CS/INFO 6702
Topics in Computational Sustainability
Computer
Science and Information Science
Spring 2010
Instructor:
Carla Gomes
Faculty
Team: Jon Conrad, Steve Ellner, Carla Gomes, and Mary Lou Zeeman
Teaching
Assistants: Bistra Dilkina and
Georgios Piliouras
Web
page: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Courses/cs6702/2010sp/
Suggested Readings
·
Energy Resources
o Smart Grid and Electric Cars
“Towards a smart grid”
M. Amin and B. Wollenberg
IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, Vol.3, No 5, Sept/Oct. 2005, 34-38
SMART: A
Stochastic Multiscale Model for the Analysis of
Energy Resources, Technology and Policy link
Warren B. Powell, Abraham George, Alan Lamont, Jeff Stewart
Market Operation in Electronic Power Systems: Forecasting, Scheduling and Risk Management link
M. Shahidehpour,Hatim Yamin,Zuyi Li
Energy and environmental assessment of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in the
New York City Metropolitan Area
Acquaviva, J, Foster, EJ, Ferdon,
C, Rawat, S and Zhang, KM
ASME 3rd International Conference on Energy and Sustainability 2009
o Wind
Design of wind farm layout for maximum wind energy capture (link)
Andrew Kusiak, Zhe Song (2009) Renewable Energy
Prediction of Wind
Farm Power Ramp Rates: A Data-Mining Approach (link)
H.-Y. Zheng and A. Kusiak, ASME
Journal of Solar Engineering, Vol. 131, No. 3, 2009, pp.
031011-1-031011-8
o Biofuels
Biofuels: Economic and Public Policy Considerations, Bento, Antonio,Chapter 11, Proceedings of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) International Biofuels Project Rapid Assessment, 22-25 September 2008, Gummersbach, Germany. R.W. Howarth and S. Bringezu, editors. April 2009
Searchinger, T., Ralph Heimlich, R. A. Houghton, Fengxia Dong, Amani Elobeid, Jacinto Fabiosa, Simla Tokgoz, Dermot Hayes, Tun-Hsiang
Yu. 2009. Use of
·
Background
Info on the State of the Planet
·
Economics
and Human Behavior
· Human-Built
Systems and Land Use
·
Books