Publications related to Decentralization

Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness

Bryan Alexander Ford, Linus Gasser, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic, Nicolas Gailly, Ismail Khoffi

Bias-resistant public randomness is a critical component in many (distributed) protocols. Existing solutions do not scale to hundreds or thousands of participants, as is needed in many decentralized systems. We propose two large-scale distributed protocols ...

Ieee2017

The Rise of Value Networks in the Power Sector: Reinventing Utilities

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

The triple transition—decarbonization, decentralization and digitalization—is rendering obsolete traditional power sector value chains. Value networks are emerging, which will significantly alter the power sector’s landscape and call into question the long ...

2017

Proof-of-Personhood: Redemocratizing Permissionless Cryptocurrencies

Bryan Alexander Ford, Linus Gasser, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic, Nicolas Gailly, Maria Fernanda Borge Chavez

Permissionless blockchain-based cryptocurrencies commonly use proof-of-work (PoW) or proof-of-stake (PoS) to ensure their security, e.g. to prevent double spending attacks. However, both approaches have disadvantages: PoW leads to massive amounts of wasted ...

IEEE2017

Centralized and Decentralized Electricity Markets: Assessment of Operational and Economic Aspects

Farzaneh Abbaspourtorbati, Anneta Matenli

This paper presents the comparison of decentralized and centralized market settings in terms of economic efficiencies, particularly price signals, and operating aspects. The decentralized dispatch consists of an energy auction separated from a contingency ...

Ieee2016

OpenBuildNet Framework for Distributed Co-Simulation of Smart Energy Systems

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Altug Bitlislioglu, Xuan Truong Nghiem

The complexity and diversity of future energy systems will require co-simulation solutions that enable the integration of tools from multiple domains for research and development. We introduce an open-source framework, OpenBuildNet, for distributed co-simu ...

2016

Decentralized Planning of Energy Demand for the Management of Robustness and Discomfort

Karl Aberer, Matteo Vasirani

The robustness of smart grids is challenged by unpredictable power peaks or temporal demand oscillations that can cause blackouts and increase supply costs. Planning of demand can mitigate these effects and increase robustness. However, the impact on consu ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CITY: THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL INNOVATION AS EMOTIONAL COGNITION OF URBAN SPACE

Darío Negueruela Del Castillo

The ubiquitous upsurge of urban protests around the world In the last years seems to contradict the equally growing production of literature that deals with the city as a scene of conflict and a device for the production of segregation, reminding us of the ...

Universidad Nacional de La Plata2014

Collision avoidance in next-generation fiber positioner robotic systems for large survey spectrographs

Denis Gillet, Hannes Bleuler, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Mohamed Bouri, Laleh Makarem, Laurent Frédéric Jenni

Some of the next generation massive spectroscopic survey projects, plan to use thousands of fiber positioner robots packed at a focal plane to quickly move in parallel the fiber-ends from the previous to the next target points. The most direct trajectories ...

2014

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Decentralization

Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness

The Rise of Value Networks in the Power Sector: Reinventing Utilities

Proof-of-Personhood: Redemocratizing Permissionless Cryptocurrencies

Distributed computation of generalized Nash equilibria in quadratic aggregative games with affine coupling constraints

Centralized and Decentralized Electricity Markets: Assessment of Operational and Economic Aspects

On aggregative and mean field games with applications to electricity markets

OpenBuildNet Framework for Distributed Co-Simulation of Smart Energy Systems

Decentralized Planning of Energy Demand for the Management of Robustness and Discomfort

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CITY: THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL INNOVATION AS EMOTIONAL COGNITION OF URBAN SPACE

Collision avoidance in next-generation fiber positioner robotic systems for large survey spectrographs

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Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness

Distributed computation of generalized Nash equilibria in quadratic aggregative games with affine coupling constraints

Centralized and Decentralized Electricity Markets: Assessment of Operational and Economic Aspects

Proof-of-Personhood: Redemocratizing Permissionless Cryptocurrencies

The Rise of Value Networks in the Power Sector: Reinventing Utilities

On aggregative and mean field games with applications to electricity markets

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CITY: THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL INNOVATION AS EMOTIONAL COGNITION OF URBAN SPACE

Collision avoidance in next-generation fiber positioner robotic systems for large survey spectrographs

OpenBuildNet Framework for Distributed Co-Simulation of Smart Energy Systems

Decentralized Planning of Energy Demand for the Management of Robustness and Discomfort