We analyze the passengers' traffic pattern for 1.58 million taxi trips of Shanghai, China. By employing the non-negative matrix factorization and optimization methods, we find that, people travel on workdays mainly for three purposes: commuting between home and workplace, traveling from workplace to workplace, and others such as leisure activities. Therefore, traffic flow in one area or between...

Distribution of distributed generation resources in distribution systems has several advantages, including reducing losses, improving voltage profiles, reducing pollution, and increasing system reliability. However, one of the most important points regarding the placement of these resources in distribution networks is economic issues and the return on investment and the increase in profits from...

parameter estimation is an important task in the modeling, classification, and detection of radar clutters. radar clutters have stochastic characteristics. therefore, statistical distributions are usually used to describe the features of clutters better. k distribution is one of the most common models utilized to the simulation of clutters. this distribution, which consists of scale and shape p...

Abstract. This paper studies the effect of deviating from the normal distribution assumption when considering the power of two many-sample location test procedures: ANOVA (parametric) and Kruskal-Wallis (non-parametric). Power functions for these tests under various conditions are produced using simulation, where the simulated data are produced using MacGillivray and Cannon’s [10] recently sugg...

In this Chapter, we analyze performance of the 802.15.4 cluster in beacon enabled mode under the presence of key exchange protocol. We assume that all nodes are applying power management technique based on the constant event sensing reliability required by the coordinator. Power management generates random sleep times by every node which in average fairly distributes the sensing load among the ...

This paper deals with Student t-processes as studied in (Cufaro Petroni 2007). We prove and extend some conjectures expressed by Cufaro Petroni about the asymptotical behavior of a Student t-process and the expansion of its density. First, the explicit asymptotic behavior of any real positive convolution power of a Student t-density with any real positive degrees of freedom is given in the mult...

In this paper, a new method for modelling and estimation of reliability parameters of power transformer components in distribution and transmission voltage levels for preventive-corrective maintenance schedule of transformers is proposed. In this method, with optimal estimation of Weibull distribution parameters using least squares method and input data uncertainty reduction, failure rate and p...

The users of power distribution and transmission networks are generally guided to sustain advanced factor (PF) load as it is affecting the loss a feeder network where separately owns major influence on electric charges layout. Therefore, some cautious allotment schemes be incorporated an acceptable satisfying/penalizing policy for advanced/less PF users, independently. Keeping this in view, men...