Erratum to: Tackling environmental impacts in simple trigeneration systems operating under variable conditions

Modeling simple trigeneration systems for the distribution of environmental loads

Integration of thermoeconomics and Life Cycle Analysis was carried out within the framework of an Environmental Management Information System. This combined approach identified where environmental loads were generated and tracked environmental loads throughout the system, allowing for a more precise understanding of operational activities. A trigeneration system was modeled, providing electrici...

Growing Quality Forages under Variable Environmental Conditions

Forage age and maturity generally have a larger influence on forage quality than environmental factors. Plant environment, however, cause deviations in forage quality even when harvested at the same maturity. Temperature usually has greater influence on forage quality than other environmental factors. Although increasing temperature normally hastens maturity, the primary effect may be through i...

Variable operating conditions in distributed systems: modeling and evaluation

Performance and dependability evaluation plays a key role in the design of a broad range of systems, especially in the case strict requirements need to be met. This is particularly challenging in distributed contexts, where several components may interact among themselves influencing each other. In this paper, we present an analytical method that allows the study of a class of systems where dif...

Impacts of Changing Environmental Conditions on Transport Systems

Multi-modal network protocols : adapting to highly variable operating conditions

Most network protocols are uni-modal: they employ a single set of algorithms that allows them to cope well only within a narrow range of operating conditions. This rigid design renders these protocols inefficient in the face of widely varying operating environments or in conditions different from the ones for which they are optimized. Such uni-modal protocols have great difficulty in the mobile...