in the restructured environment of electricity market, firstly the generating companies and the customers are looking for maximizing their profit and secondly independent system operator is looking for the stability of the power network and maximizing social welfare. in this paper, a one way auction in the electricity market for the generator companies is considered in both perfect and imperfec...

Today’s Pop Culture is tomorrow’s classic. Entertainment is often able to reflect a society’s questions and anxieties of the day. We will discuss how and why today’s Digital Generation has replaced their grandparents’ heroes and their parents’ anti-heroes by their very own avatars. How and why the empathy with heroes that has traditionally been utilized by movies has been gradually overtaken by...

Load forecasting has become one of the major areas of research in electrical engineering and is an important problem in operation and planning of electric power generation. Load forecasting is the technique for prediction of electrical load. STLF (Short term load forecast) is essential for Power system planning. In a deregulated market it is much need for a generating company to know about the ...

It is undeniable that report generation is one of the most important tasks in many companies regardless of the size of the company. A good report generation mechanism can increase a company’s productivity in terms of effort and time. This is more obvious in some startup companies, which normally use some in-house report generators. Application development could be complex and thus software deve...

This paper reflects the possibility of doing adaptations on a LMS depending on the necessities of a company or institution. In this case, ACEM allows the definition of course-level and platform-level reports and the automatic generation of certificates and diplomas for Moodle LMS. These adaptations are intended to complement all the different learning platforms by contributing added-value featu...

Scheduling any complicated job shop becomes increasingly more difficult when the cycle time is reduced. This paper will discuss the implementation of a simulationbased scheduling system that properly schedules parts in a two-plant operation. The system has allowed the company to reduce the cycle time by at least a week from two/three weeks to one/two weeks. As part of the project, the generatio...

The risks and returns associated with different choices of electricity generation technology cannot properly be considered in isolation. The paper considers their impact on an investing company, using Mean-Variance Portfolio (MVP) theory to identify optimal generation portfolios in liberalised electricity markets characterised by fuel, CO2, and electricity price risk. The paper demonstrates the...

This is a delightful book, and in some ways an alarming one. It deals with the special entertainment films for children, produced by Mary Field for the J. Arthur Rank Organisation between 1944 and 1950. She called the book "Good Company", because her aim was to see that for a few hours each week, children should have an opportunity of "intimacy with good example", believing that "the friends yo...

in the present study, a number of iranian it professionals and electronic commerce managers are surveyed in order to investigate their viewpoints about the level of importance for determinant factors affecting the generation of trust among the internet consumers. to accomplish this, a model, which is adopted from the existing models in the e-trust literature, is offered to represent the crucial...