A transmission line fault generates transient high frequency travelling waves (TWs) that propagate through the entire network. The location can be determined by recording instants at which incident arrive various points in In single end-based methods, wave arrival time and its subsequent reflections from point are used to identify location. heavily branched distribution networks, magnitude of t...

In this paper, we propose a methodology for training a new model of artificial neural network called the generalized radial basis function (GRBF) neural network. This model is based on generalized Gaussian distribution, which parametrizes the Gaussian distribution by adding a new parameter t. The generalized radial basis function allows different radial basis functions to be represented by upda...

This paper integrates competitive pricing and network design problems for the short life cycle products. The pricing problem determines selling prices of the products for different life cycle phases in a competitive market, as well as acquisition management of returned products. Besides, the selling and acquisition prices are related to the distance between distribution centers and customers. T...

The classical PERT approach uses the path with the largest expected duration as the critical path to estimate the probability of completing a network by a given deadline. However, in general, such a path is not the most critical path (MCP) and does not have the smallest estimate for the probability of completion time. The main idea of this paper is derived from the domination structure between ...