The present disclosure is directed to methods and apparatus for improving existing buildings or for improving new buildings. This process may include identifying factors and related metrics that leverage one or more building quality index values when an overall quality of a building is accessed and improved. Such a building quality index value may be a single value within a possible range of values. The index value may be a compilation or other transformation of values associated with various categories that may include building materials, types of businesses contained within the building, environmental impact of the building, and other metrics. This building quality index value may be a function of characteristics that may be associated with people that use the building, environmental conditions that surround the building, a location, a risk likelihood, past and future projected climatic conditions, or other factors.

A system for testing the technical applicability of intellectual property rights having a computational linguistics module, which is designed to receive chains of technical graphemes and/or digitized symbolic images of intellectual property right specifications as input information, and to mechanically transfer the input information into an information model, an ontology memory, which is designed to store taxonomies, which are linked via inference rules, of conceptual classified object types, a semiotics module, which is coupled to the computational linguistics module and the ontology memory and which is designed to instantiate semiotic signs included in the information model, which is generated by the computational linguistics module, using conceptual classified object types stored in the ontology memory, and to create a contextualized information model, a construction module, which is coupled to the semiotics module and which is designed to generate a CAD model from the contextualized information model created by the semiotics module, and a 3D printing device, which is coupled to the construction module and which is designed to additively manufacture a product, which is encoded by the CAD model.

A method for the scheme design of shear wall structure based on a generative adversarial network includes: obtaining an architectural drawing; extracting key elements from the architectural drawing, coding the key elements by colors, and generating image features; inputting the image features into a pre-trained structural-design-oriented generative adversarial network model for processing to generate a structural drawing.

A method for dependent failure analysis of a circuit design includes obtaining a circuit design comprising a plurality of circuit elements, and generating a first cone of influence and a second cone of influence for the circuit design. The first cone of influence corresponds to a first one or more inputs of the circuit design. The second cone of influence corresponds to a second one or more inputs of the circuit design. The method further includes determining a first shared circuit element of the circuit elements within a first intersection between the first cone of influence and the second cone of influence. Further, the method includes determining a first coupling factor based on the first intersection between the first cone of influence and the second cone of influence, and outputting the first shared circuit element and the first coupling factor to a memory.

A network construction support system (100) generates one or more pieces of layout data (101) indicating a layout of construction assisting tools (140). The network construction support system calculates a countermeasure cost and an estimated risk amount, for each layout data, the countermeasure cost increasing as a number of units of construction assisting tools increases, the estimated risk amount decreasing as the number of units of construction assisting tools increases and as a narrowed range by each construction assisting tool narrows. The network construction support system judges an appropriateness of the layout data for the apparatus network system, for each layout data, on the basis of a countermeasure cost, an estimated risk amount, and an allowable risk amount which is allowed for the apparatus network system, The network construction support system outputs layout data judged to be appropriate for the apparatus network system.

When operating a production site, it is preferable to maintain accurate models continuously. Provided is a system including a simulating section that simulates operation of at least a portion of a production site, based on a simulation model of the at least a portion of the production site; a monitoring section that monitors actual operation of the at least a portion of the production site; a calibrating section that calibrates the simulation model, based on a difference between the simulated operation and the actual operation; and an updating section that updates a planning model used to generate a production plan for the production site, according to the calibration of the simulation model.

Creation and use of a digital twin instance (DTI) for a physical instance of the part. The DTI may be created by a model inversion process such that model parameters are iterated until a convergence criterion related to a physical resonance inspection result and a digital resonance inspection result is satisfied. The DTI may then be used in relation to part evaluation including through simulated use of the part. The physical instance of the part may be evaluated by way of the DTI or the DTI may be used to generate maintenance schedules specific to the physical instance of the part.

A computing system can implement a circuit verification tool to perform scaled sampling of parameter values in a foundry model describing parameter variations for a manufacturing process capable of fabricating an integrated circuit described in a circuit design. The computing system can simulate the circuit design with the scaled samples of the parameter values, and build a geometric model to describe a response of the circuit design to the scaled samples of the parameter values during the simulation. The geometric model can include one or more failure regions corresponding to geometric descriptions for failures of the circuit design to meet a specification during simulation with the scaled samples of the parameter values. The computing system can estimate a yield for an output of the integrated circuit described by the circuit design based on the failure regions in the geometric model.

Disclosed is a method of evaluating and optimizing a micro model prior to fabrication of the micro model. The method comprises obtaining a design document describing a geometry of a proposed micro model and abstracting the geometry into a simplified representation of said geometry, such as a pore network representation. Performance of the proposed micro model based on the abstracted geometry is simulated and based on this, the proposed micro model is evaluated and/or optimized.

A system and method for adding interface protection to an electronic design using parameters. The electronic design and interface protection scheme are defined as parameters. An interface protection model creates interface protection implementation parameters that describe the implementation details of the interface protection. A hardware description model uses the electronic design parameters and the interface protection implementation parameters to create a hardware description. The interface protection scheme can be a built-in protection scheme, a user defined scheme, a scheme that includes place holders that the user may define later, and a combination of the preceding. The interface protection scheme may contain components to help with the retiming of the description of hardware.