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Ursula Eicker

Concordia University

Canada

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

12

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491

TOTAL CITATIONS

1

Scholarly Papers (12)

1.

Louver Configuration Comparison in Three Canadian Cities Utilizing NSGA-II

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Sep 2022
Nariman Rafati, Morteza Hazbei and Ursula Eicker
Iran University of Science and Technology, Concordia University and Concordia University
Downloads 104 (674,591)

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Energy performance, Daylight availability, Parametric design, Louver, Optimization, NSGA-II

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How Can Stochastic Occupant-Based Archetypes Enhance Urban Building Energy Modeling for Better Decision-Making?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 Dec 2024
Sanam Dabirian, Kartikay Sharma and Ursula Eicker
Concordia University, Concordia University and Concordia University
Downloads 78 (823,616)

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Urban building energy modeling, Occupancy modeling, Stochastic modeling, Time-series data

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A Geographic-Semantic Context-Aware Urban Commuting Flow Prediction Model Using Graph Neural Network

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 Jan 2024
Concordia University, Concordia University, Concordia University, Concordia University, Quebec and East China Normal University, School of Computer Science and Technology
Downloads 64 (924,743)

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Human mobility, Commuting flow prediction, Graph Neural Network, Geographic and semantic adjacency

4.

Regional Optimization of Urban Heating System Design Considering Urban-Industrial Symbiosis

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Nov 2025
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Concordia University, Concordia University and Concordia University
Downloads 63 (989,921)

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Urban industrial symbiosis, Mathematical programming, District heating network, Heat recovery, Québec, Canada

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Joint Optimization of Electric Bus Scheduling and Fast Charging Infrastructure Location Planning

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 May 2025
Concordia University, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Concordia University
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Transportation, Electric bus scheduling, Charging station location, Charging scheduling, Branch-and-price

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The BIGG Ontology: A Semantic Framework for Integrating Urban Multi-sourced Geospatial Data

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Jan 2026
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Building Energy and Environment Group (CIMNE-BEE), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Building Energy and Environment Group (CIMNE-BEE), affiliation not provided to SSRN, Concordia University and Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña
Downloads 29 (1,372,601)

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buildings, urban planning, Geospatial data, Territorial analysis, Predictive modeling, Ontology, Data interoperability, Energy

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An Integrated Framework for Renewable Energy Community Viability and Risk Assessment Under Behavioral, Regulatory, and Investor-Specific Uncertainties

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 Apr 2026
Concordia University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Concordia University and University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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renewable energy communities (RECs), business model viability, risk analysis assessment, Monte Carlo simulation, multi-unit residential buildings, investor-specific uncertainty

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How demand modelling influences energy market mechanisms in renewable energy communities

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Jan 2026
Politecnico di Bari, Concordia University, Concordia University, Politecnico di Bari and Concordia University
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Renewable energy communities, Urban building energy modelling, Occupant behaviour, Energy market mechanisms, Stochastic demand modelling, Energy policy

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Diagnostic Operational Analysis and MILP-Derived Energy Retrofitting of an Indigenous Community Microgrid

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 Feb 2026
Concordia University, University of Naples Federico II, Concordia University, Politecnico di Bari, Concordia University, Concordia University and Concordia University
Downloads 23 (1,481,165)

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Remote Communities, Indigenous, Photovoltaic- Battery, Optimal Management, Island Microgrid, Renewable Integration

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Sabu: A Microservices-Based Software Framework for Disaggregated Carbon Emissions Estimation

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 26 May 2026 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2026
Alireza Adli and Ursula Eicker
Concordia University and Concordia University
Downloads 14 (1,526,714)

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Disaggregated carbon emissions evaluation, Software architecture, Microservices architecture, Microservice chassis pattern, Building life cycle assessment, Software modularity

11.

Decarbonizing Urban Transportation: A Case Study of Montreal

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Jan 2026
Concordia University, Concordia University and Concordia University
Downloads 13 (1,526,714)
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CO₂ emissions, urban transportation, multimodal routing, Electric Vehicles, active transportation

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Measuring the Fabric of Proximity: A Multi-Scalar Retail Classification of Montreal

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Jul 2026
Concordia University, Concordia University and Concordia University
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retail morphology, proximity planning, Accessibility, retail classification, urban form, commercial geography