This involves having production units distribute to the consuming units through a single vertical and central distribution network. Each fl oor is served by an indirect connected substation (Figure 3). Enhancing comfort1 and reducing energy demand2 is possible when fl oorto-fl oor (rather than building-to-building) consumption is moderate (cooling) or low (heating) temperature radiant-based sur...

− The study presented in this paper aims to develop a new method for active and reactive power balancing in a four-wire stand-alone microgrid (MG), which feds single phase loads. Two unbalance compensation controllers are used, for active and reactive powers. The compensation is based on a dump load (DL) and a static compensator (STATCOM), which ensure the balance of the active and reactive pow...

The identification of objects in video sequences, that is, video segmentation, plays a major role in emerging interactive multimedia services, such as those enabled by the ISOMPEG-4 andMPEG-7 standards. In this context, assessing the adequacy of the identified objects to the application targets, that is, evaluating the segmentation quality, assumes a crucial importance. Video segmentation techn...