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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Infrastructure Networks"”.
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Urban residential infrastructure networks.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1970. M.Arch.
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Protecting infrastructure networks from disinformation
… consequences such as damage to critical infrastructure networks such as electric power, gas, and water distribution networks. Imagine a fake electricity discount, shared by disinformation campaigns, is exposed to many users on Twitter encouraging them to shift their electricity usage to a …
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Stormwater management and multipurpose infrastructure networks
… to the design and function of urban areas and of infrastructure itself. As an entry point to explore the topic, this thesis focuses on stormwater management as one basic building block or fundamental component of multipurpose infrastructure development. An increasing number of cities will seek to …
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Interlinking Interregional Economic Models With Infrastructure Networks: Three Essays
Dynamic models vary in complexity depending on the time horizon length. In the short term, where we can reasonably assume that technology and the network topology and capacity are fixed we can model dynamics as a sequence of static equilibriums where each period may be linked to the previous ones …
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ALGORITHMS FOR ROUTING AND CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT IN WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKS
… at the nodes. In addition, nodes in these networks employ directional antennasas radios to improve spatial throughput. This dissertation develops algorithms forrouting and broadcasting with channel assignment in such networks. First, we com-pute the minimum cost path between a given …
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Assessing the value of green infrastructure networks to manage peak flows and support community resilience to climate change
… management, Surrey recently mapped its `Green Infrastructure Network' (GIN). This study assessed the value of the GIN for climate change adaptation by quantifying its flood mitigation services under 11 different land management scenarios. ArcGIS was used to show the effect of land management …
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Strategic and analytics-driven inspection operations for critical infrastructure resilience
Resilience of infrastructure networks is a key requirement for a functioning modern society. These networks work continuously to enable the delivery of critical services such as water, natural gas, and transportation. However, recent natural disasters and cyber-physical security attacks have …
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Contemporary Network Theory: Concepts and Implications for Transportation Asset Management
… a novel working paradigm for transportation infrastructure asset management by viewing the transportation networks as key components (or nodes) of a broader network of resources, which includes infrastructure linked with society's ecological, social, and economic systems. An extensive review …
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Inferring Network Status from Partial Observations
… network applications, such as the Internet and infrastructure networks, nodes fail or get congested dynamically, but tracking this information about all the nodes in a network where some dynamical processes are taking place is a fundamental problem. In this work, we study the problem of …
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Optimal Operation of Water and Power Distribution Networks
… demand for the coordinated operation of our infrastructure networks. In this context, this thesis puts forth a comprehensive toolbox for the optimization of electric power and water distribution networks. On the analytical front, the toolbox consists of novel mixed-integer (non)-linear …
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Risk and vulnerability analysis in society’s proactive emergency management: Developing methods and improving practices
… for risk and vulnerability analysis of technical infrastructure networks and emergency response systems. Secondly, by aiming to improve practises related to RVA through an evaluation of Swedish municipal RVAs and an empirical study of how various disaster characteristics affect people judgments of …
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Risk and Vulnerability Analysis of Complex Systems: a basis for proactive emergency management
… for analysing the vulnerability of critical infrastructure networks, based on the suggested definition, are presented. An empirical study of people’s values and preferences regarding different attributes of potential disaster scenarios is also presented, since knowledge about values also is …
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Irish state infrastructural investment: an analysis of past patterns, and an outline of a future integrated systems of systems evaluation methodology
… links the quality and capacity of a country’s infrastructure to its economic growth and competitiveness. This thesis analyses the historic national and spatial distribution of investment by the Irish state in its physical networks (water, wastewater and roads) across the 34 local authorities …
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Threads of connectivity: Placemaking as a catalyst for bridging the infrastructure divide along the Voortrekker corridor
… What is the relationship between materials? Infrastructure systems play a vital role in cities, distributing resources throughout the city to ensure its functionality and continuous development. In the book Points + Lines, Stan Allen describes urban infrastructure as artificial ecologies …
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Optimization, Learning, and Control for Energy Networks
Massive infrastructure networks such as electric power, natural gas, or water systems play a pivotal role in everyday human lives. Development and operation of these networks is extremely capital-intensive. Moreover, security and reliability of these networks is critical. This work identifies and …
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Algorithms for self-healing networks
Many modern networks are reconfigurable, in the sense that the topology of the network can be changed by the nodes in the network. For example, peer-to-peer, wireless and ad-hoc networks are reconfigurable. More generally, many social networks, such as a company's organizational chart; …
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Improved methods for fast system reliability analysis through machine-learning-based surrogate models
… of the connectivity of different regions of infrastructure networks is crucial to post-event decision making. The specific problem of determining the probability that two nodes in an infrastructure network are disconnected given the edge failure probabilities is known as the two-terminal …
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Swamp rats, fat cats and soggy suburbs : planners and engineers in south east Florida
… for water supply, road, sewerage, electricity networks. But the relationship between the professional values, education and practices of city or urban planning and civil engineering, and these infrastructure networks is an under-explored phenomenon in both fields. This doctoral dissertation …
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The Infrastructures of Occupation: Iraq, 2003 – 2012
… attempted to rebuild and reshape Iraq's infrastructure networks, most of which had been severely damaged during the 2003 invasion, the United Nations sanctions, and previous wars. This dissertation is a critical history of the efforts of the US occupation to produce new infrastructures in …
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Linking Mining and Infrastructure Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Collaborative Framework for Sustainable Shared-Use of Rails and Ports Facilities for Minerals and Non-Minerals Activities
… an appropriately co-ordinated regime for infrastructure sharing facilities development and regulation in SSA that could be utilised by the various stakeholders involved in mining infrastructure related activities, as well as those not involved in mineral-related activities, to enable …
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