Biomimetic Strategies in Tower Design: Towards the integration of tower subsystems

The paper argues that the tower needs to respond to its environment by changing from a closed building typology towards a heterogeneous, differentiated open system that can adapt to the changing conditions within and around it. This argument is supported by focusing on the analogies and principles of specific biological examples in order to...

Architectural Thermal Forms

The paper presents a developed method and algorithm to create environmental sustainable optimised forms based on the solar energy received in relation to receiving, containing and distributing energy. Different studies are created based upon this approach, to which forms are evaluated against conventional building geometries. The work shows a...

Popularity-based Detection of Domain Generation Algorithms: Or: How to detect botnets?

In order to stay undetected and keep their operations alive, cyber criminals are continuously evolving their methods to stay ahead of current best defense practices. Over the past decade, botnets have developed from using statically hardcoded IP addresses and domain names to randomly-generated ones, so-called domain generation algorithms (DGA)....

Playscapes: An investigation into games as generative interfaces for architecture

This projects aims to understand architectural entities present in Blaak Market, Rotterdam systematically and map their relation to a geometric game. Doing so would enable the inhabitants to voice their concern by play ing an intuitive game. Beside the new approach to participatory design, the methodology adopted in this project has made the...

Exploring normalizing flow for anomaly detection

Anomaly detection is a task of interest in many domains. Typical way of tackling this problem is using an unsupervised way. Recently, deep neural network based density estimators such as Normalizing flows have seen a huge interest. The ability of these models to do the exact latent-variable inference and exact log-likelihood calculation with...

Towards a Robotic Architectural Species: Aggregate Structures and Swarm Robotics

In a quest to breathe new life into public spaces and engage with its today’s increasingly (inter-)connected users, robotic architectural components seem to open up possibilities to give agency to building component. A new field of research has been involving multi-agent robotic systems in the architectural design and/or fabrication process....

Solder joint reliability risk estimation by AI-assisted simulation framework with genetic algorithm to optimize the initial parameters for AI models

Solder joint fatigue is one of the critical failure modes in ball-grid array packaging. Because the reliability test is time-consuming and geometrical/material nonlinearities are required for the physics-driven model, the AI-assisted simulation framework is developed to establish the risk estimation capability against the design and process...

Generative algorithms to improve mental health issue detection

Schema therapy is a physiological treatment technique for mental health issues. Based on the thoughts and behaviour, patients are classified to a schema mode which represents their current state of mind. Automatically classifying these thoughts and behaviours could improve detection of potential mental health issues as well as provide better and...

A Generalized Transformer-Based Pulse Detection Algorithm

Pulse-like signals are ubiquitous in the field of single molecule analysis, e.g., electrical or optical pulses caused by analyte translocations in nanopores. The primary challenge in processing pulse-like signals is to capture the pulses in noisy backgrounds, but current methods are subjectively based on a user-defined threshold for pulse...