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Producing Policy-relevant Science by Enhancing Robustness and Model Integration for the Assessment of Global Environmental Change

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Santosh Ram Joshi, Alain Haurie

We use the flexible model coupling technology known as the bespoke framework generator to link established existing modules representing dynamics in the global economy (GEMINI-E3), the energy system (TIAM-WORLD), the global and regional climate system (MAG ...

2019

Dynamic prediction-based relocation policies in one-way station-based carsharing systems with complete journey reservations

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Burak Boyaci, Mor Kaspi, Martin Jean Marie Joseph Repoux

In this paper, we study the operations of a one-way station-based carsharing system implementing a complete journey reservation policy. We consider the percentage of served demand as a primary performance measure and analyze the effect of several dynamic s ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

A survey on policy search algorithms for learning robot controllers in a handful of trials

Sylvain Calinon

Most policy search algorithms require thousands of training episodes to find an effective policy, which is often infeasible with a physical robot. This survey article focuses on the extreme other end of the spectrum: how can a robot adapt with only a handf ...

2019

The diversity of moral preferences: Evolutionary foundations and some implications in environmental economics

Boris Thurm

Empirical evidence suggests that there exists substantial heterogeneity in individuals' social preferences. However, there is little theoretical basis supporting this observation and economic models often assume that all individuals are identical. Hence, t ...

EPFL2019

Distributed Value-Function Learning with Linear Convergence Rates

Ali H. Sayed, Kun Yuan, Lucas Cesar Eduardo Cassano

In this paper we develop a fully decentralized algorithm for policy evaluation with off-policy learning and linear function approximation. The proposed algorithm is of the variance reduced kind and achieves linear convergence with O(1) memory requirements. ...

IEEE2019

The institutional challenges of scaling-up housing retrofit: the Swiss cities of Basel and Sion

Eghbal Arian Mahzouni

Purpose This paper aims to discuss the nexus between two societal (sub) systems of housing and energy supply to shed new light on the key institutional barriers to socio-technical energy transition in the built environment. The key research question is to ...

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD2019

PROGRESS TOWARDS THE RESOURCE REVOLUTION

Based on the key outputs of the WRF 2017 conference and the work performed during and after the review process in 2018 we are proud to announce this book entitled ‘Progress Towards the Resource Revolution’ which presents innovations and approaches that sup ...

World Resources Forum2019

Digital Governance Drivers and Challenges for Resilience in AI-Driven Innovation of Public Sector

Gianluigi Viscusi, Gianluca Carlo Misuraca

Digitalization is not anymore an emergent phenomenon but the actual shape of everyday life interactions and transactions (Degryse 2016; Tilson et al. 2010; Yoo 2013). Compared to the private sector, where businesses have deployed initiatives to change thei ...

2019

Welfare effects of technology-based climate policies in liberalized electricity markets: seeing beyond total system cost

Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer, Sophie Maire

This paper is a contribution to assessing the Swiss energy transition, with an emphasis on the consequences of decommissioning the nuclear power plants for the electricity market and the whole economy. We expect that increased renewable generation and dema ...

2019

The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field

Franziska Meinherz, Rafael Laurenti

The application of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies is increasingly advocated based on the premise that this allows to analyse consumption as a social phenomenon. Consequently, the applications of social practi ...

2019

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