The Greater Tehran Electricity Distribution Company (GTEDC) is actively pursuing more and more developments to achieve its visions as a smart grid. In this paper the developments of SCADA systems in GTEDC operation area is represented. It includes the philosophy and architectural design of different levels of smart grid vision in GTEDC, their interactions, SCADA software structure, and communic...

Caveat is a static analysis tool designed to help verify safety critical software. It operates on ANSI C programs. It was developed by CEA, the French nuclear agency and is used as an operational tool by Airbus-France and EdF, the French electricity company. It is mainly based on Hoare Logic and rewriting of first order logic predicates. The main features of Caveat are property synthesis, navig...

In this position paper we are concerned by modelling the impact of change due to the integration of COTS (commercial offthe-shelf) systems in an organisation. We advocate a position that suggests a model driven paradigm to reason about change in a goal driven manner. The suggested goal driven approach is sketched and exemplified with the integration of a COTS system in an electricity supply com...

Early 2009, the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development (KRD) decided to start a procurement procedure for E-valg 2011, an e-voting pilot project for the municipal and regional elections of 2011. The Norwegian companies Computas and Acando formed a consortium together with the Estonian company Cybernetica, the company behind the successfull electronic elections in Estoni...

In terms of transfer entropy, we investigate the strength and the direction of information transfer in the US stock market. Through the directionality of the information transfer, the more influential company between the correlated ones can be found and also the market leading companies are selected. Our entropy analysis shows that the companies related with energy industries such as oil, gas, ...

In today’s business environment, paper companies are looking for new avenues to lower energy and operating costs. There is a growing awareness that centrifugal pump optimization can significantly reduce electrical energy demand while improving pump and process reliability. Proper pump selection, sizing and operation are important to mill economic performance. Historically, pump design has focus...

UK electricity market changes provide opportunities to alter households’ electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall electricity network. Work on clustering similar households has concentrated on daily load profiles and the variability in regular household behaviours has not been considered. Those households with most variability in regular activities may be the most receptive to ...

UK electricity market changes provide opportunities to alter households’ electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall electricity network. Work on clustering similar households has concentrated on daily load profiles and the variability in regular household behaviours has not been considered. Those households with most variability in regular activities may be the most receptive to ...