Utilizing Smart Systems to Enhance the Sustainability of Egyptian Administrative Buildings

Adaptive Systems for Smart Buildings Utilizing Wireless Sensor Networks and Artificial Intelligence

Administrative systems and reforms across the European Union – towards sustainability?

This paper presents an overview of the particularities of the administrative systems across the European Union. With more and more countries becoming members of the Union, legal and administrative harmonisation becomes more important than ever. Both internal and external aspects may trigger changes, whose scale will be dependent of many factors. It must be realised that administration in this c...

Sustainability Indicators for Energy Systems to Enhance Decision Making Processes

1. Abstract The energy sector plays a key role within the concept of Sustainable Development. However, there is consensus that today’s energy system is not sustainable. A transformation towards more efficient structures as well as a shift to renewable sources is needed. To get on the right track, sustainability aspects should be addressed within the scope of technology assessments. This applies...

measuring the sustainability of rural settlements using smart systems (fuzzy logic): qooshkhaneh district of shirvan

for a long time, the concept of sustainability and unsustainability, the ways to assess them, and the factors involved in the process of various areas of scienc, especially the environmental ones. sustainability in rural areas as human settlements depends heavily on a series of factors including environmental and socio-economic factors. this paper aims at introducing fuzzy set theory and the ex...

Smart Buildings and Smart Grids

This report provides an overview of the program, discussions, and outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 15091 “Smart Buildings and Smart Grids”, which took place from 22–27 February 2015 at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics. The main goal of the seminar was to provide a forum for leading Energy Informatics (EI) researchers to discuss their recent research on Smart Buildings and Smart Gri...