Smart Cities: Operational Research, Energy and Urbanistics
Smart cities stream focuses on sustainable urban development empowered with analytical methods, ICT tools and emerging technologies. The stream will start with brief introduction into basics of urbanistics, challenges of contemporary cities and "smart"-related concepts and approaches, i.e. internet of things and big data induced intelligence; urban system modelling, operations research and business analytics; user-centric city services and strategic planning. Further the program will proceed to cases and applications for several key areas of smart cities: energy, mobility, security, planning and governance, as well as tools and methods to complete projects, which will be a core activity of the stream.
Topics of the lectures
| Precipitation Modeling by RCMARS, CMARS and MARS |
| Optimal Control of Stochastic Heat Equation with Symplectic-Partitioned Runge-Kutta Schemes |
| Introduction to Business Analytics (2h) |
| Urbanistics (2h) |
| Energy for Smart Cities (2h) |
| Analytics for Businesses and Smart Cities (3h) |
| OR for developing countries (3h) |
| Universities as Drivers for Sustainability (4h) |
| Energy flows in smart cities: sensors, data and analysis (1h) |
| Urban challenges (incl. sustainability) (2h) |
| Energy management and control in Smart Cities (2h) |
| Energy management in Smart Cities: Energy efficiency and transport (2h) |
| Passive House: A Standard for a Sustainable Future. Technical aspects of highly energy efficient construction and refurbishment (2h) |
| Domestic Hot Water systems for Smart Cities: challenges and solutions (4h) |
| Smart city: transportation planning (5h) |
| Crowdfunding as a tool for launching and promotion of a technological project (2h) |
| Smart transport and infrastructure solutions (2h) |
| Solar energy (1h) |
Courses materials
Topics of the projects
Stream will include group work on solving real-life problems using OR and analytical techniques. Several corresponding projects will be proposed to participants during the second part of the School. The main aims of the projects are to provide problem solving skills, train relevant competences, stimulate creativity and develop knowledge about the problem field. The projects will be supervised by the invited professionals and researchers, both from business and academia, as well as by societal stakeholders.
| Smart Career Planning and Skill Development via Personal Analytics |
| 3D printing of heat pipes |
| Improvement of Traffic Signaling System Data Management: a Case Study of Kyiv |
| Air solar collector |
Lecturers
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Turkey
Oleksandr Romanko
Canada
Urs Thomann
Switzerland/Ukraine
Benoit Sicre
Switzerland
