applications into many small parts in order to conduct arithmetic processing of big data. Virtualization...
Immersive technologies, such as VR, offer first-person experiences using depth perception and spatial awareness that elucidate a sense of space impossible with traditional visualization techniques. This paper looks beyond the visual aspects and towards understanding the experiential aspects of two popular uses of VR in 3D architectural visualizatio...
The increasing challenges in improving the educational system such as innovation,are gaining much greater attention in the media in classrooms. Technological innovations have a significant potential to improve the learning and teaching process.The standard online learning method cannot effectively recommend the required learning content, which lead...
A traditional big data network is a wireless multimedia network, as multiple video/audio streaming account for 70 percent of mobile traffic and the fifth generation wireless networks are projected to rise 500 times. However, it does raise various new and transparent challenges for multimedia big data communication over 5G wireless systems because m...
The covid-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses of the various institutions at global, national and institutional levels. There is therefore the need to look at the challenges affecting the spheres of the architecture education at both formal and informal levels. The paper x-rays the challenges of virtual architectural education training so as to prep...
Confinement forced the usual body-presence of academic learning to migrate to the digital environment. The speed we had to implement and adopt those teaching systems did not give us time to reflect on their implications. This text starts that discussion, analyzing the architectures of virtual architecture education.
With the advent of 5G verticals and the Internet of Things paradigm, Edge Computing has emerged as the most dominant service delivery architecture, placing augmented computing resources in the proximity of end users. The resource orchestration of edge clouds relies on the concept of network slicing, which provides logically isolated computing and n...
The paper presents the approach to a virtual architecture system profiling within a QEMU emulator. The aim of the research is to demonstrate virtual architecture MIPS64 Release 6 profiling within QEMU emulator taking as an example implementation of the H.264 video codec element, namely, a deblocking filter. The described approach is characterized b...
A model of a three-phase electronic converter of electric energy for an autonomous power supply system has been studied. The objective is measuring the percentage of the higher harmonics in the output of the three-phase inverter voltage and the effect of adding a passive selective Notch filters. Their inclusion in the output circuit creates a model...
The article underlines the connection between the flâneur, as described in Benjamin's studies, and the emblematic places of the modern consumer society centered on the symbolic value of the merchandise. First of all, the philosophical meaning of the word "phantasmagoria" will be clarified, analyzing its origin and use, particularly with reference t...
With the evolution of cloud technology, the number of user applications is increasing, and computational workloads are becoming increasingly diverse and unpredictable. However, cloud data centers still exhibit a low I/O performance because of the scheduling policies employed, which are based on the degree of physical CPU (pCPU) occupancy. Notably,...
The high time needed to reconfigure cloud resources in Network Function Virtualization network environments has led to the proposal of solutions in which a prediction based-resource allocation is performed. All of them are based on traffic or needed resource prediction with the minimization of symmetric loss functions like Mean Squared Error. When...
At present, ArchDaily.com is the most visited virtual architecture platform in the world. Aware of the importance acquired in the architectural practice, the site declares itself to be the main source from which architects feed on tools, information and inspiration to develop their projects. However, it is clear that its importance is not limited t...
Among the activities planned for the MUSAS Project, the digital reconstruction of the underwater sites constitutes a particular challenge, requiring strong cooperation between archaeologists and technicians. The case of the Villa dei Pisoni in Baiae, one of the richest in the Phlaegrean territory, is particularly interesting: the architectural rema...