Aggregator-activated demand response (DR) is widely recognised as a viable means for increasing the flexibility of renewable and sustainable energy systems (RSESs) necessary to accommodate high penetration variable renewables. To this end, by acting DR aggregators offering trading capabilities smaller customers, retailers unlock additional sources demand-side ensure cost-optimal operation RSESs...

a facility location is said to be competitive when other facilities are present in the market and new facilities have to compete with these existing facilities for a market share. in other words, in a competitive facility location problem we do not see monopoly that exists in classic location models. in such a situation, existing facilities react to locate new facilities by adjusting their attr...

Today’s batch computing systems derive from a job scheduling paradigm. In contrast, utility service environments assign measured quantities of resources to long-running customer activities according to policies for resource matching and allocation. In this paper we explore the duality between job scheduling and utility resource management using a leasing abstraction that generalizes reservation...

This paper presents a novel multi objective model for optimizing the purchase decision of a cloud computing services customer. The providers are typically offering consumers cloud computing varying information systems services. The cloud services consist of different functionalities at varying costs, and varying reliability. So the customer’s main objectives (based on the literature) are to max...

Data mining is the process of mining new non trivial and potentially valuable information from large data basis. Data mining has been used in the analysis of customer transaction in retail research where it is termed as market basket analysis. Earlier data mining methods concentrated more on the correlation between the items that occurs more frequent in the transaction. In frequent itemset mini...

Adaptive conjoint analysis (ACA) is a market research methodology for measuring utility in business-tobusiness and customer studies. Based on partial profiles, ACA tailors an experiment’s design to each respondent depending on their previously stated preferences, ordered in a self-assessment questionnaire. The aim of this paper is to describe advantages and disadvantages of using a partial-prof...

Active participation of customers in the management demand, and renewable energy supply, is a critical goal Smart Grid vision. However, this complex problem with numerous scenarios that are difficult to test field projects. Rich scalable simulations required develop effective strategies policies elicit desirable behavior from customers. We present versatile agent-based "factored model" enables ...

Present paper focuses on the overview of Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing is an Internet-based computing; where resources, software and information are provided to computers on-demand, like a public utility; is emerging as a platform for sharing resources like infrastructure, software and various applications. This paper does a literature survey on some of the prominent applications of Cloud Co...

We consider various axioms for customer behaviour using utility functions and socalled “reservation prices” and then based on these axioms, we discuss some mathematical models (employing integer programming, convex programming and classical nonlinear programming) for deciding on product prices to maximize the total profit (or perhaps another suitable objective function also involving minimizati...