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Multiobjective Optimization of Utility Plants under Several Environmental Indicators Using an MILP-Based Dimensionality Reduction Approach

We address the multicriterion optimization of utility plants with economic and environmental concerns. Rather than optimizing a single environmental metric, which was the traditional approach followed in the past, we focus on optimizing these systems consi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

De Gustibus Disputandum Est: Non-Linearity in Public Transportation Service Quality Evaluation

Amanda Blomberg Stathopoulos

User perceptions of service quality are essential to promote public transport ridership and trigger positive externalities. Therefore, research efforts need to analyze service quality from the point of view of users. This article builds on the stream of wo ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2014

Bidder optimal assignments for general utilities

Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber

We study the problem of matching bidders to items where each bidder i has general, strictly monotonic utility functions u(i,j)(p(j)) expressing his utility of being matched to item j at price p(j). For this setting we prove that a bidder optimal outcome al ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

The Economics of Water Distribution in Switzerland

Anne-Kathrin Faust

This thesis analyses three distinct aspects of the economics of water distribution in Switzerland. Climate change and mounting pressure regarding the performance of network industries command an understanding of the drivers of cost and efficiency of water ...

EPFL2013

Cluster formation over adaptive networks with selfish agents

Ali H. Sayed

We examine the problem of adaptation and learning over networks with selfish agents. In order to motivate agents to cooperate, we allow the agents to select their partners according to whether they can help them reduce their utility costs. We divide the op ...

2013

Towards Enabling Schema Reuse with Privacy Constraints

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên, Son Thanh Do

As the number of schema repositories grows rapidly and several web-based platforms exist to support publishing schemas, \emph{schema reuse} becomes a new trend. Schema reuse is a methodology that allows users to create new schemas by copying and adapting e ...

2013

DRSim: A Cyber Physical Simulator for Demand Response Systems

Karl Aberer, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Demand Response (DR) is a mechanism in which electricity consumers alter their demand in response to power grid’s supply and economic conditions. DR programs have the potential to improve resource efficiency, sustainability, grid reliability and economic v ...

2013

The CLASSgal code for relativistic cosmological large scale structure

Julien Lesgourgues, Ruth Durrer

We present accurate and efficient computations of large scale structure observables, obtained with a modified version of the c l ass code which is made publicly available. This code includes all relativistic corrections and computes both the power spectrum ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Symbolic Representation of Smart Meter Data

Karl Aberer, Julien Eberle, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Currently smart meter data analytics has received enormous attention because it allows utility companies to analyze customer consumption behavior in real time. However, the amount of data generated by these sensors is very large. As a result, analytics per ...

ACM2013

A pricing mechanism for Femto Base Stations

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ramin Khalili

Telecom service providers have not control over functionality of Femto-BSs. However, they can motivate home service providers to cooperate with them (e.g. activate their Femto-BSs) by porpoising a reasonable price for service they provide. A home service p ...

2012

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