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Cooperative Proxy Architectural Design for Multiple Description Video Streaming (다중 디스크립션 비디오 스트리밍을 위한 협업 프록시 구조 설계)

  • Lee, Seung-Eun;Han, Jong-Wook;Han, Dong-Yun;Bak, Yu-Hyeon;Kim, Kyong-Sok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2006.10d
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    • pp.631-636
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    • 2006
  • 최근 많은 사용자들이 인터넷 상에서 비디오나 오디오 같은 규모가 큰 미디어 콘텐츠(Media contents)의 정보 전달을 효율적으로 제공 받기를 원하고 있다. 미디어 콘텐츠를 스트리밍 하는 것은 인터넷 트래픽의 아주 큰 부분을 차지하기 때문에, 우리는 클러스터형 협업 프록시를 기반으로 한 다중 디스크립션 비디오 스트리밍 구조를 제안하여 네트워크와 서버의 부하를 클러스터된 일반 프록시들에게 균등하게 분산 시킨다. MDC(Multiple Description Coding)[1]를 적용하여 캐싱 공간(Caching space)을 효율적으로 사용하며 다중 세션을 통해 디스크립션을 서비스함으로써 스트리밍 서비스 중인 프록시 또는 전체 데이터를 저장하고 하는 서버에 문제가 생기더라도 끊어지지 않는 계속적인 서비스가 가능하다. 또한 일반 프록시들의 정보를 관리하는 디스패처가 사용자의 환경에 따라 적응적인 서비스를 가능하게 한다.

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A Study on the Piercing Column of Terunobu Fujimori Architecture (후지모리 테루노부 건축의 돌출기둥에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyon-Sob
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2012
  • This paper aimed at investigating into the origin and meaning of the Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori's 'piercing column', and drew a conclusion as follows. First, the piercing column that made its first appearance in his architect debut work Jinchokan Moriya Historical Museum (1991) was conceived unexpectedly from pencil lines on a sketch that went through over the building's roof. And the tree-like natural treatment of the column's surface was influenced by Takamasa Yoshizaka's description of a Mongolian mud-house. Second, most of piercing columns in his later works have nothing to do with a structural role as in Jinchokan, but were designed for a visual effect and as a symbolic gesture. Again, they allude to a tree in nature through a roughly peeling treatment of the surface. Third, considering his ideas in History of Humankind and Architecture (2005), his column could be related to a universal origin of architecture and a symbol of the sun-god faith, and in particular to independent columns of Japanese Shito shrines, such as 'Onbashira' in Suwa and 'Iwanebashira' in Izumo. That is to say, the Fujimori column is a medium that implies the animistic nature-faith of Japan. Nevertheless, Fujimori's naturalism hints at a disquieting quality through an intentional artificiality and a provocative conflict between structure and finish of a building, which might be one aspect of the modern condition, 'uncanny'.

Interpretation of House Form with Dweller's Life, on the U-type Folk Housing of Minimum Courtyard in Kangwha Island (거주자의 문화를 통해 본 강화도 최소중정형 튼입구자집($\sqcap$형 평면)의 해석)

  • Lee, Hee-Bong;Kwon, Oh-Kyong
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.13 no.4 s.40
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    • pp.107-124
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study is to understand underlying principle to form the U-type folk house in the northwestern part of Kangwha Island by viewpoint of inner residents. It is found that many factors other than climate are coincidentally affecting the shape of house; Resident's fixed thought like following geomancer' suggestion, seeking fortune, and locating house enclosed low site; Economic reason of uniting one house with two buildings and making small type by used timber from dismantled house; Centralizing life with small courtyard by reason of family type change from extended to nuclear; Influence from L or ㅁ type of upper class building at Seoul area. The method is thick description of culture with ethnographic method from cognitive anthropology: Observing the form and restoring residents' life with open-ended deep interview.

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ANALYZING DYNAMIC FAULT TREES DERIVED FROM MODEL-BASED SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES

  • Dehlinger, Josh;Dugan, Joanne Bechta
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.40 no.5
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    • pp.365-374
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    • 2008
  • Dependability-critical systems, such as digital instrumentation and control systems in nuclear power plants, necessitate engineering techniques and tools to provide assurances of their safety and reliability. Determining system reliability at the architectural design phase is important since it may guide design decisions and provide crucial information for trade-off analysis and estimating system cost. Despite this, reliability and system engineering remain separate disciplines and engineering processes by which the dependability analysis results may not represent the designed system. In this article we provide an overview and application of our approach to build architecture-based, dynamic system models for dependability-critical systems and then automatically generate dynamic fault trees (DFT) for comprehensive, tool-supported reliability analysis. Specifically, we use the Architectural Analysis and Design Language (AADL) to model the structural, behavioral and failure aspects of the system in a composite architecture model. From the AADL model, we seek to derive the DFT(s) and use Galileo's automated reliability analyses to estimate system reliability. This approach alleviates the dependability engineering - systems engineering knowledge expertise gap, integrates the dependability and system engineering design and development processes and enables a more formal, automated and consistent DFT construction. We illustrate this work using an example based on a dynamic digital feed-water control system for a nuclear reactor.

Paljak Roofs and Modern Joseon Architecture in North Korea: Selection and Exclusion (팔작지붕과 북한의 현대 조선식 건축: 선택과 배제)

  • Park, Dongmin
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.65-76
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    • 2019
  • Modern Joseon Architecture is North Korea's unique building style that interprets Korean traditional architecture in a modern way, and its most distinctive design feature is the Paljak roof that decorates the upper part of the buildings. This paper argues that continuous attempts at characterizing the nature of traditional Korean architecture in the late 1950s and early 1960s developed the theoretical rationale for the exclusive use of the Paljak roof in Modern Joseon Architecture. It also argues that the construction of the Pyongyang Grand Theater and the Okryu Restaurant during this period became a decisive moment for the formalization of the Paljak roof. The double roof rafters and gables and the "cheerful yet solemn" roofline were considered as main characteristic features of the Korean roof and the Paljak roof perfectly fits this description. Particularly, in North Korean society where Kim Il Sung became idolized as an impersonalized deity, an anecdote in which Kim Il Sung fixed a prominent gabled roof in the Pyongyang Grand Theater into a Paljak roof has allowed for the roof to gain an exclusive status. Hence, almost all Modern Joseon Architecture since the 1960s accepted the Paljak roof's monopoly position, rather than experimenting with other traditional roof types.

Proposal for Improvement on the Task of Construction Project Management Service(CM) for the Customized Service Project of the Public Procurement Service (조달청 맞춤형서비스 사업에 대한 '감독 권한대행 등 건설사업관리용역(CM)' 과업내용 개선방향)

  • Lee, Jong-Tae;Yun, Hyun-Do
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.3-11
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    • 2021
  • The construction project manager must clearly carry out the activities of each construction stage specified in the 'Task Description'. In this study, 'design change' and 'completion process' were classified as core tasks in consideration of the frequency and importance of tasks. And, by analyzing the actual construction project, the task contents for the core work were standardized. This laid the foundation for the ordering office, construction project management technicians, and builders to clearly understand the business areas of construction project management and fulfill their responsibilities for their respective tasks.

The Evolution and Structural Characteristics of Scaffolding Constructions in Macao Area from Historical Documents and Visual Materials (문헌 및 도상(圖像) 사료를 통해 본 마카오 '붕식(棚式)' 건축의 연원(淵源)과 구조 형식)

  • Hong, Shu-ying;Han, Dong-Soo
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.7-20
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    • 2023
  • The construction method of scaffolding structures is different from Mortise and Tenon and bucket arch structure of traditional large woodwork. It forms an independent construction system-fixing nodes with knots, a large number of diagonal braces are used to fix shelves and the structures mostly contain X-shape and triangular shape details. Simple ones include stalls, sheds, rain sheds, altars, lamp racks etc. But the scaffolding with larger scale and more complicated structure are modeled on archways, theatres and other buildings which are used in commercial and festival activities. At present, Macao, Hong Kong, Guangdong, Sichuan, Shanxi and other places in China have retained the custom of using scaffolding structures in important festival activities, but their uses, techniques and building types are slightly different from place to place. Due to building and demolishing at any time, the construction and service cycle is short. As a result, there are almost no physical objects left. We can only deduce the use and technical characteristics of ancient scaffolding skills through the colorful building styles that have been preserved with folk activities in various parts of China, the craftsmanship handed down from generation to generation by the scaffolding guild and artisans, and the description of cultural and historical materials and the mutual corroboration of visual materials.

Efficient Description Method for Hanok Components Reflecting Coupling Scheme of Wooden Structure (목조건축의 결구방식을 고려한 효과적인 한옥부재 표현 기법)

  • Ahn, Eun-Young;Kim, Jae-Won
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.318-328
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    • 2011
  • This paper suggests a comprehensive method to describe architectural components for supporting Korean Traditional Building design with only small components set in CAD system. Korean traditional buildings can be classified variously based on the their size, usage and structure type(whether ornament part, namely Gongpo, is in there or not). Moreover components can be varied according to the combining rule between them. If all of these components are presented, these tremendous components rather prevent the efficient design of traditional buildings. In order to solve this problem we present object-oriented approach to describe versatile components as one template if they are same in functional aspects. From the template, many similar instances can be derived according to the attribute value. The templates are designed in order to reflect the coupling scheme between components in the relative parameters of the templates. It leads effects of minimizing error which can be occurred frequently in the process of traditional building design.

Symbol recognition using vectorial signature matching for building mechanical drawings

  • Cho, Chi Yon;Liu, Xuesong;Akinci, Burcu
    • Advances in Computational Design
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.155-177
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    • 2019
  • Operation and Maintenance (O&M) phase is the main contributor to the total lifecycle cost of a building. Previous studies have described that Building Information Models (BIM), if available with detailed asset information and their properties, can enable rapid troubleshooting and execution of O&M tasks by providing the required information of the facility. Despite the potential benefits, there is still rarely BIM with Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) assets and properties that are available for O&M. BIM is usually not in possession for existing buildings and generating BIM manually is a time-consuming process. Hence, there is a need for an automated approach that can reconstruct the MEP systems in BIM. Previous studies investigated automatic reconstruction of BIM using architectural drawings, structural drawings, or the combination with photos. But most of the previous studies are limited to reconstruct the architectural and structural components. Note that mechanical components in the building typically require more frequent maintenance than architectural or structural components. However, the building mechanical drawings are relatively more complex due to various type of symbols that are used to represent the mechanical systems. In order to address this challenge, this paper proposed a symbol recognition framework that can automatically recognize the different type of symbols in the building mechanical drawings. This study applied vector-based computer vision techniques to recognize the symbols and their properties (e.g., location, type, etc.) in two vector-based input documents: 2D drawings and the symbol description document. The framework not only enables recognizing and locating the mechanical component of interest for BIM reconstruction purpose but opens the possibility of merging the updated information into the current BIM in the future reducing the time of repeated manual creation of BIM after every renovation project.

Multi-material topology optimization for crack problems based on eXtended isogeometric analysis

  • Banh, Thanh T.;Lee, Jaehong;Kang, Joowon;Lee, Dongkyu
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.37 no.6
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    • pp.663-678
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    • 2020
  • This paper proposes a novel topology optimization method generating multiple materials for external linear plane crack structures based on the combination of IsoGeometric Analysis (IGA) and eXtended Finite Element Method (X-FEM). A so-called eXtended IsoGeometric Analysis (X-IGA) is derived for a mechanical description of a strong discontinuity state's continuous boundaries through the inherited special properties of X-FEM. In X-IGA, control points and patches play the same role with nodes and sub-domains in the finite element method. While being similar to X-FEM, enrichment functions are added to finite element approximation without any mesh generation. The geometry of structures based on basic functions of Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) provides accurate and reliable results. Moreover, the basis function to define the geometry becomes a systematic p-refinement to control the field approximation order without altering the geometry or its parameterization. The accuracy of analytical solutions of X-IGA for the crack problem, which is superior to a conventional X-FEM, guarantees the reliability of the optimal multi-material retrofitting against external cracks through using topology optimization. Topology optimization is applied to the minimal compliance design of two-dimensional plane linear cracked structures retrofitted by multiple distinct materials to prevent the propagation of the present crack pattern. The alternating active-phase algorithm with optimality criteria-based algorithms is employed to update design variables of element densities. Numerical results under different lengths, positions, and angles of given cracks verify the proposed method's efficiency and feasibility in using X-IGA compared to a conventional X-FEM.