Assessment and Simulation Tools for Sustainable Energy Systems

Part I. Multi-Criteria Foundations and Applications

1. Sustainability Assessment of Solar Technologies Based on Linguistic Information
Fausto Cavallaro, Luigi Ciraolo

2. Photovoltaic Plants Selection on an Insular Grid Using Multicriteria Outranking Tools: Application in Corsica Island (France)
Pascal Oberti, Marc Muselli, Pierrick Haurant

3. Assessment of Green Energy Alternatives Using Fuzzy ANP
Başar Öztayşi, Seda Uğurlu, Cengiz Kahraman

4. Decision Criteria for Optimal Location of Solar Plants: Photovoltaic and Thermoelectric
J. Miguel Sánchez-Lozano, M. Socorro García-Cascales, M. Teresa Lamata

5. A Multi-Attribute Model for Wind Farm Location Combining Cloud and Utility Theories
José Ramón San Cristóbal

6. Territorial Design for Matching Green Energy Supply and Energy Consumption: The Case of Turkey
Seda Uğurlu, Başar Öztayşi, Cengiz Kahraman

7. A Cumulative Belief Degree Approach for Prioritization of Energy Sources: Case of Turkey
Özgür Kabak, Didem Cinar, Gulcin Yucel Hoge

8. MCDA: Measuring Robustness as a Tool to Address Strategic Wind Farms Issues
Maria L. Vazquez, Jean-Philippe Waaub, Adrian Ilinca

9. Assessment of Energy Efficiency Technologies: Case of Heat Pump Water Heaters
Tugrul U. Daim, Craig Kensel, Kenny Phan

Part II. Fuzzy Inference, Artificial Neural Net, Algorithm Genetics

10. A Fuzzy Paradigm for the Sustainability Evaluation of Energy Systems
Evangelos Grigoroudis, Vassilis S. Kouikoglou, Yannis A. Phillis

11. Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms for the Modeling, Simulation, and Performance Prediction of Solar Energy Systems
Soteris A. Kalogirou

12. Artificial Neural Network Based Methodologies for the Estimation of Wind Speed
Despina Deligiorgi, Kostas Philippopoulos, Georgios Kouroupetroglou

13. The Use of Genetic Algorithms to Solve the Allocation Problems in the Life Cycle Inventory
Maurizio Cellura, Sonia Longo, Giuseppe Marsala, Marina Mistretta, Marcello Pucci

14. Design and Implementation of Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm Using Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithm
Adnane Messai, Adel Mellit

Part III. Simulation Models and Approaches

15. Simulation and Renewable Energy Systems
H. Kutay Tinç, C. Erhan Bozdağ

16. Combining Mathematical Programming and Monte Carlo Simulation to Deal with Uncertainty in Energy Project Portfolio Selection
George Mavrotas, Olena Pechak

17. Value Stream Maps for Industrial Energy Efficiency
Cem Keskin, Umut Asan, Gulgun Kayakutlu

18. Assessment of Energy Efficiency in Lean Transformation: A Simulation Based Improvement Methodology
Serdar Baysan, Emre Cevikcan, Şule Itır Satoglu

19. Socio-Effective Value of Bio-Diesel Production
Ayca Altay, Secil Ercan, Yasemin Ozliman

Keywords: Energy, Renewable and Green Energy, Renewable and Green Energy, Simulation and Modeling