Dimensional reduction of 3D building models using graph theory and its application in building energy simulation

Since the various people involved in the design process for a building project tend to hold conflicting views, this inevitably leads to a range of disparate models for planning and calculation purposes. In order to interpret the relevant geometrical, topological and semantical data for any given building model, we identify a structural component graph, a graph of room faces, a room graph and a relational object graph as aids and explain algorithms to derive these relations. We start with a building model by transferring its geometrical, topological and semantical data into a volume model, decomposing the latter into a so-called connection model and then extracting all air volume bodies and hulls of the model by means of further decomposition into elementary cyclic connection components. The technique is demonstrated within the scope of building energy simulation by deriving both a dimensionally reduced object model required for setting up a thermal multizone model and a geometrical model for defining single or multiple computational fluid dynamic domains in a building together with incidence matrices correlating these models. The algorithm is basically applicable to any building energy simulation tool.

A metagenetic algorithm for information filtering and collection from the World Wide Web

This paper describes the implementation of evolutionary techniques for information filtering and collection from the World Wide Web. We consider the problem of building intelligent agents to facilitate a person's search for information on the Web. An intelligent agent has been developed that uses a metagenetic algorithm in order to collect and recommend Web pages that will be interesting to the user. The user's feedback on the agent's recommendations drives the learning process to adapt the user's profile with his/her interests. The software agent utilizes the metagenetic algorithm to explore the search space of user interests. Experimental results are presented in order to demonstrate the suitability of the metagenetic algorithm's approach on the Web.     

A Reusable Multi-Agent Architecture for Active Intelligent Websites

In this paper a reusable multi-agent architecture for intelligent Websites is presented and illustrated for an electronic department store. The architecture has been designed and implemented using the compositional design method for multi-agent systems DESIRE. The agents within this architecture are based on a generic information broker agent model. It is shown how the architecture can be exploited to design an intelligent Website for insurance, developed in co-operation with the software company Ordina Utopics and an insurance company.     

Web多媒体信息存取技术

利用ASP（Active Server Pages)和SQL Server数据库实现Web多媒体信息的存取,介绍了ASP技术的基本原理多媒体信息存储的主要原理。     

实时信息系统的虚拟分层设计方案

本文借助软件系统分层设计的思想,提出了虚拟层的概念,并给出了一个实时信息系统虚拟分层设计方案,这为实际应用中各种规模的系列系统提供了一个组态灵活的开发方法。实践证明,这个方案取得了很好的效果,并具有很强的灵活性。     

Patient views of adverse events: comparisons of self-reported healthcare staff attitudes with disclosure of accident information

In the present paper, we report results of surveys in 2003 in Japan and Denmark about patients' views about adverse events, focusing on the actions of healthcare staff involved in a medical accident. Results show that patients were more likely to indicate negative expectations to a doctor's reactions after a medical accident when asked in general terms than when asked in relation to concrete case stories. When asked in general terms, 66% (47%) of Japanese (Danish) respondents expected that doctors sometimes hold back on providing information to patients about a medical accident, while 37% (7%) did so when asked about a concrete, mild-outcome case. We examine some possible reasons for the relatively high level of distrust of Japanese patients, and we discuss whether the seemingly lower level of disclosure in Japan than in Denmark and the negative stories in the Japanese press may have an impact. We also suggest some implications for introducing a patient-centred or customer-centred approach to risk management in healthcare and other domains.     

一种通用的应用系统权限管理的实现方法

从数据库访问权限和应用层各个子系统访问权限两个方面,介绍了一种用于管理信息系统的通用权限管理方法,并给出了相应的功能模型（ＤＦＤ）和信息模型（ＥＲ图）及部分程序设计代码。     

面向企业的运输销售管理信息系统设计

以石油企业运输销售经营管理为背景,对运输销售管理信息系统进行了研究.以软件工程为指导,运用先进的设计方法与结构分析,并结合数据库的特点给出了运输销售管理信息系统具体的设计方案.