BUILDING A BASELINE FOR PLANT CONSERVATION

Energy Conservation in Building

The building sector accumulates approximately a third of the final energy consumption. Consequently, the improvement of the energy efficiency in buildings has become an essential instrument in the energy policies to ensure the energy supply in the mid to long term moreover is the most cost-effective strategy available for reducing carbon dioxide emissions This paper is studying the main objecti...

A Feasible Baseline Architecture for Building and Evaluating Distributed Systems

Although distributed networks and systems are widely deployed, an effective overall benchmark architecture is still lacking. Recently we defined and studied the fat-stack network architecture and found that it is both efficient and scalable to distributed systems of various scales. In precedent work, we theoretically proved that the fat-stack is universal by measure of routing efficiency with a...

Fast Downward Stone Soup: A Baseline for Building Planner Portfolios

Fast Downward Stone Soup is a sequential portfolio planner that uses various heuristics and search algorithms that have been implemented in the Fast Downward planning system. We present a simple general method for concocting “planner soups”, sequential portfolios of planning algorithms, and describe the actual recipes used for Fast Downward Stone Soup in the sequential optimization and sequenti...

feasibility analysis of a combined cooling-heatingpower and desalted water plant for a non-residential building

a preliminary design of a polygeneration system (combined cooling-heating-power plant with a desalination unit), is proposed for a tourist resort located on the spanish coast. the well-known trigenerationconcept is enhanced to the included production of desalted water, considering for the purpose three different options: reverse osmosis (rodp), multi-effect (medp) and a combination of rodp and ...

Sampling for Effective Ex Situ Plant Conservation