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Energy Informatics: Initial Thoughts on Data and Process Management

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Energy Informatics is an emerging discipline concerned with using information systems to reduce energy consumption. The relationship between Energy Informatics and data and process management is examined. A new era of sensor network data is identified. Three aspects of business process management, case management, complex event processing, and key performance indicators are examined. The chapter shows how these three BPM technologies fit into an energy management systems general model.

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Notes

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    This framework would equally apply to other scarce natural resources, such as water.

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    Processing time is likely to be of the order of n2, where n is the number of zones.

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  1. Department of MIS, Terry College of Business, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Richard T. Watson, Jeffrey Howells & Marie-Claude Boudreau

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  1. Inst. of Information Systems, University of Liechtenstein, Fürst-Franz-Josef-Str. 21, Vaduz, 9490, Liechtenstein

    Jan vom Brocke

  2. Inst. of Information Systems, University of Liechtenstein, Fürst-Franz-Josef-Strasse 21, Vaduz, 9490, Liechtenstein

    Stefan Seidel

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    Jan Recker

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Watson, R.T., Howells, J., Boudreau, MC. (2012). Energy Informatics: Initial Thoughts on Data and Process Management. In: vom Brocke, J., Seidel, S., Recker, J. (eds) Green Business Process Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27488-6_9

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