This paper presents an optimization model and its application to a generation expansion planning problem. The proposed model has a generalized network structure and is exploited effectively by Benders’ decomposition algorithm, where a master problem generates trial expansion plans and a set of subproblems compute production cost and system reliability for the trial plan. The applicability of ou...

A new approach for solving reactive power planning problem is presented, which is based on dynamic programming and the use of a sensitivity approach to obtain candidate buses for allocation of reactive power devices in power systems. Once the set of candidate buses has been defined, the program gives the location and size of the reactive sources needed to satisfy operating and security constrai...

Rather than begin by discussing the points where I seem to be in disagreement with Chapman and Schoppers, let me start with something about which we seem to concur: The work on reactive plans can be broken into two parts. First is the work on pure reactive plans, which specify actions for an agent to take in all situations. Second is the work on caching reactive plans, which specify actions in ...

The hypothesis that subjects' anxiety level will affect their tendency to accumulate reactive inhibition was tested. The study employed the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale to identify 120 high and low scorers and an inverted-number printing task to quantify reactive inhibition. The expectation was partially confirmed. With highly motivating instructions, high anxiety subjects accumulated more...

Planning optimal paths for large numbers of robots is computationally expensive. In this paper, we introduce a new framework for multirobot path planning called subdimensional expansion, which initially plans for each robot individually, and then coordinates motion among the robots as needed. More specifically, subdimensional expansion initially creates a one-dimensional search space embedded i...

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a self-configure network of sensor nodes communicate among themselves using radio signals and deployed in quantity to sense, monitor and to understand the physical world. A jammer is an entity which interferes with the physical transmission and reception of wireless communications. Reactive jamming attack is a major security problem in the wireless sensor netw...

In this paper a new market Based approach for transmission expansion planning in deregulated power systems is presented. Restructuring and deregulation has exposed transmission planner to new objectives and uncertainties. Therefore, new criteria and approaches are needed for transmission planning in deregulated environments. In this paper we introduced a new method for computing the Locational ...