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Multiple Concentric Gating Traffic Control in Large-Scale Urban Networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mehmet Yildirimoglu, Mehdi Keyvan Ekbatani

A new gating strategy for concentric cities based on the notion of the macroscopic or network fundamental diagram and the feedback-based gating concept is introduced and successfully tested. Different regions of large-scale urban networks may experience co ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

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

Characterizing the Optimal Incentives for Pervasive Demand Response

Karl Aberer, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya, Matteo Vasirani

Demand response (DR) emerges as one of the cheapest and greenest solutions to match supply and demand in the electricity sector. Compared to price-based DR, incentive-based DR is considered to be more promising, since it does not require consumers to monit ...

EPFL2014

Crowdsourcing Behavioral Incentives for Pervasive Demand Response

Karl Aberer, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya, Matteo Vasirani

Demand response (DR) refers to a set of dynamic demand mechanisms that aim to manage electricity consumption in response to supply-side signals. DR can be used for the purpose of demand regulation (e.g. to maintain voltage and frequency within safety limit ...

EPFL2014

iDR: Consumer and Grid Friendly Demand Response System

Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Peak demand is a major challenge for power utilities across the world. Demand Response (DR) is considered to be effective in addressing peak demand by altering consumption of end consumers, so as to match supply capability. However, an efficient DR system ...

2014

Measuring the Effects of Economic Crisis on Users' Perceptions of Public Transport Quality

Dimitrios Efthymiou

Research was conducted to measure the effects of the economic crisis on public transport quality, user satisfaction, and transit demand. The survey used in this research extended a research effort that began in 2008; the survey aimed to analyze the variabi ...

2014

The Ideal Train Timetabling Problem

Michel Bierlaire, Tomas Robenek

The aim of this paper is to analyze and to improve the current planning process of the passenger railway service. At first, the state-of-the-art in research is presented. However, given the recent changes in legislature allowing competitors in the railway ...

2014

Frequency capping in online advertising

Moran Feldman

We study the following online problem. There are n advertisers. Each advertiser has a total demand and a value for each supply unit. Supply units arrive one by one in an online fashion, and must be allocated to an agent immediately. Each unit is associated ...

Springer2014

Scientific Demand for CAMEA

Paul Gregory Freeman

To document the enthusiasm for the CAMEA spectrometer, we provide in this document: i) Letters of support from leading scientists representing several of the fields of science that will be enabled by CAMEA. ii) A list of scientists who wished to be listed ...

2014

An Integrated Microrobotic Platform for On-Demand, Targeted Therapeutic Interventions

Mahmut Selman Sakar

The presented microrobotic platform combines together the advantages of self-folding NIR light sensitive polymer bilayers, magnetic alginate microbeads, and a 3D manipulation system, to propose a solution for targeted, on-demand drug and cell delivery. Fir ...

2014