This article describes how a medium-sized, Midwestern power company implemented an IT alignment planning process. The IT alignment planning process was a successful four-year activity that involved, first, a pilot implementation and then a companywide implementation of the IT alignment planning process. Designed to be flexible and to dovetail with corporate strategic planning processes, IT alig...

semantic models of both operational plans and operational environments to realign and relate data as well as enable automated reasoning and inferencing across those models. With the CAPE-based solutions in play, cross-domain commanders and staffs, as well as interagency, coalition, and nongovernmental organizations, will be able to communicate operational meaning and intent in a more structured...

Local heterogeneity of the frequency response modern grids becomes more severe than ever before due to 1) weaker grid connection strength brought by favorable interconnection, and 2) uncertainties less system inertia increasing renewable integration. This dominant characteristic is difficult be accurately characterized evaluated classic aggregated (SFR) model. Therefore, this paper proposes a f...

Land Use and Transport Integrated models (LUTIs) are promising tools for urban planning. Although a large literature is dedicated to these models, little attention has been paid to them as operational tool for planners and few efforts have been made by academics to fill the gap between lab application and operational use for planning practice. We shed light on what would make them accepted and ...

Major problems faced by the multi-outlet retailer include those of strategic planning, tactical decisions and operational control. The strategic planning questions include: How many outlets should be built in the next Y years? In what cities should they be built? When? Tactical decisions concern the selection of a particular site: What is the potential of a particular site? What are the charact...

This paper assesses the impacts of incorporating short-term generation dispatch into long-term generation portfolio planning frameworks. A case study of a power system with coal, combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT), open cycle gas turbine (OCGT) and wind generation options highlights that incorporating operational criteria into the long-term generation investment and planning analysis can have op...

This paper proposes a trajectory planning and tracking approach for cylindrical heat exchanger process that is considered, under some assumptions, as a bilinear system. The proposed technique is based on orthogonal functions and especially the use of operational integration and product matrices. These operational tools allow the conversion of a bilinear differential state equation into an algeb...

The capacity planning and operation problem of a multi-purpose water reservoir has been extensively studied in the literature. Optimization techniques, especially linear programming, have been used quite successfully. Although most models are robust enough as planning tools, they fall short of providing an operational policy for the shorter term. In this paper, we consider the operation of a mu...