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Energy-efficient building management via model predictive control
The growing world population and energy consumption, along with the depletion of
fossil energy resources and increasing concern regarding the pollution of the environment, make the
world-energy problem the largest challenge for technology in the forthcoming decades [1]. Distributed
generation could play a major role in the technological changes of the new electricity service paradigm.
The use of localized energy sources is only one of the faces of energy management in buildings. A large
part of the produced energy is used for heating and cooling systems, in order to maintain acceptable
levels of comfort for the occupants of the apartments (hereafter referred to as "users"). Therefore, at a
local level, there is a need for the definition and the testing of intelligent algorithms that can automatically
manage distributed energy sources, at the same time taking into account the management of heating/
cooling systems
Energy-efficient building management via model predictive control
The growing world population and energy consumption, along with the depletion of
fossil energy resources and increasing concern regarding the pollution of the environment, make the
world-energy problem the largest challenge for technology in the forthcoming decades [1]. Distributed
generation could play a major role in the technological changes of the new electricity service paradigm.
The use of localized energy sources is only one of the faces of energy management in buildings. A large
part of the produced energy is used for heating and cooling systems, in order to maintain acceptable
levels of comfort for the occupants of the apartments (hereafter referred to as "users"). Therefore, at a
local level, there is a need for the definition and the testing of intelligent algorithms that can automatically
manage distributed energy sources, at the same time taking into account the management of heating/
cooling systems
Laplace transformations and sine-Gordon type integrable PDE
It is well known that the Laplace cascade method is an effective tool for
constructing solutions to linear equations of hyperbolic type, as well as
nonlinear equations of the Liouville type. The connection between the Laplace
method and soliton equations of hyperbolic type remains less studied. The
article shows that the Laplace cascade also has important applications in the
theory of hyperbolic equations of the soliton type. Laplace's method provides a
simple way to construct such fundamental objects related to integrability
theory as the recursion operator, the Lax pair and Dubrovin-type equations,
allowing one to find algebro-geometric solutions. As an application of this
approach, previously unknown recursion operators and Lax pairs are found for
two nonlinear integrable equations of the sine-Gordon type
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