| 项目编号: | 1707184
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| 项目名称: | Analysis and Synthesis of Systems Sustainable Over Sets |
| 作者: | Vasilios Manousiouthakis
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| 承担单位: | University of California-Los Angeles
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| 批准年: | 2017
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| 开始日期: | 2017-09-01
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| 结束日期: | 2020-08-31
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| 资助金额: | 299997
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Engineering - Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
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| 英文关键词: | k-12
; set
; analysis
; summer research program
; sustainable system synthesis methodology
; sos
; rectangular set
; sos concept
; invariant set
; sustainability
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| 英文摘要: | The complex nature of sustainability suggests that its assessment can benefit from the incorporation of human input into the assessment process. The novel concept of "sustainability over sets" (SOS) meets this challenge. This concept is flexible, comprehensive, and can readily incorporate human input. The SOS concept opens a new chapter in environmental and ecological sustainability. In addition, the involvement of K-12, undergraduate, and graduate students occurs through the creation of new projects, infrastructures utilized in summer research programs, environmental sustainability courses, and upper level mathematics and optimization classes. The project also provides training for involved individuals, by exposing them to high level mathematics and computer programming concepts, methods, and software. The project researchers are facilitating the placement of participants in graduate schools, and in university faculty positions. Assistance on these fronts is provided by the UCLA Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity (CEED) and the UCLA High School Summer Research Program (HSSRP).
This research project focuses on the analysis and synthesis of sustainable systems through the novel concept of sustainability over sets (SOS). The SOS concept is first formally defined, and then mathematically quantified for memory-less, spatially uniform systems, and demonstrated in system sustainability assessment. The research focuses on the continued conceptual development and analysis of the SOS concept; extension of its applicability to systems that are spatially distributed and/or have memory; applications and case studies on ecological, biological, and societal systems; and development of sustainable system synthesis methodologies. SOS is readily quantifiable, thus enabling definitive (yes or no) answers to the question "is a system sustainable?" The concept of invariant sets plays a key role in this quantification process, leading to simple mathematical criteria for sustainability assessment, in particular for rectangular sets for which definitive (yes or no) answers can be given to the question "does there exist a set over which the system is sustainable?" The project also helps K-12, undergraduate, and graduate students, by creating new projects, and infrastructure to be utilized in summer research programs, environmental sustainability courses, and upper level mathematics and optimization classes. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/88811
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| Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划
科学计划与规划
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Vasilios Manousiouthakis. Analysis and Synthesis of Systems Sustainable Over Sets. 2017-01-01.
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