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Date: 4 March 2026   Time: 15:00 - 16:00

Location: Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS Map 

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Speaker: Daphne Tuncer

Abstract: The engineered systems of a city have traditionally been operated in silos, per domain, following vertical mode of collaboration. In the recent years, a number of applications in different areas of city systems (e.g.,energy, built environment, transport) have however been exploring the potential of horizontal collaboration to develop new types of services, such as smart charging solutions, green computing services, or Mobility-as-a-Service. Under these configurations, system infrastructure management processes cannot only work on system-level targets when optimising operations. They also need to take an account of global cross-system objectives. From a management perspective, this requires the development of a functionality that enables the orchestration of coupled, heterogeneous system infrastructures. This talk will discuss our current work on how to effectively orchestrate system infrastructures in environments that are multi-stakeholders and inter-domain. In particular, we will present the knowledge orchestration platform that we have been developing to illustrate the functionality of a management procedure that is adapted to these types of environments on the smart building demonstrators of the living lab of the Energy4Climate multidisciplinary research center of Institut Polytechnique de Paris, in France.

Short bio: Daphne Tuncer is currently with Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussees, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France. For the past 18 years, she has been trying to understand how to manage the complexity of networked system infrastructures and resources. Daphne is the scientific co-chair the research action on smart grid at the Energy4Climate multi-disciplinary research center of Institut Polytechnique de Paris. She has a Ph.D. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London, UK.