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Decision making in electricity markets under uncertainty has worldwide gained attention due to an increasing number of uncertain parameters associated to technology developments and market evolution. Hence, the market operator faces new challenges pertaini ...
EPFL2017Application of the cost-optimal methodology to urban renewal projects at the territorial scale based on statistical data—A case study in Spain
Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno
As tomorrow’s cities are already largely built, many strategies stress the importance of urban renewalprocesses to address current energy issues. This paper focuses on the Spanish residential building stockbuilt until 2001, which has a low level of energy ...
2017Rental housing and the urban poor: understanding the growth and production of rental housing in Brazilian favelas
Rental housing is increasingly becoming the key shelter option for the poor living in and moving into cities, including those living in informal settlements. The paper revisits the production of rental housing in informal settlements within the new contour ...
2016Centralized 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 ...
Ieee2016Aesthetics – as a dimension of society and a component of spatial theory
The title of this paper suggests three things. First, that society’s issues are multidimensional i.e. society being a multidimensional system in a way that each dimension undergo the totality of society’s. These dimensions hold together social systems of v ...
2016Urbaniser les Alpes suisses
Regional planning, especially in the Alps, is high on the current news agenda in Switzer- land, more so than ever before. The skiing boom has driven massive urbanisation in mountain areas, primarily in locations at altitudes of 1400m or higher. For several ...
EPFL2016A Software to Optimize Economic and Ecological Efficiency of Small Hydropower Plants
Paolo Perona, Amin Niayifar, Stefania Tron
The software we propose enables users to test several water allocation rules (both static and dynamic) for a specific small hydropower plant and to evaluate them both in term of economic and ecological benefits. For each water allocation rule the energy pr ...
2016Scarcity Mitigation and Risk-Averse Clearing Model in the Swiss Reserve Market
This paper presents a real-world application of stochastic programming in the Swiss hydro-based system. The seasonal hydrological conditions may cause insufficient market volume to an extent that security criteria (i.e., the criteria determining of reserve ...
Ieee2016Digital Language Diversity: Seeking the Value Proposition
This paper is a response to the CCURL workshop call for discussion about issues pertaining to the creation of an Alliance for Digital Language Diversity. As a global project, Kamusi has been building collaborative relationships with numerous organizations, ...
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