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Integrated supply-demand models for the optimization of flexible transportation systems

Bilge Atasoy

This thesis investigates methodologies for improving the demand responsiveness of transportation systems through flexibility. The methodologies propose advances both in demand and supply models having a focus on supply-demand interactions. The demand side ...

EPFL2013

Effective Consumption Scheduling for Demand-Side Management in the Smart Grid using Non-Uniform Participation Rate

Karl Aberer, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya, Xin Liu

Periods of peak consumer demand in today’s electricity sector are expensive to satisfy and can be the source of power failures. One possible solution is the use of demand-side management (DSM) applying dynamic pricing mechanisms. However, instead of reduci ...

2013

Price Theory in Economics

Thomas Alois Weber

This paper reviews topics in price theory such as rational choice, Walrasian equilibria, complete and incomplete markets, externalities and nonmarket goods, strategic pricing with complete and incomplete information, and some behavioral anomalies. Contains ...

EPFL2012

Multi-resource allocation in stochastic project scheduling

Daniel Kuhn, Wolfram Wiesemann

We propose a resource allocation model for project scheduling. Our model accommodates multiple resources and decision-dependent activity durations inspired by microeconomic theory. First, we elaborate a deterministic problem formulation. In a second stage, ...

2012

Price Theory in Economics

Thomas Alois Weber

This article describes how prices are treated in economic theory. Section 17.2 begins by introducing the concepts of ‘rational preference’ and ‘utility function’, which are standard building blocks of models that attempt to explain choice behaviour. Sectio ...

Oxford University Press2012

Corporate investment and financing under asymmetric information

Erwan Morellec, Norman Schuerhoff

We develop a dynamic model of corporate investment and financing decisions in which corporate insiders have superior information about the firm's growth prospects. We show that firms with positive private information can credibly signal their type to outsi ...

2011

Optimal service pricing for a cloud cache

Anastasia Ailamaki, Grégory François, Debabrata Dash, Sofia Kyriakopoulou

Cloud applications that offer data management services are emerging. Such clouds support caching of data in order to provide quality query services. The users can query the cloud data, paying the price for the infrastructure they use. Cloud management nece ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Optimal service pricing for a cloud cache

Anastasia Ailamaki, Grégory François, Debabrata Dash, Sofia Kyriakopoulou

2011

Socio-Economic Assessment of Fusion Energy Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment Programme

Denis Bednyagin

Providing safe, clean and affordable energy supply is essential for meeting the basic needs of human society and for supporting economic growth. From the historical perspective, the constantly growing energy use was one of the main factors, which drove the ...

EPFL2010

Climate Policy Making for Enhanced Technological and Institutional Innovation

Within the framework of the CCES1 project ‘Climate Policy making for enhanced technological and institutional innovation’ (ClimPol) we are investigating the role of firms in climate policy making. The aim of this research is to give recommendations for eff ...

2009