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EPFL2018

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EDAA/ACM/IEEE Press2016

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Wiley-Blackwell2016

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Factory planning system considering energy-efficient process under cloud manufacturing

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Cloud computing sets to make a change in business between enterprises over the Internet based on services providing dynamically reconfigurable and virtualized networks. It is difficult for an aircraft manufacturer to consider the performance and status of ...

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Principe d'alimentation par convertisseurs multiniveaux à stockage intégré : application aux accélérateurs de particules

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Facilities operating in cycles, such as particles accelerators, require pulsed power. Directly drawing this pulsed power from the industrial network is generally not acceptable. A system with a local energy storage system lessens the impact on the network. ...

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