Szenarien sind ein beliebtes Mittel zur Exploration möglicher Zukünfte und der Veranschaulichung der Auswirkungen von heutigem Handeln über einen langfristigen Zeithorizont. Durch Partizipation von Expert/innen und Stakeholder/innen in der Szenarienkonstruktion kann sowohl die Qualität von sozio-ökonomischen Szenarien verbessert, als auch soziales Lernen gefördert werden. Partizipative Szenarienplanung (PSP) erlebt deshalb einen Aufschwung ...

In recent years FPGAs have gained interest by the high performance community because they can allow to greatly reduce the data movement compared to typical load-store architectures. However, for memory bound operations FPGAs tend to be slow due to their limited memory performance. To solve this issue the major FPGA companies started inte- grating High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) into their devices. The DaCe Framework provides an abstraction ...

Gas compressor stations are vital components of natural gas pipelines. Their compressors are often arranged in parallel or serial configurations to achieve a designated mass flow or pressure ratio. The machines have different, time-varying performance characteristics and by applying carefully chosen inputs to them, the station’s energy consumption of can be reduced. In the industry, a two-step real-time optimization method is frequently ...

The purpose of subsidies for forestry companies is to ensure the provision of forest ecosystem services. As a negative side effect, previous studies, however, have suggested that these subsidies lower the efficiency of the companies and thus decrease their operating profit. The goal of this thesis is to investigate the impact of subsidies on the operating profit of Swiss forestry companies. Based on a regression model, the correlation ...

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) experience various delays as their signals propagate through the Earth’s atmosphere. Some sources of error, such as the ionospheric delay, can be accounted for with relative ease. Delays caused by the lowest atmospheric layer, the troposphere, however, are challenging to predict accurately due to their high spatial and temporal variability. Tropospheric delays depend on weather conditions, allowing ...