Ying Xie and Yisheng Liu
Environmental degradation is significantly influenced by the construction industry. Energy-efficient retrofitting of existing office buildings has become an effective means of reducing building energy consumption. Implementation of retrofits requires the...
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Kotaro Matsuda, Shuhei Denzumi and Kunihiko Sadakane
Zero-suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams (ZDDs) are data structures for representing set families in a compressed form. With ZDDs, many valuable operations on set families can be done in time polynomial in ZDD size. In some cases, however, the size of ZD...
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Alberto Cocaña-Fernández, Emilio San José Guiote, Luciano Sánchez and José Ranilla
High Performance Computing Clusters (HPCCs) are common platforms for solving both up-to-date challenges and high-dimensional problems faced by IT service providers. Nonetheless, the use of HPCCs carries a substantial and growing economic and environmenta...
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Alfonso González-Briones, Fernando De La Prieta, Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu and Juan M. Corchado
This article reviews the state-of-the-art developments in Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) and their application to energy optimization problems. This methodology and related tools have contributed to changes in various paradigms used in energy optimization. B...
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Alberto Cocaña-Fernández, Luciano Sánchez and José Ranilla
As data and supercomputing centres increase their performance to improve service quality and target more ambitious challenges every day, their carbon footprint also continues to grow, and has already reached the magnitude of the aviation industry. Also, ...
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