LDE HERITAGE CONFERENCE on Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals:

Heritage—natural and cultural, material and immaterial—plays a key role in the development of sustainable cities and communities. Goal 11, target 4, of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasizes the relation between heritage and sustainability. The International LDE Heritage conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development Goals, which took place from 26 to 28 November 2019 at TU Delft in the Netherlands, examined the theories, methodologies, and practices of heritage and SDGs. It asked: How is heritage produced and defined? By whom and in what contexts? What are the conceptions of sustainability, and in what ways are these situational and contextual? How can theoretical findings on heritage and SDGs engage with heritage practice? The conference built on the multidisciplinary expertise of academics in the humanities, social, and spatial sciences, notably the interdisciplinary crossover research program, Design & History, the new theme of Heritage Futures at TU Delft, on active collaboration within the LDE Center for Global Heritage and Development (CGHD), and on heritage-related research conducted by the three partner universities Leiden, Delft and Erasmus in Rotterdam by further associated partners in the consortium and internationally. At TU Delft the research programs bring together different departments and disciplines: architecture, urbanism, history, landscape architecture, real estate and management, and engineering. They aim to further an interdisciplinary understanding of the transformation of the built environment and, through the consistent use of the past, to enable buildings, cities, and landscapes to become more sustainable, resource-efficient, resilient, safe, and inclusive. Researchers from Leiden University approach heritage from a broad variety of disciplinary perspectives, such as archaeology, museum studies, cultural anthropology, and area studies. Heritage research at Leiden University explores processes of heritage creation, and the appreciation and evaluation of material and immaterial heritage, to gain new insights into the cultural constitution of societies. Creating, acknowledging, and contesting heritage tends to be politically sensitive as it involves assertions and redefinitions of memory and identity. History and social studies scholars from Erasmus University in Rotterdam add further insights into heritage practice. This conference created a setting where academics and heritage practitioners could explore these questions from specific perspectives. It brought together 120 academics and practitioners keen to develop their understanding of and their input into heritage conservation, and to increase their contributions towards the development of sustainable cities and communities. The three-day conference combined a variety of formats. Participants engaged in nine academic sessions with peer-reviewed papers, eight roundtables on strategic goals, and six workshops spent applying specific methods and tools

Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites III

The conservation of monuments and historic sites is one of the most challenging problems facing modern civilization. It involves, in inextricable patterns, factors belonging to different fields (cultural, humanistic, social, technical, economical, administrative) and the requirements of safety and use appear to be (or often are) in conflict with the respect of the integrity of the monuments. The complexity of the topic is such that a shared framework of reference is still lacking among art historians, architects, structural and geotechnical engineers. The complexity of the subject is such that a shared frame of reference is still lacking among art historians, architects, architectural and geotechnical engineers. And while there are exemplary cases of an integral approach to each building element with its static and architectural function, as a material witness to the culture and construction techniques of the original historical period, there are still examples of uncritical reliance on modern technology leading to the substitution from earlier structures to new ones, preserving only the iconic look of the original monument. Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites III collects the contributions to the eponymous 3rd International ISSMGE TC301 Symposium (Naples, Italy, 22-24 June 2022). The papers cover a wide range of topics, which include: 　 - Principles of conservation, maintenance strategies, case histories - The knowledge: investigations and monitoring - Seismic risk, site effects, soil structure interaction - Effects of urban development and tunnelling on built heritage - Preservation of diffuse heritage: soil instability, subsidence, environmental damages The present volume aims at geotechnical engineers and academics involved in the preservation of monuments and historic sites worldwide

Gaze-Based Human-Robot Interaction by the Brunswick Model

We present a new paradigm for human-robot interaction based on social signal processing, and in particular on the Brunswick model. Originally, the Brunswick model copes with face-to-face dyadic interaction, assuming that the interactants are communicating through a continuous exchange of non verbal social signals, in addition to the spoken messages. Social signals have to be interpreted, thanks to a proper recognition phase that considers visual and audio information. The Brunswick model allows to quantitatively evaluate the quality of the interaction using statistical tools which measure how effective is the recognition phase. In this paper we cast this theory when one of the interactants is a robot; in this case, the recognition phase performed by the robot and the human have to be revised w.r.t. the original model. The model is applied to Berrick, a recent open-source low-cost robotic head platform, where the gazing is the social signal to be considered

WSN based sensing model for smart crowd movement with identification: a conceptual model

With the advancement of IT and increase in world population rate, Crowd Management (CM) has become a subject undergoing intense study among researchers. Technology provides fast and easily available means of transport and, up-to-date information access to the people that causes crowd at public places. This imposes a big challenge for crowd safety and security at public places such as airports, railway stations and check points. For example, the crowd of pilgrims during Hajj and Ummrah while crossing the borders of Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To minimize the risk of such crowd safety and security identification and verification of people is necessary which causes unwanted increment in processing time. It is observed that managing crowd during specific time period (Hajj and Ummrah) with identification and verification is a challenge. At present, many advanced technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) are being used to solve the crowed management problem with minimal processing time. In this paper, we have presented a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) based conceptual model for smart crowd movement with minimal processing time for people identification. This handles the crowd by forming groups and provides proactive support to handle them in organized manner. As a result, crowd can be managed to move safely from one place to another with group identification. The group identification minimizes the processing time and move the crowd in smart way

Safety and Reliability - Safe Societies in a Changing World

The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management - mathematical methods in reliability and safety - risk assessment - risk management - system reliability - uncertainty analysis - digitalization and big data - prognostics and system health management - occupational safety - accident and incident modeling - maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis - dynamic risk and barrier management - organizational factors and safety culture - human factors and human reliability - resilience engineering - structural reliability - natural hazards - security - economic analysis in risk managemen

Parallel Patterns for Adaptive Data Stream Processing

In recent years our ability to produce information has been growing steadily, driven by an ever increasing computing power, communication rates, hardware and software sensors diffusion. This data is often available in the form of continuous streams and the ability to gather and analyze it to extract insights and detect patterns is a valuable opportunity for many businesses and scientific applications. The topic of Data Stream Processing (DaSP) is a recent and highly active research area dealing with the processing of this streaming data. The development of DaSP applications poses several challenges, from efficient algorithms for the computation to programming and runtime systems to support their execution. In this thesis two main problems will be tackled: * need for high performance: high throughput and low latency are critical requirements for DaSP problems. Applications necessitate taking advantage of parallel hardware and distributed systems, such as multi/manycores or cluster of multicores, in an effective way; * dynamicity: due to their long running nature (24hr/7d), DaSP applications are affected by highly variable arrival rates and changes in their workload characteristics. Adaptivity is a fundamental feature in this context: applications must be able to autonomously scale the used resources to accommodate dynamic requirements and workload while maintaining the desired Quality of Service (QoS) in a cost-effective manner. In the current approaches to the development of DaSP applications are still missing efficient exploitation of intra-operator parallelism as well as adaptations strategies with well known properties of stability, QoS assurance and cost awareness. These are the gaps that this research work tries to fill, resorting to well know approaches such as Structured Parallel Programming and Control Theoretic models. The dissertation runs along these two directions. The first part deals with intra-operator parallelism. A DaSP application can be naturally expressed as a set of operators (i.e. intermediate computations) that cooperate to reach a common goal. If QoS requirements are not met by the current implementation, bottleneck operators must be internally parallelized. We will study recurrent computations in window based stateful operators and propose patterns for their parallel implementation. Windowed operators are the most representative class of stateful data stream operators. Here computations are applied on the most recent received data. Windows are dynamic data structures: they evolve over time in terms of content and, possibly, size. Therefore, with respect to traditional patterns, the DaSP domain requires proper specializations and enhanced features concerning data distribution and management policies for different windowing methods. A structured approach to the problem will reduce the effort and complexity of parallel programming. In addition, it simplifies the reasoning about the performance properties of a parallel solution (e.g. throughput and latency). The proposed patterns exhibit different properties in terms of applicability and profitability that will be discussed and experimentally evaluated. The second part of the thesis is devoted to the proposal and study of predictive strategies and reconfiguration mechanisms for autonomic DaSP operators. Reconfiguration activities can be implemented in a transparent way to the application programmer thanks to the exploitation of parallel paradigms with well known structures. Furthermore, adaptation strategies may take advantage of the QoS predictability of the used parallel solution. Autonomous operators will be driven by means of a Model Predictive Control approach, with the intent of giving QoS assurances in terms of throughput or latency in a resource-aware manner. An experimental section will show the effectiveness of the proposed approach in terms of execution costs reduction as well as the stability degree of a system reconfiguration. The experiments will target shared and distributed memory architectures