plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (phev) technology shows great interest in the recent scientificliteratures. vehicle-to-grid (v2g) is a interconnection of energy storage of phevs and grid. byimplementation of v2g dependencies of the power system on small expensive conventional units canbe reduced, resulting in reduced operational cost. this paper represents an intelligent unitcommitment (uc) wi...

This article presents a Harmony Search Algorithm to solve the unit commitment (UC) problem. A micro grid includes various types of smart distributed generators, renewable generators, storage devices and controllable load. A micro grid must satisfy its local needs and should be under the hierarchical control of management system. Due to this combination of conventional and renewable sources, the...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the potential impact of two alcohol control policies under consideration in England: banning below cost selling of alcohol and minimum unit pricing. DESIGN Modelling study using the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model version 2.5. SETTING England 2014-15. POPULATION Adults and young people aged 16 or more, including subgroups of moderate, hazardous, and harmful drinkers. ...

In a stylized Neo-Keynesian model with Calvo-type price and wage stickiness, this paper evaluates the usefulness of delegating price level and nominal wage targets to a discretionary central bank when the monetary policy objectives are summarized by a utility-based loss function. Despite its ability to engender policy inertia, price level targeting is often dominated by inflation targeting when...

This paper presents eMediator, a next generation electronic commerce server that demonstrates some ways in which AI, algorithmic support, and game theoretic incentive engineering can jointly improve the eeciency of ecommerce. First, its conngurable auction house includes a variety of generalized combinatorial auctions, price setting mechanism, novel bid types, mobile agents, and user support fo...

This paper models sequential auctioning of two perfect substitutes by a strategic seller, who learns about demand from the first-auction price. The seller holds the second auction only when the remaining demand is strong enough to cover her opportunity cost. Bidding in anticipation of such a contingent future auction is characterized, including a sufficient condition for existence of an inverti...

in this paper price and non- price factors affecting the area of sugar beet cultivation was been studied, using a logarithmic model and a cross sectional data on 195 producers of sugar beet in khorasan province in 2003 producers were selected based on stratified random sampling method. results of study showed that percent of  sugar (an impostor), type of seed, yield of sugar beet in the last ye...

Unit commitment (UC) is a key operational problem in power systems used to determine an optimal daily or weekly generation commitment schedule. Incorporating uncertainty in this already difficult mixed-integer optimization problem introduces significant computational challenges. Most existing stochastic UC models consider either a two-stage decision structure, where the commitment schedule for ...

This research examines how package size can influence quality judgments for packaged goods, and also identifies a price-based mechanism for the observed size–quality relationship. Results from several studies show that a product in a smaller package is rated more favorably than the equivalent product in a larger package. Further, this effect is due to the smaller package being associated with a...