This book focuses on creating an integrated library of learning models and optimization techniques to assist decision-making on issues in the energy and building sector. It provides modern solutions to energy management and efficiency while addressing a scientific gap in the development of advanced algorithmic methods to solve these problems. More specifically, the focus is on the development of models and algorithms for problems falling into three broader categories, namely: (a) Distribut...

Decision Support Systems (DSSs) are Software and Information Systems which make use of various data and business models, employ advanced data analytics procedures, and access extensive databases and data warehouses to facilitate with a decision process or with organizational issues. DSSs have proven to be particularly useful at the strategic level, while they usually require only limited computer-proficiency skills from their users. Although DSSs have been under development and use for sev...

As carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and other greenhouse gases constantly rise and constitute the main contributor to climate change, temperature rise and global warming, artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of things, and blockchain technologies are enlisted to help enforce energy transition and transform the entire energy sector.The book at hand presents state-of-the-art developments in artificial intelligence-empowered analytics of energy data and artificial in...

This book covers topics in portfolio management and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), presenting a transparent and unified methodology for the portfolio construction process. The most important feature of the book includes the proposed methodological framework that integrates two individual subsystems, the portfolio selection subsystem and the portfolio optimization subsystem. An additional highlight of the book includes the detailed, step-by-step implementation of the proposed multi...

This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits of flexible policy implementation as well as new framings for business and market actors. In turn,...