This paper presents a case study of a digital signature solution implementation for a healthcare organization that provides disability evaluation services for various government agencies and private companies. One service the company provides for its clients is online disability report generation and electronic report submission. When generating these disability reports, the signature of the ex...

In recent years, incremental rate of electrical demands made many challenges for policy makers of power systems. Besides, due to economic crisis and environmental concerns about the air pollution, the new investments in thermal power generation units have experienced a noticeable reduction. For this reason, the power system operators should propose novel approaches to make a balance between inc...

This article addresses the supply and pricing of backup power to be provided by local distribution companies to industrial self-generators. Optimal self-generation investment and backup power contracting strategies for self-generators are characterized. The paper characterizes welfare-optimal pricing and second-best pricing for a local distribution company (Disco). The paper shows that optimal ...

He has published several papers in the communication networks field. His area of research is focused on scheduling and quality of service (QoS) provisioning techniques for high speed switch fabrics and cable modems. About Zagros Networks Zagros Networks is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland focused on building silicon and software solutions for next generation ...

Because of electricity markets, environmental concerns, transmission constraints, and variable renewable energy sources (VRES), coordinated operation demand response (DR) battery storage systems (BESS) has become critical. In turn, the optimal DR BESS by an entity can affect overall market outcomes network conditions. The is desirable for profit-seeking entity, but it may adversely cost revenue...

We study the supply chain problem of a large international pulp producer with five pulp mills located in Scandinavia. The company currently uses manual planning for most of its supply chain, which includes harvesting and transportation of pulp, production scheduling and distribution of products to customers. We have developed two new mixed integer models that determine daily supply chain decisi...

The objective of this experiment was evaluation of self-compatibility and identification, introduction and selection of late flowering genotypes as cultivars. This experiment was carried out in order to determine the best pollinator for two commercial almond cultivars, 'Shahrood 12' and 'Shahrood 21'. Applied pollinator cultivars were included pollen from 'Shahrood 21', 'Genco', 'Tuno', '5-15' ...

The objective of this experiment was to evaluate self-compatibility of two late blooming almond cultivars and identification and introduction of suitable pollinizers from late flowering genotypes, and evaluation of pollen source effect on fruit characteristics to earn high quality nuts for Iranian almond industry. This experiment was carried out in order to determine the best pollinizer for two...