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The next generation of many-core enabled large-scale computing systems relies on thousands of billions of heterogeneous processing cores connected to form a single computing unit. In such large-scale computing environments, resource…
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Future energy systems are subject to various uncertain influences. As resilient systems they should maintain a constantly high operational performance whatever happens. We explore different levels and time scales of decision making in…
Large uncertainties in the energy transition urge decision-makers to develop low-regret strategies, i.e., strategies that perform well regardless of how the future unfolds. To address this challenge, we introduce a decision-support…
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