In practical situations, distribution network loads are the mixtures of residential, industrial, and commercial types. This paper presents a hybrid optimization algorithm for the optimal placement of shunt capacitor banks in radial distribution networks in the presence of different voltage-dependent load models. The algorithm is based on the combination of Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Binary Part...

Heritability and repeatability and genetic and phenotypic correlations were estimated for trotting race records with linear and generalized linear models using 510,519 records on 17,792 Finnhorses and 513,161 records on 25,536 Standardbred trotters. Heritability and repeatability were estimated for single racing time and earnings traits with linear models, and logarithmic scale was used for rac...

Optimization and reduction of costs in management of distribution and transportation of commodity are one of the main goals of many organizations. Using suitable models in supply chain in order to increase efficiency and appropriate location for support centers in logistical networks is highly important for planners and managers. Graph modeling can be used to analyze these problems and many oth...

according to the low efficiency of irrigation and drainage networks and water distribution in iran, simulating water flow and sensitivity structures and networks is considered as a new approach to evaluate the performance hydroelectric projects in the country. in this study, because of reduced water supply and distribution, especially in downstream irrigation and drainage networks varamin to ev...

extended abstract abstract pressure management is an effective method for water demand management. for evaluation of the effects of pressure changes on leakage level of water networks, the favad equation is usually used. however, in this equation, exponent of pressure parameter (n) needs to be determined. for estimation of n, either some information about the leak opening is necessary or networ...

We consider a family of long-range percolation models (Gp)p>0 on Zd allowing dependence between edges and having these connectivity properties for p ∈ (1/d,∞): (i) the degree distribution of vertices in Gp has a power law distribution, (ii) the graph distance between points x and y is bounded by a multiple of logpd logpd |x − y| with probability 1 − o(1), and (iii) an adversary can delete a rel...

Data dissemination or diffusion service is the process of distributing a certain amount of information to the users such as vehicle drivers or mobile users especially in wireless networks. It also plays a significant role in numerous applications of Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs). Data Dissemination problem has been addressed by many researchers so far in many contexts. This paper presents ...

In 2000, Lee and Chang proposed a user identification scheme with key distribution preserving anonymity for distributed computer networks. Recently, Wu and Hsu pointed out that there are two weaknesses in the LeeChang scheme. They further not only proposed a new scheme to remedy the security leaks of the Lee-Chang scheme, but also reduced computation complexities and communication cost as compa...