Prof. i.R. Dr. Michael Sonnenschein Scientific Director R&D Division Energy

Prof. i.R. Dr. Michael Sonnenschein
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Scientific Director R&D Division Energy

Research and Developement Division

Energy

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Distributed and agent-based control in Smart Grids
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Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Fakultät für Informatik, Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften
Department für Informatik
26111 Oldenburg
GERMANY

Publications
of Prof. i.R. Dr. Michael Sonnenschein

2019

Development of a Process for Integrated Development and Evaluation of Energy Scenarios for Lower Saxony – Final Report of the Research Project NEDS – Nachhaltige Energieversorgung Niedersachsen

Blaufuß, C, Dumeier M, Kleinau M, Krause H, Minneman J, Nebel-Wenner M, Reinhold C, Schwarz JS, Wille F, Witt T, Busse C, Eggert F, Engel B, Geldermann J, Hofmann L, Hübler M, Lehnhoff S, Sonnenschein M, Seidel J; 12 / 2019

Distributed multi-objective scheduling of power consumption for smart buildings

Marvin Nebel-Wenner,Christian Reinhold,Farina Wille,Astrid Nieße,Michael Sonnenschein; Energy Informatics; September / 2019

Towards an Integrated Development and Sustainability Evaluation of Energy Scenarios Assisted by Automated Information Exchange

Schwarz, Jan Sören and Witt, Tobias and Nieße, Astrid and Geldermann, Jutta and Lehnhoff, Sebastian and Sonnenschein, Michael; Smart Cities, Green Technologies, and Intelligent Transport Systems; 2019

Whitepaper: NEDS Szenarien - Zukunftsszenarien für eine nachhaltige Energieversorgung in Niedersachsen für das Jahr 2050

Marita Blank, Christoph Blaufuß, Markus Glötzel, Julien Minnemann, Marvin Nebel-Wenner, Astrid Nieße, FrankPothen, Christian Reinhold, Jan Sören Schwarz, Katharina Stahlecker, Farina Wille, TobiasWitt, Frank Eggert, Bernd Engel, Jutta Geldermann, Lutz Hofmann, Michael Hübler, Sebastian Lehnhoff, Niko Paech, Michael Sonnenschein; Juni / 2019

2017

Dynamic Portfolio Optimization for Distributed Energy Resources in Virtual Power Plants

Balduin, Stephan and Brauer, Dierk and Elend, Lars and Holly, Stefanie and Korte, Jan and Krüger, Carsten and Meier, Almuth and Oest, Frauke and Sanders-Sjuts, Immo and Sauer, Torben and Schnieders, Marco and Zilke, Robert and Hinrichs, Christian and Sonnenschein, Michael; Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics: Stability, Continuity, Innovation; 2017

Ein Algorithmus für den Wiederaufbau eines Smart Grid nach einem Blackout

Hendrik Buhl, Tim Dombrowski, Erik Hogen, Maximilian Kreutz, Daniel Palm, Sanja Stark, Peer Stubbe, Stephanie Warsch, Jörg Bremer, Sebastian Lehnhoff, Michael Sonnenschein; INFORMATIK 2017; 2017

Towards an Integrated Sustainability Evaluation of Energy Scenarios with Automated Information Exchange

Jan Sören Schwarz, Tobias Witt, Astrid Nieße, Jutta Geldermann, Sebastian Lehnhoff, Michael Sonnenschein; Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems; April / 2017

2016

Dezentral und zentral gesteuertes Energiemanagement auf Verteilnetzebene zur Systemintegration erneuerbarer Energien

Matthias Koch, David Ritter, Dierk Bauknecht, Christoph Heinemann, Franziska Flachsbarth, Moritz Vogel,Malin Gandor, Thole Klingenberg,Martin Tröschel, Christoph Mayer, Michael Sonnenschein; February / 2016

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Local Soft Constraints in Distributed Energy Scheduling

Nieße, Astrid and Sonnenschein, Michael and Hinrichs, Christian and Bremer, Jörg; Proceedings of the 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems; 9 / 2016

Process for Simulation-based Sustainability Evaluation of Future Energy Scenarios

Marita Blank, Christoph Blaufuß, Markus Glötzel, Julien Minnemann, Astrid Nieße, Frank Pothen, Christian Reinhold, Jan Sören Schwarz, Katharina Stahlecker, Farina Wille, Tobias Witt, Torsten Rendel, Frank Eggert, Bernd Engel, Jutta Geldermann, Lutz Hofmann, Michael Hübler, Sebastian Lehnhoff, Niko Paech, Michael Sonnenschein; 12 / 2016

2015

A Fully Distributed Continuous Planning Approach for Decentralized Energy Units

Nieße, Astrid and Sonnenschein, Michael; Informatik 2015; 9 / 2015

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Decentralized control of units in smart grids for the support of renewable energy supply

Sonnenschein, Michael and Lünsdorf, Ontje and Bremer, Jörg and Tröschel, Martin; Environmental Impact Assessment Review ; 4 / 2015

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Efficient Provision of Ancillary Services by Decentralized, Volatile Generating Units

Ohsenbrügge, Anja and Blank, Marita and Lehnhoff, Sebastian and Sonnenschein, Michael; ETG-Fachtagung „Von Smart Grids zu Smart Markets“; 3 / 2015

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Regionally-Specific Scenarios for Smart Grid Simulations

Blank, Marita and Gandor, Malin and Niesse, Astrid and Scherfke, Stefan and Lehnhoff, Sebastian and Sonnenschein, Michael; 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG2015); 5 / 2015

Smart Nord Final Report

Marita Blank, Timo Breithaupt, Jörg Bremer, Arne Dammasch, Steffen Garske, Thole Klingenberg, Stefanie Koch, Ontje Lünsdorf, Astrid Nieße, Stefan Scherfke, Lutz Hofmann and Michael Sonnenschein; 4 / 2015

Supporting Renewable Power Supply through Distributed Coordination of Energy Resources

Sonnenschein, Michael and Hinrichs, Christian and Nieße, Astrid and Vogel, Ute; 2015

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2014

Conjoint Dynamic Aggregation and Scheduling Methods for Dynamic Virtual Power Plants

Astrid Nieße, Sebastian Beer, Jörg Bremer, Christian Hinrichs, Ontje Lünsdorf, Michael Sonnenschein; Proceedings of the 2014 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems; 9 / 2014

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Dynamic Virtual Power Plants in Future Energy Grids: Defining the Gap to the Field

Astrid Nieße, Sebastian Lehnhoff, Michael Sonnenschein, Martin Tröschel; VDE Kongress 2014; 10 / 2014

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Energy Informatics

Christoph Goebel, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Victor Razo, Christoph Doblander, Jose Rivera, Jens Ilg, Christoph Flath, Hartmut Schmeck, Christof Weinhardt, Daniel Pathmaperuma, Hans-Jürgen Appelrath, Michael Sonnenschein, Sebastian Lehnhoff, Oliver Kramer, Thorsten Staake, Elgar Fleisch, Dirk Neumann, Jens Strüker, Koray Erek, Rüdiger Zarnekow, Holger Ziekow, Jörg Lässig; Business & Information Systems Engineering; 3 / 2014

Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitoring with Bagging Classifiers

O. Kramer, T. Klingenberg, M. Sonnenschein, O. Wilken; Logic Journal of the IGPL (JIGPAL); 2014

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2013

Designing dependable and sustainable Smart Grids - How to apply Algorithm Engineering to distributed control in power systems

Nieße, Astrid and Tröschel, Martin and Sonnenschein, Michael; Environmental Modelling & Software; 2013

Forschungsverbund Smart Nord - Dezentrale und selbstorganisierte Koordinationsverfahren für einen sicheren und zuverlässigen Netzbetrieb

Lehnhoff, Sebastian and Sonnenschein, Michael and Tröschel, Martin; Konferenz für Nachhaltige Energieversorgung und Integration von Speichern - NEIS 2013 - Tagungsband; 2013

Smart Grids - auf dem Weg zu intelligenten Stromnetzen

Sonnenschein, Michael; Zukunftswerkstatt Deutschland: Die Energiewende; 2013

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Smart Grids for Optimised Utilisation of Renewable Energy Supply

Sonnenschein, Michael and Tröschel, Martin and Lünsdorf, Ontje; Environmental Informatics and Renewable Energies - 27th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection; 2013

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Submeter based Training of Multi-class Support Vector Machines for Appliance Recognition in Home Electricity Consumption Data

Mittelsdorf, Marco and Hüwel, Andreas, Klingenberg, Thole and Sonnenschein, Michael; 05 / 2013

Using Grid Related Cluster Schedule Resemblance for Energy Rescheduling

Nieße, Astrid and Sonnenschein, Michael; Proceedings of the SMARTGREENS2013; 5 / 2013

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2012

Dezentrale und selbstorganisierte Koordination in Smart Grids

Sonnenschein, M. and Appelrath, H.-J. and Hofmann, L. and Kurrat, M. and Lehnhoff, S. and Mayer, C. and Mertens, A. and Uslar, M. and Nieße, A. and Tröschel, M.; Tagungsband VDE-Kongress 2012; 11 / 2012

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Energieberatung in Haushalten auf Basis des Smartmetering

Raabe, Thorsten and Sonnenschein, Michael and Beenken, Petra and Hüwel, Andreas and Meinecke, Christopher; Ökologisches Wirtschaften; 02 / 2012

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Ergebnisse eines Feldtests zum oszillationsfreien Lastmanagement von Kühl-/Gefriergeräten in Privathaushalten auf Basis von Temperaturvorgaben

Hinrichs, Christian and Lünsdorf, Ontje and Loewenstein, Claas and Sonnenschein, Michael; 11 / 2012

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Market-Based Self-Organized Provision of Active Power and Ancillary Services

Nieße, Astrid and Lehnhoff, Sebastian and Tröschel, Martin and Uslar, Mathias and Wissing, Carsten and Appelrath, H.-Jürgen and Sonnenschein, Michael ; Proceedings of IEEE COMPENG2012; 6 / 2012

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mosaik - Scalable Smart Grid Scenario Specification (to be published)

Schütte, Steffen and Sonnenschein, Michael; 12 / 2012

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mosaik - Smart Grid Simulation API - Toward a semantic based standard for interchanging Smart Grid simulations

Schütte, Steffen and Scherfke, Stefan and Sonnenschein, Michael; Proceedings of SMARTGREENS 2012 - International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems; 05 / 2012

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On Ensemble Classifiers for Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitoring

Kramer, Oliver and Wilken, Olaf and Beenken, Petra and Hein, Andreas and Hüwel, Andreas and Klingenberg, Thole and Meinecke, Christoph and Raabe, Thorsten and Sonnenschein, Michael; 03 / 2012

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2011

Einsatz thermischer Speichergeräte zum Lastausgleich

Lünsdorf, Ontje and Sonnenschein, Michael; 10 / 2011

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Maximierte PV-Integration in Niederspannungsnetzen durch intelligente Nutzung von Elektrofahrzeugen

Tröschel, Martin and Scherfke, Stefan and Schütte, Steffen and Appelrath, H.-Jürgen and Sonnenschein, Michael; 10 / 2011

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Möglichkeiten einer netzorientierten Betriebsweise zur weiteren Integration dezentraler Energieumwandlung auf Verteilnetzebene

Lünsdorf, Ontje and Sonnenschein, Michael and Mohrmann, Michael and Hofmann, Lutz and Gronstedt, Phillip and Kurrat, Michael; 10 / 2011

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Towards a Self-Organization Mechanism for Agent Associations in Electricity Spot Markets

Beer, Sebastian and Appelrath, H.-Jürgen and Sonnenschein, Michael; 10 / 2011

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Using Electric Vehicle Charging Strategies to Maximize PV-Integration in the Low Voltage Grid

Tröschel, Martin and Scherfke, Stefan and Schütte, Steffen and Nieße, Astrid and Sonnenschein, Michael; 10 / 2011

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2010

A pooling based load shift strategy for household appliances

Lünsdorf, Ontje and Sonnenschein, Michael; Integration of Environmental Information in Europe - 24th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection; 10 / 2010

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Demand Side Management und Demand Response

Sonnenschein, Michael and Rapp, Barbara and Bremer, Jörg; Handbuch Energiemanagement; 12 / 2010

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Energieinformatik 2010

Appelrath, Hans-Jürgen and Nieße, Astrid and Sonnenschein, Michael and Tröschel, Martin; 12 / 2010

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Integrative Energy Management in the Distribution Grid

Nieße, Astrid and Lünsdorf, Ontje and Mayer, Christoph and Scherfke, Stefan and Schütte, Steffen and Tröschel, Martin and Wissing, Carsten and Sonnenschein, Michael; 12 / 2010

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2009

Ein webbasiertes Data-Mining-Werkzeug zur Analyse ökologischer Daten

Stadler, M. and Sonnenschein, M.; Modellierung und Simulation von Ökosystemen - Workshop Kölpinsee 2005; 02 / 2009

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Explore - Ein Experimentier-Framework für zeitintensive Simulationen

Lünsdorf, Ontje and Sonnenschein, Michael; 12 / 2009

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Lastadaption von Haushaltsgeräten durch Verbundsteuerung

Lünsdorf, Ontje and Sonnenschein, Michael; Tagungsband zum 3. Statusseminar des FEN; 09 / 2009

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Modelling and evaluation of control schemes for enhancing load shift of electricity demand for cooling devices

Krause, W. and Vogel, U.; Environmental Modelling and Software; 01 / 2009

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2008

A modelling tool for interaction and correlation in demandside market behaviour

Bremer, J. and Andreßen, St. and Rapp, B. and Sonnenschein, M. and Stadler, M.; Proceedings of the 1st European Workshop on Energy Market Modelling using Agent Based Computational Economics.; 01 / 2008

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Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik zum effizienten Stromverbrauch.

Nebel, W. and Sonnenschein, M. and Appel, J.-E.; Einblicke ; 01 / 2008

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The LEDA Traitbase: A database of life-history traits of Northwest European flora.

Kleyer, M. and Bekker, R.M. and Knevel, I.C. and Bakker, J.P and Thompson, K. and Sonnenschein, M. and Poschlod, P. and Van Groenendael, J.M. and Klimeš, L. and Klimešová, J. and Klotz, S. and Rusch, G.M. and Hermy, M. and Adriaens, D. and Bo; 01 / 2008

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2007

The Adaptive Fridge - Comparing different control schemes for enhancing load shifting of electricity demand.

Stadler, M. and Krause, W. and Sonnenschein, M. and Vogel, U.; 21st Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection - Enviroinfo Warsaw 2007; 01 / 2007

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2006

A Modelling and Simulation Enviroment for Real-time Pricing Scenarios in Energy Markets

Sonnenschein, Michael and Stadler, Michael and Rapp, Barbara and Bremer, Joerg and Brunhorn, St.; EnviroInfo 2006 - Managing Environmental Knowledge; 01 / 2006

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Info-X - Ein Informationssystem zur Verwaltung simulationsbasierter ökologischer Studien

Finke, J. and Sonnenschein, M.; Modellierung und Simulation von Okosystemen. Workshop Kölpinsee; 06 / 2006

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Web-based tools for data analysis and quality assurance on a life-histroy trait database of plants of Northwest Europe.

Stadler, M. and Ahlers, D. and Bekker, R.M. and Finke, J. and Kunzmann, D. and Sonnenschein, M.; 01 / 2006

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2005

A web-based reviewing process guidance system for a ecological database of plant traits

Ahlers, D. and Finke, J. and Stadler, M. and Sonnenschein, M.; Informatics for Environmental Protection - Enviroinfo Brno 2005; 01 / 2005

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LEDA Traitbase - Eine Datenbank funktionaler Merkmale von Pflanzen Nordwest Europas.

Stadler, M. and Sonnenschein, M.; Modellierung und Simulation von Ökosystemene - Workshop Kölpinsee 2003; 01 / 2005

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Using data mining techniques for exploring the key features of plant dynamics upon a newly built plant trait data

Stadler, M. and Bekker, R. M. and Finke, J. and Kunzmann, D. and Sonnenschein, M.; Informatics for Environmental Protection - Enviroinfo Brno; 01 / 2005

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Using data mining techniques for exploring the key features of plant dynamics upon a newly built plant trait database.

Stadler, M. and Bekker, R. M. and Finke, J. and Kunzmann, D. and Sonnenschein, M.; Informatics for Environmental Protection - Enviroinfo Brno 2005; 09 / 2005

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2004

Data Quality, Abstraction and Aggregation in the Leda Traitbase

Kunzmann, D. and Schlegelmilch, J.; "Sharing" - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference Informatics for Environmental Protection.; 01 / 2004

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Meta-X: Generic Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

Grimm, V. and Lorek, H. and Finke, J. and Köster, F. and Malachinski, M. and Sonnenschein, M. and Moilanen, A. and Storch, I. and Wissel, Ch. and Frank, K.; Biodiversity and Conservation 13; 04 / 2004

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2003

A Software Tool for Assessing the Effect of Traffic on Wildlife Populations

Finke, J. and Köster, F. and Sonnenschein, M.; 01 / 2003

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2002

An Information System for the Management of Ecological Simulations

Köster, Frank and Finke, Jens and Frank, Karin and Sonnenschein, Michael; Environmental Communication in the Information Society; 01 / 2002

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Meta-X -- Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

Frank, Karin and Lorek, Helmut and Köster, Frank and Sonnenschein, Michael and Wissel, Christian and Grimm, Volker; 01 / 2002

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Vom okologischen Modell zum Simulationswerkzeug fur das Natur- und Umweltmanagement am Beispiel ANITRAX

Köster, Frank and Frank, Karin and Malachinski, Michael and Barisch, Stefan and Sonnenschein, Michael; Simulation in Umwelt- und Geowissenschaften; 01 / 2002

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2001

An Approach to the Creation of Individual-Oriented Models from Databases

Köster, Frank and Abels, T. and Sonnenschein, M.; Simulation in the Health and Medical Sciences; 01 / 2001

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Modelling of a Library with THORNs

Köster, Frank and Schof, Stefan and Sonnenschein, Michael and Wieting, Ralf; Concurrent Object Oriented Programming and Petri Nets; 01 / 2001

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2000

Combining Methodical Procedures from Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Individual-Oriented Simulation -- Data Mining in Time Series

Köster, Frank and Radtke, Roland and Westphal, Bernd and Sonnenschein, Michael; Medical Data Analysis (ISMDA 2000); 01 / 2000

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Ein Simulationswerkzeug zum praktischen Einsatz in Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung - ExiDlg

Köster, Frank and Westphal, Bernd and Meyer, Wolfgang and Sonnenschein, Michael; Frontiers in Simulation, Simulationstechnik - 14. Symposium in Hamburg; 01 / 2000

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Eine Unterstützung umweltepidemiologischer Untersuchungen durch die integrierte Anwendung individuenorientierter Simulationen und Techniken des Knowledge Discovery in Databases

Köster, Frank and Stephan, Th. and Finke, Jens and Sonnenschein, Michael; Frontiers in Simulation, Simulationstechnik - 14. Symposium in Hamburg; 01 / 2000

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Meta-X -- Ein Werkzeug zur vergleichenden Szenarienanalyse von Metapopulationsmodellen

Lorek, Helmut and Finke, Jens and Malachinski, Michael and Sonnenschein, Michael; Simulation in Umwelt- und Geowissenschaften; 01 / 2000

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Software tools to support individual-oriented modelling and simulation in ecology

Vogel, Ute and Köster, Frank and Lorek, Helmut and Sonnenschein, Michael; Systems analysis modelling simulation (SAMS); 01 / 2000

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1998

Die Entwicklung eines Computer-Werkzeugs fur Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung

Lorek, Helmut and Frank, Karin and Köster, Frank and Vogel, Ute and Grimm, Volker and Wissel, Christian and Sonnenschein, Michael; Umweltinformatik 98 Vernetzte Strukturen in Informatik, Umwelt und Wirtschaft, 12. Internationales Symposium Informatik fur den Umweltschutz der Ges; 01 / 1998

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Individual-oriented Modeling and Simulation - An Approach to Support Epidemiological Research

Köster, Frank and Sonnenschein, Michael; Medical Science Simulation Conference; 01 / 1998

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1997

Konzeption und Realisierung eines Simulations-Tools fur den Naturschutz

Lorek, Helmut and Köster, Frank and Sonnenschein, Michael and Vogel, Ute; 11. Symposium Simulationstechnik, ASIM `97; 01 / 1997

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Werkzeugunterstützung zum individuenorientierten Modellieren, Experimentieren und Auswerten am Beispiel des Projekts WESP

Köster, Frank and Lorek, Helmut and Sonnenschein, Michael and Vogel, Ute; 7. Treffen des AK 5 der GI-Fachgruppe 4.6.; 01 / 1997

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Zur Effizienz verteilter Simulation von THOR-Netzen

Schöf, Stefan and Sonnenschein, Michael; 4. Workshop Algorithmen und Werkzeuge fur Petrinetze der GI-Fachgruppe 0.0.1; 01 / 1997

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Projects
of Prof. i.R. Dr. Michael Sonnenschein

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D-Flex

Dezentral und zentral gesteuertes Energiemanagement auf Verteilnetzebene zur Systemintegration erneuerbarer Energien

Duration: 2013 - 2015

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ECOTOOLS

Modelling and Simulation of Ecological Systems

Duration: 1994 - 2003

EnerGeoPlan

Regelbasierte, räumliche Optimierung von regenerativen Energieanlagen und Verbrauchern (sorry - only available in german)

Duration: 2011 - 2013

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GridSurfer

Integration der Elektromobilität in bestehende Energie- und Verkehrsnetze.

(Sorry - only available in german!)

Duration: 2009 - 2011

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iHEM

intelligentes Heimenergiemanagement (sorry - only available in German)

Duration: 2014 - 2017

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LEDA

Life-history traits of the Northwestern European flora: A data-base

Duration: 2002 - 2005

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mosaik

A framework for modular simulation of active components in Smart Grids

Duration: 2011 - open

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NEDS

Nachhaltige Energieversorgung Niedersachsen

Duration: 2015 - 2019

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SGTL

Smart Grid Teaching Lab – „Smart Grids in Lehre und Ausbildung erfahrbar machen“ (sorry - only availble in German)

Duration: 2016 - 2017

Smart Nord

Intelligent Distribution Grids in Northern Germany

Duration: 2012 - 2015