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District Heating Network Design and Configuration Optimization with Genetic Algorithm

Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2013
In this paper, the configuration of a district heating network which connects from the heating plant to the end users is optimized. Each end user in the network represents a building block.
Hongwei Li, Svend Svendsen
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Disassembly parts selection and analysis for recycling rate and cost by goal programming

Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, 2016
For green supply chains, it is essential to disassemble and recycle end-of-life (EOL) assembled products for material circulation. In order to establish disassembly plants environmentally friendly and economical manner, a disassembly parts selection is ...
Yuki KINOSHITA, Tetsuo YAMADA, Surendra M. GUPTA, Aya ISHIGAKI, Masato INOUE   +4 more
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Systematic formulation of non-functional characteristics of software [PDF]

, 1998
This paper presents NoFun, a notation aimed at dealing with non-functional aspects of software systems at the product level in the component programming framework.
Franch Gutiérrez, Javier
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Generalized unimodal multicriteria optimization

Journal of Numerical Analysis and Approximation Theory, 2006
The aim of this paper is to characterize the sets of weakly-efficient solutions and efficient solutions for multicriteria optimization problem involving generalized unimodal objective functions.
Liana Lupşa, Nicolae Popovici
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Priority-Based Energy Sharing and Management Among Prosumers in Smart Grids

IEEE Access, 2022
Rapid population growth, the ongoing fourth industrial revolution, rising energy demands, global environmental concerns, and uneconomic non-renewable energy drain intensify the need for prosumer communities to bridge the demand-supply gap in electrical ...
Usman Mussadiq, Saeed Ahmed, Noor Gul, Junsu Kim, Su Min Kim   +4 more
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Branching on multi-aggregated variables [PDF]

, 2015
open5siopenGamrath, Gerald; Melchiori, Anna; Berthold, Timo; Gleixner, Ambros M.; Salvagnin, DomenicoGamrath, Gerald; Melchiori, Anna; Berthold, Timo; Gleixner, Ambros M.; Salvagnin ...
A Gilpin, A Mahajan, A Mahajan, AH Land, AL Brearley, D Salvagnin, DL Applegate, DM Ryan, F Kılınç Karzan, G Cornuéjols, G Gamrath, G Mitra, H Mahmoud, J Patel, J Pryor, JH Owen, JM Gauthier, JT Linderoth, M Fischetti, M Fischetti, M Fischetti, M Karamanov, MWP Savelsbergh, RE Bixby, RE Bixby, RJ Dakin, S Heinz, T Achterberg, T Achterberg, T Achterberg, T Achterberg, T Achterberg, T Achterberg, T Berthold, T Koch   +34 more
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A component-based model and language for wireless sensor network applications [PDF]

, 2008
Wireless sensor networks are often used by experts in many different fields to gather data pertinent to their work. Although their expertise may not include software engineering, these users are expected to produce low-level software for a concurrent ...
Balasubramaniam, Dharini, Dearle, Alan, Lewis, Jonathan Peter, Morrison, Ronald   +3 more
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Modelling the Generalized Multi-objective Vehicle Routing Problem Based on Costs

Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Innovations in IT, 2018
The following article addresses a complex combinatorial optimization and integer-programming problem, referred to as the vehicle routing problem, which is typically related to the field of transportation logistics. The aim of the research is to combine a
Viktor Kubil, Vasily Mokhov, Dmitry Grinchenkov   +2 more
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Optimizing conservation planning for multiple cohabiting species.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Conservation planning often involves multiple species occupying large areas including habitat sites with varying characteristics. For a given amount of financial resources, designing a spatially coherent nature reserve system that provides the best ...
Yicheng Wang, Qiaoling Fang, Sahan T M Dissanayake, Hayri Önal   +3 more
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QoS-Aware Middleware for Web Services Composition [PDF]

, 2004
The paradigmatic shift from a Web of manual interactions to a Web of programmatic interactions driven by Web services is creating unprecedented opportunities for the formation of online Business-to-Business (B2B) collaborations.
Benatallah, Boualem, Chang, Henry, Dumas Menjivar, Marlon, Kalagnanam, Jayant, Ngu, Anne H H, Zeng, Liangzhao   +5 more
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