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SYMBRION
Others partners: Almende, Netherlands; Universität Graz, Austria; Universität Karlsruhe, Germany; Vlaams Interuniversitair Instituut Voor biotechnologie VZW, Blegium; University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom; Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany; University of York, United Kingdom; Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; Inria, France.
See also: http://symbrion.eu
MASH
Others partners: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; Weierstrass-Institut fur Angewandte Analysis Und Stochastik, Part of Furschungsverbund Berlin E.V, Germany; Inria, France; Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke V Praze,Czech Republic.
See also: http://mash-project.eu/
Abstract: The Mash project is about massive crowd-sourcing. It is based on several artificial applications. We however used the codes also for our favorite applications, because the original Mash applications have nearly no user, which make it hard to have massive crowd-sourcing; for our applications, we have a moderate number of users, but at least they are motivated. Our contributions are twofolds:
Building solvers on top of existing expert solvers; this is quite related to our Metis platform (Section 5.1 ) and our work on Minesweeper and on the mixing of direct policy search and Monte-Carlo Tree Search;
Adapting solvers for cases in which we can not “undo” on the problem, i.e. if we apply a decision, we can not come back to the previous time step; this makes planning much harder and slower. This is developped in [63] .
CitInES
Defi: Design of a decision support tool for sustainable, reliable and cost-effective e
Others partners: Artelys (http://www.artelys.com ), Inescp (http://www2.inescporto.pt/ , Portugal), Ait (http://www.ait.ac.at/ , Austria), Armines (Ecole des Mines, Paris http://www.ensmp.fr ), Tupras (http://www.tupras.com.tr , Turkey), Ervet (http://www.ervet.it/ , Italy), Schneider (http://www.schneider-electric.com ), Cesena (Italy), Bologna (Italy)
See also: http://www.citines.com
Abstract: According to OECD, 67% of world energy is used by cities and 70% of CO2 emissions come from cities. Therefore, optimizing urban energy investments is a key challenge for reducing polluting emissions and financial exposition to fuel price uncertainties. However, the definition of a sustainable, reliable and cost-effective energy strategy requires to simulate the whole energy chain (consumption, transport, distribution, storage, production) with different types of energy (electricity, gas, heat, wind, waste, etc.) and to assess the environmental and financial impacts of various long-term scenarios (fuel prices, consumption scenarios, etc.).
Local authorities facing this issue have today only partial answers to these questions (simulation of a given type of energy, of a part of the energy chain only or without any long-term risk assessment) and lack a global analysis.
The goal of the CitInES project is to design and develop decision-support software to help local authorities / industries to :
Assess and compare energy strategies through detailed energy chain simulations
Optimize local energy strategy to cost-effectively integrate green energy and reduce CO2 emissions
Define robust energy schemes to face fuel price uncertainties.
The CitInES project is financed by the European Commission, under 7th Framework Programme. It gathers:
4 high-level research centers (INESCP for electric system modelling, AIT for building and energy infrastructure planning, ARMINES for long-term energy strategies and Inria for optimization algorithms)
1 SME specialized in decision-support software in the energy field (Artelys, leader of the consortium)
2 well-known industrial groups (Schneider Electric for its expertise in electric systems; TUPRAS, Turkish refineries as end-user) and 1 national company (ERVET for its expertise in energy processes)
EGI-Inspire
Title: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe
Others partners: 50 institutions, coordinator for France: CNRS.
See also: http://www.egi.eu
Abstract: The EGI-InSPIRE project supports the transition from a project-based system to a sustainable pan-European e-Infrastructure, by supporting 'grids' of high-performance computing (HPC) and high-throughput computing (HTC) resources. EGI-InSPIRE supports the establishment of a sustainable model for a European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) that integrates resources contributed by national and domain-specific resource providers. Key to this process is a new organisation, EGI.eu, coordinator on behalf of the European resource provider community of the EGI-InSPIRE project. The EGI is a federation of independent national and domain specific resource providers, who support specific research communities and international collaborators both within Europe and worldwide.
Collaborations in European Programs, except FP7
Project title: Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems
Other partners: see http://www.cost804.org
Abstract: The main objective of the Action is to foster original research initiatives addressing energy awareness/saving and to increase the overall impact of European research in the field of energy efficiency in distributed systems.