Resource convergence and resource power: towards new concepts for material efficiency

Resource convergence and resource power: towards new concepts for material efficiency.

Material efficiency is not a panacea, but it lies at the intersection of many problems of global sustainability. Reducing the usage of a single material in a value chain may require ingenuity and wide cooperation, but conceptually it is not a problem. When the problem stretches to several resources in changing circumstances, we have to understand the linkages between resources and the power, an...

DRAPE: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Power Efficiency

Uncertain Resource Availabilities: Proactive and Reactive Procedures for Preemptive Resource Constrained project Scheduling Problem

Project scheduling is the part of project management that deals with determining when intime to start (and finish) which activities and with the allocation of scarce resources to theproject activities. In practice, virtually all project managers are confronted with resourcescarceness. In such cases, the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP)arises. This optimization problem has...

Towards Concurrent Resource Managed Deduction towards Concurrent Resource Managed Deduction

In this paper, we describe an architecture for resource guided concurrent mecha-nised deduction which is motivated by some ndings in cognitive science. Its beneets are illustrated by comparing it with traditional proof search techniques. In particular, we introduce the notion of focused search and show that a reasoning system can be built as the cooperative collection of concurrently acting spe...

Efficiency, Production, and Resource Consumption

This work explores the historical effectiveness of efficiency improvements in reducing mankind’s impact on the earth. Ten activities are analyzed, including pig iron production, aluminum production, nitrogen fertilizer production, electricity generation from coal, oil, and natural gas, freight rail travel, passenger air travel, motor vehicle travel, and refrigeration. The data and analyses pres...