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Information actors beyond modernity and coloniality in times of climate change:A comparative design ethnography on the making of monitors for sustainable futures in Curaçao and Amsterdam, between 2019-2022
In his dissertation, Mr. Goilo developed a cutting-edge theoretical framework for an Anthropology of Information. This study compares information in the context of modernity in Amsterdam and coloniality in Curaçao through the making process of monitors and develops five ways to understand how information can act towards sustainable futures. The research also discusses how the two contexts, that is modernity and coloniality, have been in informational symbiosis for centuries which is producing negative informational side effects within the age of the Anthropocene. By exploring the modernity-coloniality symbiosis of information, the author explains how scholars, policymakers, and data-analysts can act through historical and structural roots of contemporary global inequities related to the production and distribution of information. Ultimately, the five theses propose conditions towards the collective production of knowledge towards a more sustainable planet
Multidisciplinary perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the law
This open access book presents an interdisciplinary, multi-authored, edited collection of chapters on Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and the Law. AI technology has come to play a central role in the modern data economy. Through a combination of increased computing power, the growing availability of data and the advancement of algorithms, AI has now become an umbrella term for some of the most transformational technological breakthroughs of this age. The importance of AI stems from both the opportunities that it offers and the challenges that it entails. While AI applications hold the promise of economic growth and efficiency gains, they also create significant risks and uncertainty. The potential and perils of AI have thus come to dominate modern discussions of technology and ethics – and although AI was initially allowed to largely develop without guidelines or rules, few would deny that the law is set to play a fundamental role in shaping the future of AI. As the debate over AI is far from over, the need for rigorous analysis has never been greater. This book thus brings together contributors from different fields and backgrounds to explore how the law might provide answers to some of the most pressing questions raised by AI. An outcome of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law and its interdisciplinary working group on Law and Artificial Intelligence, it includes contributions by leading scholars in the fields of technology, ethics and the law.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
LIPIcs, Volume 251, ITCS 2023, Complete Volume
LIPIcs, Volume 251, ITCS 2023, Complete Volum
Discussion on drivers and proposition of approaches to support the transition of traditional electricity consumers to prosumers
In recent years, traditional power systems have undergone a significant transition, mainly
related to the massive penetration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). More specifically, the
transformation of residential consumers into prosumers has been challenging to the traditional
operation of electricity markets. This transition brings new challenges and opportunities to
the power system, leading to new Business Model (BM). One widely discussed change is
related to a consumer-centric or prosumer-driven approach, promoting increased participation
of small consumers in power systems. The present thesis aims at discussing the recent BMs as
enablers of the increasing prosumers’ role in the energy market and power system worldwide,
deepening the discussion with a holistic view of the Brazilian context. To do so, it defines
the main features of prosumers and their general related regulation as well as possible market
designs within power systems. Moreover, the work intends to contribute to the knowledge,
identification and understanding of the main regulatory barriers and enablers for the development
of those BMs in the Brazilian energy market. In addition, it discusses enabling technologies to
properly create the conditions that sustain new prosumer-driven markets. Then, it presents a
comprehensive review of existing and innovative BMs and a discussion on their future roles in
modern power systems and, in the Brazilian regulatory framework seeking to guide the decisions
for the country to develop its political and regulatory environment in the future. Moreover, a
set of recommendations for promoting these BMs in the power system worldwide is provided
along with policy recommendations to promote prosumers aggregation in the Brazilian energy
sector. An important conclusion is that, even though economically possible, not all innovative
BMs can spread around the world due to regulatory issues. Seeking to further explore one of
the prosumer-driven approaches presented and the challenges imposed by this innovative BM,
a study of energy and reserve markets based on the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) structure is carried out.
This structure is very promising for the prosumers’ promotion but presents some challenges for
the network operation. A critical challenge is to ensure that network constraints are not violated
due to energy trades between peers and neither due to the use of reserve capacity. Therefore,
two methodologies are proposed. First, is proposed a three-step approach (P2PTDF), using
Topological Distribution Factors (TDF) to penalize peers responsible for violations that may
occur in the network constraints, ensuring a feasible solution. Second, it is proposed a new
integrated prosumers-DSO approach applied in P2P energy and reserve tradings that also ensures
the feasibility of both energy and reserve transactions under network constraints. The proposed
approach includes the estimation of reserve requirements based on the RES uncertain behavior
from historical generation data, which allows identifying RES patterns. The proposed models
are assessed through a case study that uses a 14-bus system, under the technical and economic
criteria. The results show that the approaches can ensure a feasible network operation.Nos últimos anos, os sistemas tradicionais de energia passaram por uma transição significativa, principalmente relacionada à penetração massiva de fontes de energia renováveis (do
inglês, Renewable energy sources-RES). Mais especificamente, a transformação de consumidores
residenciais em prosumidores tem desafiado a atual operação do mercado de energia elétrica.
Essa transição traz novos desafios e oportunidades para o sistema elétrico, levando a novos
modelos de negócios (do inglês, Business Models-BM). Uma mudança amplamente discutida
está relacionada a uma abordagem centrada no consumidor ou direcionada ao prossumidor,
promovendo maior participação de pequenos consumidores nos sistemas de energia. A presente
tese tem como objetivo discutir os recentes BMs como facilitadores do crescente papel dos
prosumidores no mercado de energia e no sistema elétrico mundial, aprofundando a discussão
com uma visão holística do contexto brasileiro. Para tanto, define as principais características
dos prosumidores e sua regulamentação geral relacionada, bem como possíveis designs de
mercado dentro dos sistemas de energia. Além disso, o trabalho pretende contribuir para o
conhecimento, identificação e compreensão das principais barreiras regulatórias e facilitadoras
para o desenvolvimento desses BMs no mercado brasileiro de energia. Assim como, discutir as
tecnologias importantes para criar adequadamente as condições que sustentam novos mercados
orientados ao consumidor final. Em seguida, apresenta uma revisão abrangente dos BMs existentes e inovadores e uma discussão sobre seus papéis futuros nos sistemas de energia modernos
e, no quadro regulatório brasileiro, buscando orientar as decisões para que o país desenvolva
seu ambiente político e regulatório no futuro. Além disso, um conjunto de recomendações
para promover esses BMs no sistema de energia em todo o mundo é fornecido juntamente com
recomendações de políticas para promover a agregação de prosumidores no setor de energia
brasileiro. Uma conclusão importante é que, mesmo sendo economicamente possível, nem todos
os BMs inovadores podem se espalhar pelo mundo devido a obstáculos regulatórias. Buscando
explorar ainda mais uma das abordagens orientadas ao prosumidor apresentadas e os desafios
impostos por este BM inovador, é realizado um estudo dos mercados de energia e de reserva com
base na estrutura ponto a ponto (do inglês, peer-to-peer-P2P). Esta estrutura é muito promissora
para a promoção dos prosumidores mas apresenta alguns desafios para o funcionamento da rede.
Um desafio crítico é garantir que as restrições da rede não sejam violadas devido a negociações
de energia entre pares e nem devido ao uso da capacidade de reserva. Portanto, duas metodologias são propostas. Primeiramente, é proposta uma abordagem em três passos (P2PTDF),
utilizando Fatores de Distribuição Topológica (do inglês, Topological Distribution Factors-TDF
) para penalizar os peers responsáveis por violações que possam ocorrer nas restrições da rede,
garantindo uma solução viável. Em segundo lugar, é proposta uma nova abordagem integrada
de prosumidores-DSO aplicada em transações P2P de energia e reserva que também garante a
viabilidade de transações de energia e reserva sob restrições de rede. A abordagem proposta
inclui a estimativa dos requisitos de reserva com base no comportamento incerto da RES a partir
de dados históricos de geração, o que permite identificar padrões de RES. Os modelos propostos
são avaliados através de um estudo de caso que utiliza um sistema de 14 barras, sob os critérios
técnico e econômico. Os resultados mostram que as abordagens podem garantir uma operação
de rede viável abrangendo energia e mercados de reserva
2023-2024 Catalog
The 2023-2024 Governors State University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog is a comprehensive listing of current information regarding:Degree RequirementsCourse OfferingsUndergraduate and Graduate Rules and Regulation
AI: Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence
The emergence of artificial intelligence has triggered enthusiasm and promise of boundless opportunities as much as uncertainty about its limits. The contributions to this volume explore the limits of AI, describe the necessary conditions for its functionality, reveal its attendant technical and social problems, and present some existing and potential solutions. At the same time, the contributors highlight the societal and attending economic hopes and fears, utopias and dystopias that are associated with the current and future development of artificial intelligence
Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion. Collected Works, Volume 5
This fifth volume on Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion collects theoretical and applied contributions of researchers working in different fields of applications and in mathematics, and is available in open-access. The collected contributions of this volume have either been published or presented after disseminating the fourth volume in 2015 in international conferences, seminars, workshops and journals, or they are new. The contributions of each part of this volume are chronologically ordered.
First Part of this book presents some theoretical advances on DSmT, dealing mainly with modified Proportional Conflict Redistribution Rules (PCR) of combination with degree of intersection, coarsening techniques, interval calculus for PCR thanks to set inversion via interval analysis (SIVIA), rough set classifiers, canonical decomposition of dichotomous belief functions, fast PCR fusion, fast inter-criteria analysis with PCR, and improved PCR5 and PCR6 rules preserving the (quasi-)neutrality of (quasi-)vacuous belief assignment in the fusion of sources of evidence with their Matlab codes.
Because more applications of DSmT have emerged in the past years since the apparition of the fourth book of DSmT in 2015, the second part of this volume is about selected applications of DSmT mainly in building change detection, object recognition, quality of data association in tracking, perception in robotics, risk assessment for torrent protection and multi-criteria decision-making, multi-modal image fusion, coarsening techniques, recommender system, levee characterization and assessment, human heading perception, trust assessment, robotics, biometrics, failure detection, GPS systems, inter-criteria analysis, group decision, human activity recognition, storm prediction, data association for autonomous vehicles, identification of maritime vessels, fusion of support vector machines (SVM), Silx-Furtif RUST code library for information fusion including PCR rules, and network for ship classification.
Finally, the third part presents interesting contributions related to belief functions in general published or presented along the years since 2015. These contributions are related with decision-making under uncertainty, belief approximations, probability transformations, new distances between belief functions, non-classical multi-criteria decision-making problems with belief functions, generalization of Bayes theorem, image processing, data association, entropy and cross-entropy measures, fuzzy evidence numbers, negator of belief mass, human activity recognition, information fusion for breast cancer therapy, imbalanced data classification, and hybrid techniques mixing deep learning with belief functions as well
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