An Optimisation Approach for Long-Term Industrial Investment Planning
Graph Chatbot
Chat with Graph Search
Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.
DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.
In 2005, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey with Chief Risk Officers worldwide across all industries and asked about the biggest threat to their businesses. Interestingly, regulatory risk ranked first. It dominated all other types of risk, ...
In the first place the behavior of (online) traders on markets is analyzed and modeled, and it is shown that the average investor behaves as a mean-variance optimizer in finance. Within this description, transaction costs play a key role in explaining obse ...
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 ...
A method for the analysis of process energy requirements has been used to identify in an early design stage the potential process retrofit measures in an integrated pulp and paper mill. The minimum energy requirements (MER) of the process were computed by ...
In this paper, the decentralized coordination of point-mass autonomous vehicles at intersections using navigation functions is considered. As main contribution, the inertia of the vehicles is taken into account to enable on-board energy optimization for cr ...
A flexible Wireless Sensor Network platform for easier implementation of diverse applications has been developed and deployed at one of the Instituto Superior Técnico - Technical University of Lisbon (IST-TUL) campus. Since its initial deployment in 2007, ...
A huge increase in the amount of data consumed by smartphone users is becoming a serious problem for mobile operators. In three years, mobile data traffic in the AT&T's network rose 5000%. The US operators invest 50 billion dollars in their data networks e ...
A flexible Wireless Sensor Network platform for implementation of diverse applications has been developed and deployed at Instituto Superior Técnico - Technical University of Lisbon (IST-TUL). Since its initial deployment in 2007, this testbed has grown st ...
Résumé : Les procédés agroalimentaires sont des procédés industriels consommateurs de grandes quantités d’énergie, aussi bien de refroidissement que de chauffage. Il est donc intéressant d’optimiser cette consommation. L’analyse pinch, méthode systématique ...
Process integration methods allow one optimizing industrial processes. The main goals are decreasing energy demand and operating costs as well as reducing pollutants emissions. High fuel costs promote installations of heat pumps. In a heat pump, process wa ...
