A novel approach is proposed in this paper to achieve the objective of real power loss minimization and voltage profile enhancement. Network reconfiguration and allocation of various DG units are used to meet the objective. Selective particle swarm Optimization (SPSO) and novel analytical techniques are used to solve the problem of network reconfiguration and allocation of DG units simultaneous...

In the current military environment, village searches are conducted daily by a variety of search team types. Staff officers planning these resource allocation problems currently rely on experience and simple data tables to develop the plans. The Robust People, Animals, and Robots Search (RoPARS) planning tool for village searches developed at Colorado State University can assist military planne...

In multimedia platform with many applications, reliability allocation plays an important role in the design of a software and has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Thus far, the issues of software reliability allocation have been discussed from many aspects, such as mathematical models and solutions to maximize the reliability. However, most of this research has concentrated on si...

Facility location-allocation models are used in a widespread variety of applications to determine the number of required facility along with the relevant allocation process. In this paper, a new mathematical model for the capacitated multi-facility location-allocation problem with probabilistic customer's locations and fuzzy customer’s demands under the Hurwicz criterion is proposed. This model...

Managing perishable food in a retail store is quite difficult because of the product’s short lifetime and deterioration. Many elements, such as price, shelf space allocation, and quality, which can affect the consumption rate, should be taken into account when the perishable food retail chain is designed. The modern tracking technologies provide good opportunities to improve the management of t...

This paper investigates the resource allocation problem in heterogeneous cognitive wireless networks (HCWNs), with the objective of improving the end-to-end quality of service (QoS) performance for the communication session which is based on multiple radio access technologies (Multi-RATs). The cognitive wireless networks (CWNs) share spectrum resource with primary users. The users with Multi-RA...

The implementation of MELD and PELD represented an enormous advance toward allocation of deceased donor livers according to objective criteria that reflect illness severity. PELD, developed using the Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation database, formed the basis of liver allocation for children (<18 years) (1). To acknowledge that a mathematical model cannot adequately reflect every indi...

The simulation of carbon allocation among plant organs is one of the weakest features of crop growth models. This paper briefly discusses five concepts of modelling carbon partitioning: 1. Descriptive allometry, proposing a predetermined ratio between the (relative) growth rates of plant organs; 2. Functional equilibrium, proposing an equilibrium between root and shoot activity; 3. Canonical mo...

We present the optimal consumption and investment strategy for an investor, endowed with labor income, searching to maximize utility from consumption and terminal wealth when facing a binding capital constraint of a European (constraint on terminal wealth) or an American (constraint on the wealth process) type. In both cases, the optimal strategy is proven to be of the option-based portfolio in...

Strategic-basic research refers to basic research conducted in strategically selected areas expected to be of social bene¢t. Recent literature on the processes of basic research and its links to applied research has not been widely discussed in relation to agricultural research. This may have important implications for the question of the optimal allocation of research resources. The links are ...