All Outputs (10)

Occupants and daylight in office buildings under sunny skies. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BELAKEHAL, A., TABET AOUL, K. and BENNADJI, A. 2004. Occupants and daylight in office buildings under sunny skies. In Ellis, R. and Bell, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2004 International construction and building research conference (COBRA 2004), 7-8 September 2004, Leeds, UK. London: RICS Foundation.

It is expected that the climate of North Africa, one of the hottest regions of the world, will become still more extreme due to the effects of global warming. This would result in higher energy consumptions for cooling purposes in buildings. Daylight... Read More about Occupants and daylight in office buildings under sunny skies..

Escaping local optima in multi-agent oriented constraint satisfaction. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BASHARU, M., AHRIZ, H. and ARANA, I. 2004. Escaping local optima in multi-agent oriented constraint satisfaction. In Coenen, F., Preece, A. and Macintosh, A. (eds.) Research and development in intelligent systems XX: technical proceedings of the 23rd Annual international conference of the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) (AI-2003), 15-17 December 2003, Cambridge, UK. London: Springer [online], pages 97-110. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-412-8_8

We present a multi-agent approach to constraint satisfaction where feedback and reinforcement are used in order to avoid local optima and, consequently, to improve the overall solution. Our approach, FeReRA, is based on the fact that an agents local... Read More about Escaping local optima in multi-agent oriented constraint satisfaction..

Building models through formal specification. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
RENKER, G. and AHRIZ, H. 2004. Building models through formal specification. In Régin, J.-C. and Rueher, M. (eds.) Integration of AI and OR techniques in constraint programming for combinatorial optimization problems: proceedings of the 1st International conference on integration of artificial intelligence and operations research techniques in constraint programming (CPAIOR 2004), 20-22 April 2004, Nice, France. Lecture notes in computer science, 3011. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 395-401. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24664-0_29

Over the past years, a number of increasingly expressive languages for modelling constraint and optimisation problems have evolved. In developing a strategy to ease the complexity of building models for constraint and optimisation problems, we have a... Read More about Building models through formal specification..

Computer aided sustainable design. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BENNADJI, A., AHRIZ, H. and ALASTAIR, P. 2005. Computer aided sustainable design. In Proceedings of the 1st International Arab Society for Computer Aided Architecrual Design (ASCAAD) conference on computer aided architectural design(ASCAAD 2005); e-design in architecure, 22-24 February 2005, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Dhahran: ASCAAD [online], pages 125-135. Available from: http://www.ascaad.org/conference/2004/proceedings.php

One of the most important aspects architects need to consider fairly early on is that of energy saving, cost, thermal comfort and the effect on the environment in terms of CO2 emissions. At present, during the early design stage of a building, differ... Read More about Computer aided sustainable design..

The dynamic of the edge: practice led research into the value of the arts in marginal spaces. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
DOUGLAS, A., FREMANTLE, C. and DELDAY, H. 2004. The dynamic of the edge: practice led research into the value of the arts in marginal spaces. Presented at Sensuous knowledge 1 (SK1): creating a tradition, 26-28 October 2004, Solstrand, Norway.

This paper articulates an approach to art and design practice that questions two fundamental assumptions: firstly, it is not framed by the creative practice of an individual artist delivering an authored artwork to a public or audience; secondly, it... Read More about The dynamic of the edge: practice led research into the value of the arts in marginal spaces..

Craft connexity: developing a sustainable model for future craft education. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MALINS, J., PRESS, M. and MCKILLOP, C. 2004. Craft connexity: developing a sustainable model for future craft education. In Proceedings of the Challenging craft international conference, 8-10 September 2004, Aberdeen, UK. Aberdeen: Gray's School of Art.

Craft is an anachronism “ discuss ¦ Some twenty-five years ago, on applying for a place at a college of art to study ceramics, Julian was asked to write an essay on the above topic. Naturally he was keen to impress so he responded to the question by... Read More about Craft connexity: developing a sustainable model for future craft education..

Concept learning and information inferencing on a high-dimensional semantic space. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SONG, D., BRUZA, P. and COLE, R. 2004. Concept learning and information inferencing on a high-dimensional semantic space. Presented at the 2004 Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) workshop on mathematical/formal methods in information retrieval (MF/IR 2004), 25-29 July 2004, Sheffield, UK.

How to automatically capture a significant portion of relevant background knowledge and keep it up-to-date has been a challenging problem encountered in current research on logic based information retrieval. This paper addresses this problem by inves... Read More about Concept learning and information inferencing on a high-dimensional semantic space..

Recent advances in fuel cells technology. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ALI, D. and SALMAN, S.K. 2004. Recent advances in fuel cells technology. Presented at the 2004 Energy storage and renewable power systems conference, 7 July 2004, Aberdeen, UK.

The 21st Century will be the Dispersed generation or decentralized power systems (wind turbines, photovoltaic, fuel cells FC) century. Fuel cell is an emerging energy efficient technology with zero carbon emission to replace engines and batteries sav... Read More about Recent advances in fuel cells technology..

Femmes, lumière et espace: cas de l’habitat collectif à Biskra, Algérie. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BELAKEHAL, A., TABET AOUL, K. and BENNADJI, A. 2004. Femmes, lumière et espace: cas de l’habitat collectif à Biskra, Algérie. Presented at Usages et appropriation de l’espace: entre pratiques et régulations, 20-21 April 2004, Annaba, Algeria.

This study attempts to explore new forms of appropriation of architectural space by its occupant according to the relationship it maintains to the physical factors of the environment and in particular the sun and its light. The notion of luminous ter... Read More about Femmes, lumière et espace: cas de l’habitat collectif à Biskra, Algérie..

Drawing out digital media: degrees of three dimensionality. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MAXWELL, R., PENGELLY, J., HENDERSON, D., DUNBAR, L., ROSS, C., CULLAN, L., WARD, S., MCKENZIE SMITH, S., AGNEW, M., WAIGHT, M. and RINGE, S. 2004. Drawing out digital media: degrees of three dimensionality. Presented at the 2nd Interdisciplinary art/design conference (Pixel Raiders 2), 6-8 April 2004, Sheffield, UK.

"Drawing Out Digital Media" is a research cluster based within Gray’s School of Art at Robert Gordon University. The cluster explores how new technologies might lead to new visual/physical/conceptual forms, and raise questions about existing definiti... Read More about Drawing out digital media: degrees of three dimensionality..