Publications related to Cost–benefit analysis

Fly-Swat or Cannon? Cost-Effective Language Model Choice via Meta-Modeling

Robert West, Maxime Jean Julien Peyrard, Marija Sakota

Generative language models (LMs) have become omnipresent across data science. For a wide variety of tasks, inputs can be phrased as natural language prompts for an LM, from whose output the solution can then be extracted. LM performance has consistently be ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2024

Implementing water recirculation in a novel portable plasma-activated water reactor enhances antimicrobial effect against Escherichia coli

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Fabio Avino, Rita Agus, Brayden Graham Myers, Lorenzo Ibba, Leonardo Zampieri

The need for sustainable and reliable decontamination methods is driven by concerns regarding antibiotic resistance, as well as environmental and cost -efficiency challenges associated with traditional methods. Plasmaactivated water (PAW) holds significant ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Appropriations and Uses of Travel Time

Ludy Juliana González Villamizar

Time has always been a central factor in understanding the challenges of daily mobility. For a long time, and still today, methods of economic evaluation of transport projects have monetized time savings so that they can be included in the cost–benefit ana ...

ISTE Wiley2023

Decision support for the design of integrated biorefineries

Julia Granacher

A shift from fossil-based energy and products to more sustainable alternatives is essential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and associated climate change impacts. Biomass represents a promising alternative for providing fuels and carbon-based products w ...

EPFL2023

The Case for Performance Interfaces for Hardware Accelerators

George Candea, Rishabh Ramesh Iyer, Jiacheng Ma, Aikaterini Argyraki

While systems designers are increasingly turning to hardware accelerators for performance gains, realizing these gains is painstaking and error-prone. It can take several person-months to determine if a given accelerator is a good fit for a given piece of ...

2023

Using continuous electrical conductivity measurements to derive major solute concentrations in karst systems

Paolo Benettin

Hydrochemical data of karst springs provide valuable insights into the internal hydrodynamical functioning of karst systems and support model structure identification. However, the collection of high-frequency time series of major solute species is limited ...

WILEY2023

Toward Sustainable and Cost-Effective CO2 Conversion Processes to Propylene Carbonate Based on Ionic Liquids

Elia Mercedes Ruiz Pachon

The use of ionic liquids (ILs) for CO2 capture and utilization into a valuable product is attracting interest even though literature evaluating their sustainability is scarce. A liquid-liquid extraction (LLE)-based separation is recently proposed as an alt ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Techno-Economic Evaluation of Biological and Fluidised-Bed Based Methanation Process Chains for Grid-Ready Biomethane Production

Oliver Kröcher, Tilman J. Schildhauer, Andreas Gantenbein

Three different power-to-methane process chains with grid injection in two scales (1 MWel and 6 MWel) were analysed regarding their investment and operation cost. The process chains were based on biological or catalytic bubbling fluidised bed methanation i ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

X-ray imaging detector for radiological applications adapted to the context and requirements of low- and middle-income countries

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, René Salathé, Mario Andres Chavarria Varon, Sébastien Emmanuel Blanc, Jérôme Schmid, Hubert Blanchard, Romain Sahli, Matthias Hüser

This paper describes the development of a novel medical x-ray imaging system adapted to the needs and constraints of low- and middle-income countries. The developed system is based on an indirect conversion chain: a scintillator plate produces visible ligh ...

2022

OnePot PURE Cell-Free System

Sebastian Maerkl, Laura Sophie Grasemann, Barbora Lavickova

The defined PURE (protein synthesis using recombinant elements) transcription-translation system provides an appealing chassis for cell-free synthetic biology. Unfortunately, commercially available systems are costly, and their tunability is limited. In co ...

2021

District heating and cooling systems to integrate renewable energy in urban areas

Francesca Belfiore

The building sector plays a crucial role in the ongoing energy transition due to its significant share of global energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, especially when combined with the estimation that 70% of the world's population will be living ...

EPFL2021

What determines the attitude-behavior link when voting on renewable energy policies? The roles of problem perception and policy design

Philippe Thalmann

This chapter sheds light on the paradox between the general perception of climate change related problems and resistance to measures addressing it, namely the support of renewable energy policies at the ballot box. Using conjoint analyses, we investigate t ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2021

Logical Team Q-learning: An approach towards factored policies in cooperative MARL

Ali H. Sayed, Lucas Cesar Eduardo Cassano

We address the challenge of learning factored policies in cooperative MARL scenarios. In particular, we consider the situation in which a team of agents collaborates to optimize a common cost. The goal is to obtain factored policies that determine the indi ...

MICROTOME PUBLISHING2021

Can Dynamic Priority Be Pareto Improving?

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte

Traditional priority schemes reduce delays for some by increasing those of others. Yet, this might not be a necessity. Several works published over the last two decades have shown for a stylized set-up with homogeneous users that dynamic priority scheme ma ...

2020

Smart Contract With Secret Parameters

Serge Vaudenay

By design, smart contracts' data and computations are public to all participants. In this paper, we study how to create smart contracts with parameters that need to stay secret. We propose a way to keep some of the parameters off-chain, while guaranteeing ...

2020

Navigating various flexibility mechanisms under European burden-sharing

Marc Vielle

In July 2016, the European Commission presented its proposal for a regulation to reduce greenhouse gases emissions in sectors not covered by the emissions trading system with regard to post-2020 binding targets. The proposal extends the burden-sharing fram ...

SPRINGER2020

Cyclometalated Ir(III) complexes as tuneable multiband light sources for optical multisensor systems: Feasibility study

Anastasia Gitlina

Development of novel analytical devices complying with modern requirements of simplicity and cost-effectiveness is an important task. Multisensor systems based on various types of chemical sensors are promising tools in this respect. Herein the development ...

2020

Quantification of the conditional value of SHM data for the fatigue safety evaluation of a road viaduct

Eugen Brühwiler, Imane Bayane

Fatigue safety verification of existing bridges that uses ‘‘re-calculation’’ based on codes, usually results in insufficient fatigue safety, triggering invasive interventions. Instead of “re-calculation”, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) should be used f ...

2019

Community-based landslide risk reduction: a review of a Red Cross soil bioengineering for resilience program in Honduras

Silvia Hostettler, Antonio D'Acunzi

Effective long-term participation of communities in disaster risk reduction measures in landslide-prone areas continues to be a challenge. This study aims to evaluate the extent to which community-based soil-bioengineering techniques allow for effective mi ...

2019

Allocation of Active Power Reserve from Active Distribution Networks Using a Cost-Benefit Approach: Application to Swissgrid Network

Fabrizio Sossan, Mokhtar Bozorg, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mohsen Kalantar Neyestanaki

The flexibility of distributed energy resources (DERs) accommodated in active distribution networks (ADNs) can be aggregated and then used to provide ancillary services to the transmission system. In this context, this paper presents a linear optimization ...

IEEE2019