Analyzing statistically the energy consumption and production patterns of European REScoop members: Results from the H2020 project REScoop Plus

REScoops are cooperatives of renewable energy producers and/or consumers, which have begun to form in the emerging European Smart Grid. According to the Federation of REScoops in Europe (REScoop.eu), there are currently more than 2,397 REScoops, collectively having more than 650,000 members. As such, their emergence highlights the importance of...

Exploring interventions and tools used by REScoops to lower householders’ energy consumption and stimulate investment in RES projects

REScoops are well positioned to spur energy savings among householders and generate investment in renewable energy projects. As compared to other agents in energy markets they have many benefits, particularly their embeddedness in local, social structures. In this paper we explore in which ways, and by using which tools and interventions...

Design of a Lightweight and Durable Kite for Cost-Effective Traction Power Generation in a Pumping Kite Power System

Process and knowledge integration via portals in shipbuilding

Effective use of 'underwater' planning tricks in complicated engineering networks?

Engineering-to-Order (ETO) processes in shipbuilding rely heavily on the short lead times of design and engineering information. Co-engineering parties are constantly confronted with the question whether or not to share immature, preliminary information: Working with preliminary information will certainly induce iterations and rework once the...

EFFECTIVE USE OF ‘UNDERWATER’ PLANNING TRICKS IN COMPLICATED ENGINEERING NETWORKS?

ZWERM: stimulating urban neighborhood self-organization through gamification

We describe ZWERM, a social computing application acting as a mobilization system. The system provides ways to motivate and coordinate neighborhood inhabitant activity in such a way that social capital is consolidated and activated. We use the MDAG (mechanics, dynamics, aesthetics, goals) framework to describe the workings of ZWERM. The main...

How Can Facilities Management Add Value To Organisations As Well As To Society?

The purpose of this paper is to present lessons learnt from a 3 year collaborative research project on the added value of Facilities Management (FM) involving institutions in five European countries. The starting point was the so-called FM Value Map developed earlier by the leader of the research group. The project applied three basic...

The Added Value of FM: Different Research Perspectives

Purpose: This paper aims to present and compare research perspectives and theoretical reflections from a variety of academic fields on the concept of Added Value of Facilities Management (FM).<br/>Theory: The starting point is the so-called FM Value Map, which was presented in a paper by Jensen (2009) at the research symposium at EFMC 2009 in...

Model and evaluation technique for engineering-to-order processes in shipbuilding

Architectural and QoS Aspects of Personal Networks

Personal Networks (PNs) are future communication systems that combine wireless and infrastructure based networks to provide users a variety of services anywhere and anytime. PNs introduce new design challenges due to the heterogeneity of the involved technologies, the need for self-organization, the dynamics of the PN composition, the...