1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910702670203321

Autore

Sullivan Patrick

Titolo

Advanced methods for incorporating solar energy technologies into electric sector capacity-expansion models : literature review and analysis / / P. Sullivan, K. Eurek, and R. Margolis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Golden, CO : , : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, , July 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 43 pages) : color illustrations, color maps

Collana

NREL/TP ; ; 6A20-61185

Soggetti

Electric power systems - Mathematical models

Electric power systems - Computer programs

Solar energy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"July 2014."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-43).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965066903321

Autore

Vanhuysse Pieter

Titolo

Divide and pacify : strategic social policies and political protests in post-communist democracies / / Pieter Vanhuysse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-003-71921-X

978-6-15521-144-7

978-615-5211-44-7

9786155211447

615-5211-44-2

1-4294-1337-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Disciplina

320.9437

Soggetti

New democracies - Europe, Central

Patronage, Political - Europe, Central

Europe, Central Social policy

Poland Politics and government 1989-

Czech Republic Politics and government 1993-

Hungary Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The unexpected peacefulness of transitions -- Political quiescence despite conditions for conflict -- Preventing protests: divide and pacify as political strategy -- The great abnormal pensioner booms: strategic social policies in practice -- Peaceful pathways: the political economy of post- communist welfare -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities, the Central and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have been remarkably peaceful. This book proposes a new explanation for this unexpected political quiescence. It shows how reforming governments in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have been able to prevent massive waves of strikes and protests by the strategic use of welfare state



programs such as pensions and unemployment benefits. Divide and Pacify explains how social policies were used to prevent massive job losses with softening labor market policies, or to split up highly aggrieved groups of workers in precarious jobs by sending some of them onto unemployment benefits and many others onto early retirement and disability pensions. From a narrow economic viewpoint, these policies often appeared to be immensely costly or irresponsibly populist. Yet a more inclusive social-scientific perspective can shed new light on these seemingly irrational policies by pointing to deeper political motives and wider sociological consequences.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910163088203321

Titolo

Harmony Search Algorithm : Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Harmony Search Algorithm (ICHSA 2017) / / edited by Javier Del Ser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

981-10-3728-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 366 p. 104 illus.)

Collana

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, , 2194-5365 ; ; 514

Disciplina

006.31

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Algorithms

Computational Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sensitivity Analysis on Migration Parameters of Parallel Harmony Search -- Multi-layered Harmony Search Algorithm: Introduction of a Novel and Efficient Structure -- Application of Self-adaptive Method in Multi-objective Harmony Search Algorithm -- A Comparative Study of Exploration Ability of Harmony Search Algorithms -- The Extraordinary Particle Swarm Optimization and its Application in Constrained



Engineering Problems -- Metaheuristic based Optimization for Tuned Mass Dampers using Frequency Domain Responses.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents state-of-the-art technical contributions based around one of the most successful evolutionary optimization algorithms published to date: Harmony Search. Contributions span from novel technical derivations of this algorithm to applications in the broad fields of civil engineering, energy, transportation & mobility and health, among many others and focus not only on its cross-domain applicability, but also on its core evolutionary operators, including elements inspired from other meta-heuristics. The global scientific community is witnessing an upsurge in groundbreaking, new advances in all areas of computational intelligence, with a particular flurry of research focusing on evolutionary computation and bio-inspired optimization. Observed processes in nature and sociology have provided the basis for innovative algorithmic developments aimed at leveraging the inherent capability to adapt characterized by various animals, including ants, fireflies, wolves and humans. However, it is the behavioral patterns observed in music composition that motivated the advent of the Harmony Search algorithm, a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm that over the last decade has been shown to dominate other solvers in a plethora of application scenarios. The book consists of a selection of the best contributions presented at ICHSA, a major biannual event where leading global experts on meta-heuristic optimization present their latest findings and discuss the past, present, and future of the exciting field of Harmony Search optimization. It provides a valuable reference resource for researchersworking in the field of optimization meta-heuristics, and a solid technical base for frontline investigations around this algorithm.