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  • Asking, Looking, Playing, Making

    A nature-focused design process

    Design is a process requiring both rigour and freedom; focus and expansion. Yet how does the concept - the 'intention' - become a built project?This accessible book acts as a storytelling toolkit, taking designers through a tried-and-tested process for taking an architectural project from thought to built project. Based around four main sections - Asking, Looking, Playing and Making - the authors ... Read more

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  • Software Architecture

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    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book provides a collection of cutting-edge research roadmaps that attempt to determine and perhaps even shape the future of software architecture research. It contains a distillation of the outputs from several ICSA 2022 working sessions and the subsequent work from the authors.Software architecture research involves the study of the design and analysis of software systems, focusing on the ... Read more

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  • Cloud Data Management

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    In practice, the design and architecture of a cloud varies among cloud providers. We present a generic evaluation framework for the performance, availability and reliability characteristics of various cloud platforms. We describe a generic benchmark architecture for cloud databases, specifically NoSQL database as a service. It measures the performance of replication delay and monetary cost.Service ... Read more

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  • 101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School

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