Purpose - This research establishes an evaluation index system and calculation method for the China's maritime power construction index (CMPCI). It has conducted practical tests on the progress of China's maritime power construction since the 12th-13th Five-Year Plans. This paper conducts a...

This paper investigates semi-online scheduling problems on two parallel identical machines under a grade of service (GoS) provision. We consider two different semi-online versions where the optimal offline value of the instance is known in advance or the largest processing time of all jobs is...

During the 2006–2008 period, there were 386 demonstration projects for renewable energy application buildings (REAB) organised by Chinese government, with a total area of approximately 40,420,000m2. By the end of 2011, the vast majority of these projects had been completed and had passed the...

With the increasing building energy consumption, the improvement of building energy efficiency (BEE) becomes a key part of the reduction of energy intensity in the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period (during 2006 and 2010) in China. For this reason, the China central government has enforced and...