Intelligent Information Systems and Knowledge Management for Energy: Applications for Decision Support, Usage, and Environmental Protection

Kostas Metaxiotis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

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Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase

ISBN13: 9781605667379

EISBN13: 9781605667386

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-737-9

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More than ever before, energy is becoming one of the most crucial concerns in economical and industrial development.

Intelligent Information Systems and Knowledge Management for Energy: Applications for Decision Support, Usage, and Environmental Protection provides in-depth analysis of the need for a holistic approach for the construction and engineering of cities and societies. This defining body of research examines key issues and approaches for energy use and provides future direction of development as well.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Comprehensive energy systems analysis
Control strategies for wind energy conversion systems
Energy generation systems
Environmental and economic dispatch problem
Fuel reduction effect
Intelligent motor-pump system
Knowledge management for electric power utility
Modelling energy consumption
Modern energy applications
Poly-generation planning
Quality of energy services

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This book represents an ambitious attempt to address the multiple issues concerning how ICT and intelligent information systems can be used with the aim at solving vital issues in the energy sector.

– Professor Emeritus Emmanuel Samouilidis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Kostas Metaxiotis, (PhD), is an assistant professor at the University of Piraeus and has served as Senior Advisor to the Secretary for the Information Society in the Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance since 2004. He has wide experience in knowledge management, artificial intelligence, objectoriented knowledge modelling, inference mechanisms, e-health, e-business. Dr. Metaxiotis has published more than 70 scientific papers in various journals and conferences, such as Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, Knowledge Management & Practice, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Management & Data Systems, Journal of Computer Information Systems. Currently, he is a member of several editorial boards and reviews in many leading journals in the field. He is also a member of the Program Committee at international conferences. Since 1996 he has been participating in various European Commission (EC)-funded projects within Tacis, Phare, MEDA and IST Programmes as Senior ICT Consultant and Manager. Since 2007 he has been serving as External Evaluator of EC-funded ICT projects.

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