Load balancing in electricity grids becomes a more sophisticated problem by the increased availability of time-varying stochastic availability of electricity from renewable resources. Demand side management by load shifting is one attempt to cope with this problem. In this paper we discus and compare two control strategies ...

To transfer knowledge of risk analysis of metapopulations into praxis UFZ started a joint project with OFFIS with the objective to develop a computer tool which gives aid to decision making in nature reserve. The design of the resulting simulator, which is based on a generic metapopulation model, is oriented to support ...

Complex ecological and socio-economic systems often have to be modelled spatially ex- plicitly. Therefore, cellular automata (CA) are a widely used method for such applica- tions. But CA in its original form do not allow to model processes on different time scales and also define a common grid for all processes. This ...

Today's households face a huge variety of electricity consuming devices on the one hand, and increasing electricity prices and increased awareness for environmental sustainability on the other hand. Fluctuating electricity tariffs currently evaluated by electricity suppliers have the potential to make it even more complex ...

The paper outlines the options to study Environmental Informatics at Oldenburg University. We focus on the Environmental Informatics specialisations in the Bachelor and Master programs in Computing Science. Our specialisation in Environmental Informatics is currently being changed in the process of a re-accreditation. ...