Thermocline thermal storage modeling towards its predictive optimal management

Thermal Analysis of Solar Thermal Energy Storage in a Molten-Salt Thermocline

An Integrated Thermal and Mechanical Investigation of Molten-Salt Thermocline Energy Storage

Thermal Modeling of Hybrid Storage Clusters

There is a lack of thermal models for storage clusters; most existing thermal models do not take into account the utilization of hard drives (HDDs) and solid state disks (SSDs). To address this problem, we build a thermal model for hybrid storage clusters that are comprised of HDDs and SSDs. We start this study by generating the thermal profiles of hard drives and solid state disks. The profili...

Towards Optimal Scalability in Predictive Video Coding

We propose a method for eecient SNR scalabil-ity in predictive video coding which overcomes the known fundamental diiculties due to the prediction loop. The method is generally applicable to any scal-able predictive coder but a special emphasis is given in this paper to standard DCT-based video compression. The compression eeciency of the enhancement-layer is substantially improved by casting t...

Position Paper: Towards Comprehensible Predictive Modeling

Predictive modeling applications have a number of concerns. While predictive accuracy is often the primary concern, other issues such as efficiency and robustness are often considered. It is my position that comprehensibility is another concern in predictive modeling applications, and is often an important one. However, without an understanding of comprehensibility in predictive modeling, it is...