Architecture

When discussing science fiction’s relationship with architecture, the usual practice is to look at the architecture “in” science fiction—in particular, the architecture in SF films (see Kuhn 75-143) since the spaces of literary SF present obvious difficulties as they have to be imagined. In this essay, that relationship will be reversed: I will instead discuss science fiction “in” architecture, mapping out a number of architectural movements and projects that can be viewed explicitly as science fiction. It is not my contention that the concept of science fiction should be applied to every aspect of architectural production; however, the domination of the architectural profession by conservative, even reactionary views of the built environment as simply an extension of late capitalism needs to be critiqued, and the possibilities afforded by an engagement with the discourse of science fiction is therefore much needed

Summary Report: Project Terra Research Meeting

Developing the conservation of earthen architectural Heritage -- as a science, a field of study, a professional practice, and a social endeavor -- is the overall objective of Project Terra

Microservices and Machine Learning Algorithms for Adaptive Green Buildings

In recent years, the use of services for Open Systems development has consolidated and strengthened. Advances in the Service Science and Engineering (SSE) community, promoted by the reinforcement of Web Services and Semantic Web technologies and the presence of new Cloud computing techniques, such as the proliferation of microservices solutions, have allowed software architects to experiment and develop new ways of building open and adaptable computer systems at runtime. Home automation, intelligent buildings, robotics, graphical user interfaces are some of the social atmosphere environments suitable in which to apply certain innovative trends. This paper presents a schema for the adaptation of Dynamic Computer Systems (DCS) using interdisciplinary techniques on model-driven engineering, service engineering and soft computing. The proposal manages an orchestrated microservices schema for adapting component-based software architectural systems at runtime. This schema has been developed as a three-layer adaptive transformation process that is supported on a rule-based decision-making service implemented by means of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. The experimental development was implemented in the Solar Energy Research Center (CIESOL) applying the proposed microservices schema for adapting home architectural atmosphere systems on Green Buildings

A Minimal Architecture for General Cognition

A minimalistic cognitive architecture called MANIC is presented. The MANIC architecture requires only three function approximating models, and one state machine. Even with so few major components, it is theoretically sufficient to achieve functional equivalence with all other cognitive architectures, and can be practically trained. Instead of seeking to transfer architectural inspiration from biology into artificial intelligence, MANIC seeks to minimize novelty and follow the most well-established constructs that have evolved within various sub-fields of data science. From this perspective, MANIC offers an alternate approach to a long-standing objective of artificial intelligence. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of the MANIC architecture.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, conference, Proceedings of the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Network

XSEDE Scientific Workflow Use Case L3 Architectural Response

This document is the Level 3 Architectural Response for the XSEDE Scientific Workflow Use Case.National Science Foundation OCI-1053575Ope

XSEDE Identity Managment Use Cases L3 Architectural Response

This document is the Level 3 Architectural Response for the XSEDE Identity Management Use Cases.National Science Foundation OCI-1053575Ope