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What You Don’T See, Brent Sturlaugson
What You Don’T See, Brent Sturlaugson
Architecture Faculty Publications
Follow the supply chains of architecture and you’ll find not just product manufacturers but also environmental polluters and elusive networks of financial power and political influence.
An Ontology Based Context-Aware Architecture For Smart Campus Applications, Nicolas R. Verstaevel, Guillaume Garzone, Thierry Monteil, Nawal Guermouche, Johan Barthelemy, Pascal Perez
An Ontology Based Context-Aware Architecture For Smart Campus Applications, Nicolas R. Verstaevel, Guillaume Garzone, Thierry Monteil, Nawal Guermouche, Johan Barthelemy, Pascal Perez
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
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 …
Collaborative Strategies For Sea Level Rise Adaptation In Hampton Roads, Virginia, Carol Considine, Emily Steinhilber
Collaborative Strategies For Sea Level Rise Adaptation In Hampton Roads, Virginia, Carol Considine, Emily Steinhilber
Engineering Technology Faculty Publications
[Introduction] The Hampton Roads region is located in southeastern Virginia where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. The region includes seventeen municipal governments and has a large federal government presence with 26 federal agencies represented (See Figure 1). The region has a population that exceeds 1.7 million and is home to the deepest water harbor on the U.S. East Coast. Hampton Roads' economy is dependent on the local waterways and houses the world's largest naval facility, the sixth largest containerized cargo complex and supports a thriving shipbuilding and repair industry as well as a tourism industry. However, the region's …