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An attractive approach to managing electricity demand in the Smart Grid relies on real-time pricing (RTP) tariffs, where customers are incentivized to quickly adapt to changes in the cost of supply. However, choosing amongst competitive RTP tariffs is difficult when tariff prices change rapidly. The problem is further complicated when we assume that the price changes for a tariff are published ...

Crowdsourcing annotation is a recent development since a complete and elaborate annotation of the content of an image is an extremely labour-intensive and time consuming task. In this paper we examine the possibility to build accurate visual models for keywords created through crowdsourcing. Specifically, 8 different keywords related to athletics domain have been modelled using MPEG-7 and Histo...

In recent years, firms in a number of industries have introduced wide menus of pricing plans that grant access to a virtually identical product under different pricing schemes. These menus of tariffs allow consumers to self-select into the tariff that best fits their demand. They include pure pay-per-use tariffs, tariffs where the consumer pays an access price, and a marginal price only for usa...

In many service industries, firms introduce three-part tariffs to replace or complement existing two-part tariffs. While both twoand three-part tariffs have been studied in the extant literature, to our best knowledge there have been no empirical studies of customer choice and usage when both types of tariffs are on offer. A pertinent question in that context is whether three-part tariff usage ...

Aggressive scaling of semiconductor devices exacerbates issues of reliability. Stochastic logic, which operates on probabilistic signals, takes advantage of randomness resulting in a more reliable system with simple hardware. In this paper, we present our stochastic design of low-pass (smoothing) and highpass (sharpening) filters. We modeled our design in Verilog and synthesized the design. The...

An integrated transport system is the way how to provide transport service in the region by integrating all modes of transport. The design of this system is connected with solving of several optimization problems such as coordination of connections in transport modes, optimization of connection supply, minimization of time losses related to the changing of travel connection and the design of th...

In this paper, four new voltage-mode first-order all pass filters are proposed. Each circuit employs two differential difference current conveyors (DDCC) and two passive components with no matching condition. The proposed circuits offer high-input and low-output impedance, low active and passive sensitivities, which is a desirable feature for the voltagemode systems. Non-ideal analysis and para...