We analyze the cost-effectiveness of electric utility rate payer–funded programs to promote demand-side management (DSM) and energy efficiency investments. We develop a conceptual model that relates demand growth rates to accumulated average DSM capital per customer and changes in energy prices, income, and weather. We estimate that model using nonlinear least squares for two different utility ...

A cost efficient process is the goal of every part of the wood processing chain. It is directly related to a yield that is gained out of a raw material. On the other hand these processes have to deliver a certain product quality in order to satisfy customer needs. Very often a tradeoff has to be made between the yield and the product quality through optimization processes. The main objective of...

AOS?'RAC?' The paper presents a parallel but approximate krersion of the exact recursive least squares dgorithm. This algorithm, which we call the Parallel &cursive Least Sqcares (PRLS) algorithm has been applied to adaptive Volterra filters. I t has advantages of reduced cost per iteration and substantial reduction in waputational time per iteration if more than one processor is used. The algo...