15 research outputs found
The Economics of Water : Rules and Institutions
This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water management. By illustrating the interplay between the hydrological cycle and the rules and institutions that govern today’s water allocation policies, the authors develop a modern perspective on water management. Moreover, the book presents an in-depth assessment of the political and ethical dimensions of water management and its institutional embeddedness, by discussing distribution issues and issues of the enforceability of human rights in managing water resources. Given its scope, the book will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of economics and engineering, as well as practitioners in the water sector, seeking a deeper understanding of economic approaches to the study of water management.TU Berlin, Open-Access-Mittel - 202
The Economics of Water
This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water management. By illustrating the interplay between the hydrological cycle and the rules and institutions that govern today’s water allocation policies, the authors develop a modern perspective on water management. Moreover, the book presents an in-depth assessment of the political and ethical dimensions of water management and its institutional embeddedness, by discussing distribution issues and issues of the enforceability of human rights in managing water resources. Given its scope, the book will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of economics and engineering, as well as practitioners in the water sector, seeking a deeper understanding of economic approaches to the study of water management
The Economics of Water
This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water management. By illustrating the interplay between the hydrological cycle and the rules and institutions that govern today’s water allocation policies, the authors develop a modern perspective on water management. Moreover, the book presents an in-depth assessment of the political and ethical dimensions of water management and its institutional embeddedness, by discussing distribution issues and issues of the enforceability of human rights in managing water resources. Given its scope, the book will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of economics and engineering, as well as practitioners in the water sector, seeking a deeper understanding of economic approaches to the study of water management
Uncertain Multi-Criteria Optimization Problems
Most real-world search and optimization problems naturally involve multiple criteria as objectives. Generally, symmetry, asymmetry, and anti-symmetry are basic characteristics of binary relationships used when modeling optimization problems. Moreover, the notion of symmetry has appeared in many articles about uncertainty theories that are employed in multi-criteria problems. Different solutions may produce trade-offs (conflicting scenarios) among different objectives. A better solution with respect to one objective may compromise other objectives. There are various factors that need to be considered to address the problems in multidisciplinary research, which is critical for the overall sustainability of human development and activity. In this regard, in recent decades, decision-making theory has been the subject of intense research activities due to its wide applications in different areas. The decision-making theory approach has become an important means to provide real-time solutions to uncertainty problems. Theories such as probability theory, fuzzy set theory, type-2 fuzzy set theory, rough set, and uncertainty theory, available in the existing literature, deal with such uncertainties. Nevertheless, the uncertain multi-criteria characteristics in such problems have not yet been explored in depth, and there is much left to be achieved in this direction. Hence, different mathematical models of real-life multi-criteria optimization problems can be developed in various uncertain frameworks with special emphasis on optimization problems
Simplifying Internet of Things (IoT) Data Processing Work ow Composition and Orchestration in Edge and Cloud Datacenters
Ph. D. Thesis.Internet of Things (IoT) allows the creation of virtually in nite connections into a
global array of distributed intelligence. Identifying a suitable con guration of devices,
software and infrastructures in the context of user requirements are fundamental to
the success of delivering IoT applications. However, the design, development, and
deployment of IoT applications are complex and complicated due to various unwarranted
challenges. For instance, addressing the IoT application users' subjective and
objective opinions with IoT work
ow instances remains a challenge for the design of
a more holistic approach. Moreover, the complexity of IoT applications increased exponentially
due to the heterogeneous nature of the Edge/Cloud services, utilised to
lower latency in data transformation and increase reusability.
To address the composition and orchestration of IoT applications in the cloud and
edge environments, this thesis presents IoT-CANE (Context Aware Recommendation
System) as a high-level uni ed IoT resource con guration recommendation system
which embodies a uni ed conceptual model capturing con guration, constraint and
infrastructure features of Edge/Cloud together with IoT devices. Second, I present
an IoT work
ow composition system (IoTWC) to allow IoT users to pipeline their
work
ows with proposed IoT work
ow activity abstract patterns. IoTWC leverages
the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to compose the multi-level IoT work
ow that
satis es the requirements of any IoT application. Besides, the users are be tted with
recommended IoT work
ow con gurations using an AHP based multi-level composition
framework. The proposed IoTWC is validated on a user case study to evaluate
the coverage of IoT work
ow activity abstract patterns and a real-world scenario for
smart buildings. Last, I propose a fault-tolerant automation deployment IoT framework
which captures the IoT work
ow plan from IoTWC to deploy in multi-cloud
edge environment with a fault-tolerance mechanism. The e ciency and e ectiveness
of the proposed fault-tolerant system are evaluated in a real-time water
ooding data
monitoring and management applicatio
D4.3 Final Report on Network-Level Solutions
Research activities in METIS reported in this document focus on proposing solutions
to the network-level challenges of future wireless communication networks. Thereby, a large variety of scenarios is considered and a set of technical concepts is proposed to serve the needs envisioned for the 2020 and beyond.
This document provides the final findings on several network-level aspects and groups of
solutions that are considered essential for designing future 5G solutions. Specifically, it
elaborates on:
-Interference management and resource allocation schemes
-Mobility management and robustness enhancements
-Context aware approaches
-D2D and V2X mechanisms
-Technology components focused on clustering
-Dynamic reconfiguration enablers
These novel network-level technology concepts are evaluated against requirements defined
by METIS for future 5G systems. Moreover, functional enablers which can support the
solutions mentioned aboveare proposed.
We find that the network level solutions and technology components developed during the course of METIS complement the lower layer technology components and thereby effectively contribute to meeting 5G requirements and targets.Aydin, O.; Valentin, S.; Ren, Z.; Botsov, M.; Lakshmana, TR.; Sui, Y.; Sun, W.... (2015). D4.3 Final Report on Network-Level Solutions. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/7675