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	Autonomous building
		In the event of heavy precipitation, the load on the sewage treatment plant at the end of the pipe[?] becomes too great to handle and raw sewage is dumped in to holding tanks, and sometimes into the lake.
		The basic trick is to cool the building's thermal mass at night, and then cool the building from the thermal mass during the day.
		A major bank building (ING's Amsterdam headquarters) in the Netherlands was constructed to be autonomous, and artistic as well.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/au/Autonomous_building.html (2559 words)

	Autonomous building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An autonomous building is designed to have no or very few networked services.
		Autonomous buildings are intended to reduce network costs and transport wastes and distribute their benign environmental impacts more widely and over cityscapes and suburbs, rather than the rural and wild landscapes more usually impacted by industrial resource collection and transportation.
		Autonomous buildings promise to reduce the impact of centralized industrial solutions.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/a/au/autonomous_building.html (2874 words)

	Autonomous building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An autonomous building is a building designed to be operated independently from infrastructural support services such as the electric power grid, municipal water systems, sewage treatment systems, storm drains, communication services, and (in some cases) public roads.
		Autonomous buildings are usually energy-efficient in operation, and therefore cost-efficient, for the obvious reason that smaller energy needs are easier to satisfy off-grid.
		Autonomous building is an idea of western civilization in the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Autonomous_building (4440 words)

	Building - Enpsychlopedia
		Building is either the act of creating an object assembled from more than one element, or the object itself; see also construction.
		A building is usually a human-created object composed of more than a single element, permanently fixed to the ground, that mediates one or more aspects of the environment.
		Buildings may be as simple as a lone roof providing shelter from the rain for a single occupant, or as complex as a hospital regulating temperature, air flow, light, gas content, bacteria movement, particle flow, pressure, and people movement and activities.
	enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Building (190 words)

	Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat into the inside (a place of comfort and safety) and the outside (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful).
		Buildings are an inseparable and in most cases an essential part of basic attributes of a human life, such as home, family, work, and sex.
		Buildings can be used to express a religious belief (see Religious architecture), make a political statement (see Freedom Tower; Nazi architecture; Stalinist architecture), or serve as status symbols that reflect the wealth and high social status of their owners (see Egyptian pyramids; Mansion; World's tallest structures).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Building (604 words)

	inrotoproject
		The proposed building is a both a Youth Hostel and a visitor centre educating and catering for school children and the small numbers of visitors to the lakes.
		Building consumes massive amounts of energy and in doing so pollutes on a truly massive scale, from material extraction to finished product the embodied energy levels in one material compared to the next can be very different.
		The embodied energy content of buildings is growing as hi-tech materials and products are employed to bring down operating cost, the brief clearly states that the proposal should be born of low embodied energy materials and services at every stage and justified along the way.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /p_higgi/autonoweb/autonoweb/introtoproject.htm (536 words)

	"Breaking the Ideological Hold: Zapatista Response to Mexico's Bilingual Program in Chiapas" (Part 1) by ...
		Autonomous Theory, necessarily, involves moving from the "victim" state to a position of intersubjectivity by moving from objects of history to the main actors (Lenkersdorf, 1966).
		A corollary to this premise is that the autonomous community is interdependent with the autonomous municipality and the municipality interdepends on the autonomous region, etc. In this global context, where dependence is absolutely necessary, transnationalism is natural enemy to autonomy.
		Autonomous education can only exist within the confines of a politically autonomous community, where the community has full political control and not in an open context, where the ideology of the state freely interferes through and with all its powerful forms.
	www.inmotionmagazine.com /chbilin.html (5513 words)

	Autonomous building (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Autonomous building is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		An autonomous building is a building designed to be operated independently from infrastructual support services such as the electric power power grid, municipal water systems, sewage treatment systems, storm drains, communication services, and (in some cases) public roads.
		Buildings may be as simple as a lone roof providing shelter from the rain for a single occupant, or as complex as a hospital regulating temperature, air flow, light, gas content, bacteria movement, particle flow...
	www.experiencefestival.com.cob-web.org:8888 /autonomous_building (988 words)

	The Seed of True Revolution : Thunderbay IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Within some 2,000 autonomous communities, the indigenous Zapatistas are taking proactive steps in developing the type of indigenous education that they feel they need now.
		The autonomous method contrasts to the approach taken by many well-intended reformers who in an isolated (their classroom only) manner attempt to change their classroom conditions; curriculum, environment, books, etc. This individual approach does very little in terms of solving the problem at most they tend to treat the symptom.
		That autonomous tendencies need to be complemented by the overall building of an autonomous community that would include its own micro-economic projects, and an autonomous political structure.
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /print.php?id=6356 (734 words)

	Alternative Technology - Australian Autonomy - FOE 1976
		The idea of building an 'Autonomous House' using alternative technology came to a group of 2nd and 3rd year Architecture students at Sydney University in 1974.
		The Autonomous House is not just a house with a series of technological systems used to supply an assumed amount of energy, water and shelter, but it is also one of our first steps in a search for a lifestyle more in harmony with the natural world and with other people.
		Most of our material resources in building in general are geared towards building barriers between one another, and yet, by circumstance or desire, people still live close to one another.
	www.takver.com /history/aia/aia00043.htm (890 words)

	Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents
		An agent is called autonomous if it operates completely on its own, deciding by itself what action it should take, considering the input coming from its sensors, in order to achieve its goals.
		In the light of this rather broad definition of agents, the main problem one should deal with, while trying to build such a system, is coming up with an architecture for an agent which will result in an agent demonstrating adaptive, robust and effective behavior.
		Building an adaptive system, which will evolve from a not so successful one into a system that achieves its goals, is often better then building a successful system that does not change in response to changes in the environment or in the tasks.
	www.math.tau.ac.il /~ruppin/ALseminar/yaron.html (1099 words)

	Talk:Autonomous building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I couldn't find the part of the article that gave a figure of 1000 kwh, that is an economical monthly usage, and quite possible in a house that doesn't use air-conditioning and has an economical refrigerator.
		In re Theory: Earlier revisions had some theory, and supporting text; At one point there was quite a long discussion of green building and diffusion of environmental impacts (not by me).
		This is the relevant type of article, because an autonomous building is a different way of distributing basic industries.
	wikipedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Talk:Autonomous_building (1629 words)

	[No title]
		Most residential buildings in Russia, except those still owned by enterprises and a very small number of cooperatives, are the responsibility of municipal governments, even though all or most of the apartments themselves may have been privatized.
		Autonomous heat sources have the potential to produce heat at much greater overall system efficiencies where cost-effective and where gas distribution constraints can be overcome.
		The ESMAP study considers the question of autonomous heating sources versus centralized district heating systems to be a critical one, although the limited scope of the first phases of this study will just begin to address the issues (in Russia a three-week study in one city is being conducted in 1996).
	www.gefweb.org /wprogram/1096/russia.htm (9509 words)

	[No title]
		Graphical Explanation To Project ABBA Autonomous Bibliography Building Agent Explanations to the graphs above I nput basically is the process of gathering source materials to be used as input for the text mining process.
		An autonomous agent is one whose behavior is based mainly on its own existence, although being able to use certain built-in knowledge.
		Below in the issues to consider pertaining to autonomous agents in text mining system, I will explain some of the major text mining task that a text miner should be able to perform.
	www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/decimal/439/autoagents.doc (6520 words)

	Autonomous building (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A popular system for ultra-high-efficiency houses is a central hydronic air heater which recirculates hot water from a water heater throughout the house; whether the water heater is gas or electric depends on local prices.
		In the 1950s, Buckminster Fullers proposed Dymaxion houses adopted many techniques meant to reduce resource use, such as a "fogger" shower head to reduce water use, a packaging toilet, and a vacuum turbine for electric power.
		While not designed as autonomous per se, Fullers concern with sustainable design is congruent with the goal of autonomy.
	autonomous-building.setcom.sk.cob-web.org:8888 (3878 words)

	lf297, Hardware: Building an autonomous light finder robot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As an autonomous robot (not controlled by a person) we programmed it to run towards the brightest spot in the room.
		To build the robot mount the motors under a small wooden board (12cm x 9cm) and position them almost in the middle such that most of the load will be on the two axis.
		It was good fun to build an autonomous robot which can make decisions on its own and does not need any data connection to a PC.
	www.linuxfocus.org /English/July2003/article297.shtml (2425 words)

	Agents [CiteSeer; NEC Research Institute; Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker, Lee Giles]
		Many AI researchers are today striving to build agent teams for complex, dynamic multi-agent domains, with intended applications in arenas such as education, training, entertainment, information integ...
		The formalization of multi-agent autonomous systems requires a rich ontology for capturing a variety of collective behaviours and a powerful semantics for distinguishing between collective agents havi...
		We take the position that autonomous agents, when they interact with people, should be governed by the same principles that underlie human collaboration.
	sherry.ifi.unizh.ch /Agents (7219 words)

	Linköping Wallenberg Laboratory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Secondly, insofar as the autonomous aircraft are also unmanned (no passengers) they can be made quite small, which offers new dimensions of physical design of the aircraft.
		The last stage of the proposed project will have an \emp{integrated} character, both in the sense that the results of the two subprojects will be combined, and in the sense of establishing a cooperation between university and industry.
		After the milestone that ends phase 2, and depending on a successful demonstration of the target performance especially in subproject A, phase 3 shall consist of the actual design and building of one or a few prototype, unmanned and small-size aircraft which are capable of the performance that was developed and demonstrated during phase 2.
	www.ida.liu.se /~erisa/ntd96/11 (1298 words)

	Dr. Dobb's \| Robots and Finite-State Machines \| July 22, 2001
		Since the purpose of this robot was to examine the control problems at a relatively high level, you may wonder why I went to the trouble of building a physical robot instead of just developing the necessary control techniques through simulation.
		Putting the sensors on the head eliminates the need for expensive rings of sensors that are common on autonomous robots, but adds the complication of having to know where the head is pointing in order to provide a proper context for the sensor data.
		Building a walking robot is considerably more challenging than I originally anticipated.
	www.ddj.com /184410132?pgno=1 (3443 words)

	Alberto Behar's Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In an effort to bring the study of robotics to undergraduate and graduate students from multi-disciplinary fields a unique course was designed and taught in the spring of 1995.
		The design and construction of autonomous robots is as much an art as it is a science.
		With current advances in microelectronics, and the spread of microcomputers the task of building autonomous devices has now been made available to a much broader audience.
	www-robotics.usc.edu /~behar/class.html (293 words)

	logweek9
		He also mentioned about the reallocation to the ISS building on the 3rd September, which is on Thursday.
		Basically, I have to shift over to a new building as the old building was taken over by another organization known as IME.
		of September 1998, the whole building legally belongs to IME and the existing KRDL have to shift over to the new building inside National University of Singapore (NUS [Heng Mui Terrace]), specifically in a building that belongs to another part of KRDL, that is the Institute of System Science (ISS).
	www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/decimal/439/logweek9.htm (1214 words)

	Architectural engineering - Engineering
		What differentiates architectural engineering from its component disciplines is the effort to understand and design for the integration of all the building systems.
		Architects are responsible for the form and appearance of a building with a focus on the way that people use and experience the spaces of the building.
		The Architectural Engineer is responsible for ensuring that "the building works" - that it stands up, that the HVAC system operates, that light and power are delivered as needed.
	engineering.wikia.com /wiki/Architectural_engineering (234 words)

	Cob (building) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cob is a building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth.
		In the UK it is most strongly associated with counties of Devon and Cornwall in the West Country, and the Vale of Glamorgan and Gower Peninsula in Wales, where many cob cottages have survived and are still inhabited.
		Many old cob buildings can be found in Africa, the Middle East, Wales, Devon, Ireland, Cornwall and some parts of the eastern United States.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Cob_(building) (561 words)

	Natural energies for an autonomous building (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Borne by Poitiers University via the thermal and energy engineering department of the IUT technology institute, the projected erection of an energetically autonomous building should be consummated in time for the fall 2007 course resumption.
		That was in 2003, prior to the time when the thermal and energy engineering department conjured up the project of an energetically autonomous building.
		In detail, this “simplest of buildings” will serve as headquarters for college underclassmen It will entail valorizing of renewable energies and energy-related techniques (the French VERTE = green).
	www.biopole-poitiers.org.cob-web.org:8888 /english/reportage_32.php (433 words)

	Engineering students scored high marks at robot vehicle competition
		Judges rated them in the autonomous challenge as their robots sojourned through an obstacle course complete with barrels and ramps; in the design competition through oral and written reports and judging by competition officials; and in the navigation challenge, where the vehicles avoided more obstacles to reach programmed waypoints via GPS sensors.
		According the Intelligent Ground Vehicles Competition’s website, the technologies involved in the competition “come from a wide range of disciplines and are those of great current interest in both industry and engineering education.” Research from the competition benefits a wide range of disciplines, including engineering, computer science, military mobility, intelligent transportation systems and manufacturing.
		Because the vehicles are designed by the effort and imagination of students, the team will not upgrade or build new robots for next summer’s competition until the regular academic year begins.
	www.collegiatetimes.com /print.php?a=5441 (657 words)

	Vertical Village Redux
		This is design of 400 meters (ca.1200 feet) high autonomous building done for "Vertical Village" international competition 1997.
		The shape of the building is conceived as double helix.
		By the competition theme the building should be able to house up to 5000 people most of which should live AND work there.
	www.flaregroup.com /html/vil.htm (625 words)

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