Energy management under policy and technology uncertainty

Sustainable Cities and Military Installations

“…Collaboration is championed over expertise in P2P urbanism [26] and the closely related open-source architecture movement [73]. P2P urbanism argues that the sitespecificity, accumulated knowledge, and iterative processes of vernacular design and technology bring local, contextual knowledge and experience to the design and evolution of cities that central planning cannot.…”

“…These geometric patterns and characteristics -present in nature and in some vernacular urban fabric -include size distributions scaled according to the inverse power law [76], fractal scaling, mathematical symmetries, and structural invariants [75]. Open source architecture seeks to update vernacular design with cutting-edge technology, calling for crowd-funding, creative commons licensing and blueprints, universal and open standards, open source software, mass customization, and feedback from embedded sensors [73]. The presence of such geometries in vernacular architecture and urbanism suggests the importance of self-organization, of bottom-up processes.…”

“…Dreyfus describes understanding the processes used by experts to access and apply their expertise as being inaccessible, even to the expert themselves [73]. Therefore, we turn to using NDM's empirical orientation discussed earlier; within this framework Klein and Hoffman [74] were able to make several useful observations of the characteristics of experts' decision-making processes.…”

Conceptual design of a municipal energy and environmental system as an efficient basis for advanced energy planning

“…In the case of the energy management system, there were various case studies for the implementation of the energy system in the buildings [21,22] or various companies [14,23,24]. The analysis of the energy management with the policy implications was also conducted previously [25]. Energy and environmental managements have been presented for specific objects or industrial facilities, but concepts of advanced combined energy and environmental management systems have been missing for entire municipalities to integrate the benefits of the united management system.…”

Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis for Evaluation of Combined Heat and Power Units

“…uncertainty of the criteria performance values (PVs) and fuzzy uncertainty related to subjective judgments and characteristic of the DMs [23,24] as well as policy and technology uncertainties [25] are very common and should be addressed explicitly [22,26].…”