Architecture

This book provides a comprehensive study on state-of-the-art developments in the control, operation, and market participation of active buildings (ABs).

Many people living with epilepsy also suffer from debilitating psychiatric and cognitive disorders.

This book explains how energy demand and energy consumption in new buildings can be predicted and how these aspects and the resulting CO2 emissions can be reduced.

This book investigates the impact of misinformation and the role of truth in political struggle.

This book explores the constitutional debates of the Year 3 of the French Revolution (also known as Year 1 of the French Republic) and the drafts for the Declaration and the Constitution of 1793.

This book offers a unique compendium of the authors' own research on the use of theoretical stability analysis, showing how to take advantage of local stability design and ultimate boundedness for practical robot control.

Ce numéro spécial de Géographie et Cultures intitulé "Spatialités et pratiques funéraires" interroge la thématique de la mort dans sa dimension spatiale.

In this book, experts discuss how German real estate values have remained stable throughout the financial crisis, even though transaction volumes have been very volatile since 2005.

This book presents papers presented at the 4th EAI International Conference on Robotic Sensor Networks.

This volume presents the latest research and industrial applications in the areas of mechanism science, robotics and dynamics.

This volume discusses the climate responsiveness of sustainable architecture design and technology in China, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea in recent years, addressing concepts and applications in urban planning, building design, and structural performance evaluation.

This book offers a new look at emergence in terms of a hierarchical emergent ontology.

This book incorporates a wealth of research focused on the more and more urgent challenges that urban planning and architectural design all over the world must cope with: from climate change to environmental decay, from an increasing urban population to an increasing poverty.

This book is an exploration of the integration-differentiation dynamics that result in a drive, or impulse, toward human sociality, arguing that our need to connect with other people is as fundamental as our need for food and shelter.

This book includes the proceedings of the Responsible Engineering and Living 2022 Symposium and Industry Summit.

Evaluating building materials for environmental sustainability is a complex prospect.

This proceedings book comprises the latest achievements in research and development in educational robotics presented at the 11th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE), which was carried out as a purely virtual conference from September 30 to October 2, 2020.

This book contains selected papers presented during the World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC) 2020 at the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon.

This state-of-the-art book brings together the full range of issues that can inform care for patients experiencing the effects of concussion.

Due diligence is the bedrock of real estate deals, regardless of the volume of transaction.

Urban planners across the world are faced with sustainable development issues in their work, especially when they are tasked with creating green cities or where sustainable and smart growth in urban settings are set as primary goals.

It was not so long ago that the dominant picture of Kant's practical philosophy was forma-listic, focusing almost exclusively on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason.

This volume offers a wide-ranging discussion on the interrelations among AI, algorithms, big data, and Industry 4.

This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand "e;the mind-body problem"e;.

This book explores cloud robotics by casting a light on key issues and proposing a novel approach towards implementation and practical aspects to allow for the widespread adoption of cloud-based functionality.

This book provides a comprehensive exchange of information on current developments in the field of sustainable management of manufacturing systems and Industry 4.

This textbook provides an innovative pedagogy to students who will be the policy makers of tomorrow.

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This book focuses on sustainability concepts in architecture and urban design, environmental issues, and natural resources.

This book is the volume of the proceedings for the 17th Edition of ISER.

This book deals with important issues related to urban housing in South Asia.

This book presents research on energy poverty alleviation, approaching the complex phenomenon topic holistically and with heterogeneity.

This book examines how left-wing political and cultural movements in Western Europe have considered Jews in the last two hundred years.

This book is the first research collection by the Malaysian Society for Automatic Control Engineers (MACE).

The book investigates the theme of Modernism (1920-1960 and its epigones) as an integral part of tangible and intangible cultural heritage which contains the result of a whole range of disciplines whose aim is to identify, document and preserve the memory of the past and the value of the future.

The design of a building can facilitate the process of use and promote the well-being of users if it meets their needs.

This proceedings book helps bring insights from this array of technical sub-topics together, as advanced robot algorithms draw on the combined expertise of many fields-including control theory, computational geometry and topology, geometrical and physical modeling, reasoning under uncertainty, probabilistic algorithms, game theory, and theoretical computer science.

Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes.

This book explores the bioclimatic approach to building design.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of machine science and mechanical engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 11th International Conference on Machine and Industrial Design in Mechanical Engineering (KOD), held in Novi Sad, Serbia on June 10-12, 2021.

This book emphasizes new ways of designing for a sustainable city and urban environment.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent and advanced research findings on energy production and management in the important Ural industrial region of Russia.

Economic constraints and lack of knowledge often prevent companies - especially small and medium enterprises - from harmonizing their facilities with the landscape.

This book develops a new Wittgenstein interpretation called Wittgenstein's Metametaphysics.

This book contains the papers that were presented at the 17th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR).

This book presents the current state of the problem of describing the musculoskeletal system of a person.

This book contains contributions from an international scientific conference, "e;Smart Nations: Global Trends In The Digital Economy"e;, which was organized by the State University of Management (Moscow).

This book is a collection of research results in a wide range of topics related to human-robot interaction, both physical and cognitive, including theories, methodologies, technologies, and empirical and experimental studies.