Tag: Modelling

The Art of Architectural Modelling in Paper – Primary Source Edition

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

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Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis (The Enterprise Engineering Series)

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An enterprise architecture tries to describe and control an organisation’s structure, processes, applications, systems and techniques in an integrated way. The unambiguous specification and description of components and their relationships in such an architecture requires a coherent architecture modelling language.

Lankhorst and his co‑authors present such an enterprise modelling language that captures the complexity of architectural domains and their relations and allows the construction of integrated enterprise architecture models. They provide architects with concrete instruments that improve their architectural practice. As this is not enough, they additionally present techniques and heuristics for communicating with all relevant stakeholders about these architectures. Since an architecture model is useful not only for providing insight into the current or future situation but can also be used to evaluate the transition from ‘as‑is’ to ‘to‑be’, the authors also describe analysis methods for assessing both the qualitative impact of changes to an architecture and the quantitative aspects of architectures, such as performance and cost issues.

The modelling language presented has been proven in practice in many real‑life case studies and has been adopted by The Open Group as an international standard. So this book is an ideal companion for enterprise IT or business architects in industry as well as for computer or management science students studying the field of enterprise architecture.

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The Art of Working in Pasteboard, Upon Scientific Principles; To Which Is Added, an Appendix, Containing Directions for Constructing Architectural … or the Art of Modelling in Paper

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827. Excerpt: … the work-box, except the groove for the lid consisting of four pieces, each of which is fixed separately to its side-piece, after a strip of sarsnet, that strengthens the hinge, has been glued in the inside.. ORNAMENTS. Objects made of pasteboard, when they are of a competent size, may be decorated in various ways, which the genius and fancy of the young artist will readily suggest. But such ornaments are generally made of fine coloured paper cut into narrow slips, or of the gold and silver or coloured embessed borders, described in page 38, the breadth of which is always proportionate to the magnitude of the article that is to be ornamented. One edge, and on occasions, both edges of such paper borders, are pinked, vandyked, or cut out in small concave bows of equal dimensions; or sometimes one edge, or even both edges of the strips form a zigzag line. In plate VI, fig. 3, the numhers 1, 2,3, 4, 5, are patterns of paper ornaments cut out with punches or pinking irons. On placing the instrument a second time close to the first line which has been pierced, and stamping or pinking in a line parallel with it, you obtain a zigzag line, which being applied in different ways, forms a very beautiful ornament. Numbers 4 and 5 are specimens of such lines cut out of paper. A particular skill in cutting ornaments with a pair of scissors, out of paper folded double, has the advantage of enabling the artist to contrive a far greater variety of ornaments than can be obtained with a punch, though perhaps not quite so regular and accurate-; and here it may be observed, that if a variety of accurate paper patterns be cut, they will serve as guides for cutting others out of plain or coloured pasteboard, which will be found useful for many purposes. This cutting out of ‘hand…

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Integrated Land Use and Transport Modelling: Decision Chains and Hierarchies (Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies)

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The integration of the location of activities in space and the use of transport has been a theoretical planning issue for many years. However, most books on this subject treat each component of the land use and transportation system with different, sometimes even conflicting, theories. The purpose of this book is to present the issue in the light of a single and consistent theoretical framework, that of random utility theory and discrete choice models. This is achieved in a methodical way, reviewing microeconomic theory related to the use of space, spatial interaction models, entropy maximising models, and finally, random utility theory. Emphasis is given to the concepts of decision chains and hierarchies. Spatial input-output models are also discussed, followed by chapters specifically dealing with the location of activities, the land market and the transport system. The book ends with the description of a number of real case studies to show how the theory can be used in practice.

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Boundary Representation Modelling Techniques

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Boundary representation is the principal solid modelling method used in modern CAD/CAM systems. There have been a long series of developments on which currently available systems are based, full details of which are only partially known. Ian Stroud’s thorough coverage of these developments puts this technology in perspective and provides the most complete presentation of boundary representation solid modelling yet published.

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The Art of Architectural Modelling in Paper

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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

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