Pursuing Sustainability with Process Integration and Optimization

Pursuing sustainability: An Introduction

Sustainability is a term we hear all around us. Corporations brand themselves as sustainable and attempt to build sustainability goals, measures, and metrics into their business plans and supply chains. State and local governments set sustainability targets and pursue them, installing efficiency standards and practices, encouraging the use of public transportation systems, and incentivizing cit...

Optimization of Process Integration

About ODVA Founded in 1995, ODVA is a global trade association whose members are comprised of the world's leading automation companies that make and sell products compliant with ODVA technologies. ODVA's mission is to advance open, interoperable information and communication technologies in industrial automation and thus create value for our members, adopters, alliance partners and employees. O...

Optimization of Process Integration

Shape Optimization by Pursuing Diffeomorphisms

We consider PDE constrained shape optimization in the framework of finite element discretization of the underlying boundary value problem. Our approach employs (i) B-spline based representations of the deformation diffeomorphism, and (ii) superconvergent domain integral expressions for the shape gradient. We study the balance of the discretization errors of the finite element method and the B-s...

Immigration, Integration and Fiscal Sustainability

Economic theory points out that immigration of even low-skilled immigrants may improve public finances in Western welfare states, and it is some times suggested that fiscal sustainability problems in Western countries caused by ageing populations could be solved by increasing immigration. We examine consequences of various immigration scenarios using the large-scale computable general equilibri...