The SmartHG project [1], [2] has the goal of developing economically viable Intelligent Automation Services (IASs), which gather real-time data about energy usage from residential homes and exploit such data for intelligent automation. Such services pursue two main goals: to minimise energy usage and cost for each home, and to support the Distribution Network Operator (DNO) in optimising operat...

The power wall has become a dominant impeding factor in the realm of exascale system design. It is therefore important to understand how to most effectively create application software in order to minimize its power usage while maintaining satisfactory levels of performance. In this work, we use existing software and hardware facilities in order to tune applications to minimize for several comb...

The present study was designed to explore how the interaction between the fascicles and tendinous tissues is involved in storage and utilization of elastic energy during human walking. Eight male subjects walked with a natural cadence (1.4 +/- 0.1 m/s) on a 10-m-long force plate system. In vivo techniques were employed to record the Achilles tendon force and to scan real-time fascicle lengths f...

In this work, we face a payment estimation problem that involves a community of users and an energy distributor (or producer). Our aim is to compute payments for every user in the community according to the single user’s consumption, the community’s consumption and the available energy. The proposed scheme influences the community in consuming in a virtuous way. In order to reach this goal, our...

We address the problem of forecasting the usage of multiple electrical appliances by domestic users, with the aim of providing suggestions about the best time to run appliances in order to reduce carbon emissions and save money (assuming time-ofuse pricing), while minimising the impact on the users’ daily habits. An important challenge related to this problem is the modelling the everyday routi...

The Complier Average Causal Effect (CACE) method has been increasingly used in prevention research to provide more accurate causal intervention effect estimates in the presence of noncompliance. The purpose of this study was to provide an applied demonstration of the CACE analytic approach to evaluate the relative effects of a family-based prevention intervention, Familias Unidas, in preventing...

In this paper we are going to show how to discover interesting prediction rules in student usage information, and use them to improve adaptive web courses. We have used AHA! to make a course that adapts both the presentation and the navigation depending on the level of knowledge that each particular student has. We have made several changes in AHA! to improve its power in the educational area. ...

Mots clés : webométrie, fouille de données d’usage du Web, indicateurs de la science, comportement utilisateur Web, analyse co-usage, serveur Web