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An Ontology Based Context-Aware Architecture For Smart Campus Applications, Nicolas R. Verstaevel, Guillaume Garzone, Thierry Monteil, Nawal Guermouche, Johan Barthelemy, Pascal Perez Jan 2018

An Ontology Based Context-Aware Architecture For Smart Campus Applications, Nicolas R. Verstaevel, Guillaume Garzone, Thierry Monteil, Nawal Guermouche, Johan Barthelemy, Pascal Perez

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With an estimated number of more than 15 billion, objects, the management of architectures for the Internet of Things is a veritable challenge. The inherent mobility (in terms of devices and users) of the IoT means that the architecture has to be resilient to appearance and disappearance of devices. In this paper, we address the problem of autonomic management of IoT architecture by the means of ontologies. The problem we address is that given a dynamic system which is built upon a multitude of entities abstracted as services and characterized by their inputs and outputs, evolving targets that aim to …


The Geologic Turn: Architecture's New Alliance, Etienne Turpin Jan 2012

The Geologic Turn: Architecture's New Alliance, Etienne Turpin

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Recent research and practice in the fields of architecture, art, and philosophy suggest the increasing influence of geology with the design disciplines, visual arts, and theoretical humanities. The symposium A Geologic Turn: Architecture's New Alliance, curated by Etienne Turpin, Ph.D., as part of the Sanders Research Fellowship at the Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan, bring together researchers, scholars, and practitioners whose work is at the center of this fecund transdisciplinary trajectory. The objectives of the symposium are to encourage new productive connections among current scholarship and practice, and to expose this new transdisciplanary research to …


Putting The Architecting Back Into Software Architecture With Systems Thinking Agent-Based Modelling, Trevor Harrison, Allan Peter Campbell, Thong Nguyen Jan 2010

Putting The Architecting Back Into Software Architecture With Systems Thinking Agent-Based Modelling, Trevor Harrison, Allan Peter Campbell, Thong Nguyen

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This paper details exploratory research which treats architecting as a system. This human architecting system has a structure composed of decisions, interdependencies amongst decisions, decision making, decision makers and the decision-making environment. Agent-based modelling is used to model the architecting system, and simulation is used to visualise system behaviour over time. The goal is to map legitimate / optimal speed of architectural decision-making to an architecting system behaviour pattern. Knowing the appropriate behaviour pattern of early architecture evolution will provide a mechanism for fine-grained progress tracking of architectural design. Divergence from this behaviour pattern should provide early warning signs of …