The clearing land or clearing of oil palm plantations needs stakeholders‟ involvement in decision making, such as the role of government group, environmentalists, investors and the agricultural community groups from non-governmental organizations (NGO). This paper discusses about the Group Decision Support (GDS) that can be used for Oil Palm Plantation Land Clearing cases involving various stak...

In capacitated production systems at high utilization there exists a nonlinear relationship between the orders which are in process and the output. This nonlinear relationship can be described by nonlinear Clearing Functions. We show how a Clearing function will be estimated and integrate it into a model of order releases planning. We compare our model with two inventory management policies und...

This paper focuses on the polarization features during the tissue optical clearing process. Based on our previous anisotropic tissue model and polarization sensitive Monte Carlo simulation program, we simulated the influence of refractive index matching on polarized photons behaviors and observed the polarization parameters change with the clearing process. Using two methods: Mueller matrix pol...

This paper presents a framework to solve the strategic bidding problem of participants in an electricity market cleared by employing full AC Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) formulation. Traditionally, independent system operators (ISOs) leveraged DC (DCOPF) formulation settle market. The main quest this work is find what would be challenges and opportunities if ISOs leverage ACOPF as market-clearing...

The market clearing prices in deregulated electricity markets are volatile. Good market clearing price forecasting will help producers and consumers to prepare their corresponding bidding strategies so as to maximize their profits. Market clearing price prediction is a difficult task since bidding strategies used by market participants are complicated and various uncertainties interact in an in...

Clearinghouses support financial trades by keeping records of transactions and by providing liquidity through short-term credit that is periodically cleared by participants. We study efficient clearing arrangements for formal exchanges, where traders must clear with a clearinghouse, and for over-the-counter (OTC) markets, where trades can be cleared bilaterally. When clearing is costly, we show...

This thesis studies the stochastic clearing systems which are characterized by a nondecreasing stochastic input process {Y (t), t ≥ 0}, where Y (t) is the cumulative quantity entering the system in [0, t], and an output mechanism that intermittently and instantaneously clears the system. Examples of such systems can be found in shipment consolidation, inventory backlog, lot sizing, shuttle bus ...

As part of the day-ahead market clearing process, MISO solves one of the most challenging Security Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) models. With the footprint expansion and increased financial activities, the day-ahead market unit commitment may encounter performance challenges from time to time. This paper reviews MISO’s day-ahead market clearing process and identifies the factors contributi...

Background: Clearing is an important step in the preparation of histological sections, that removes alcohol and other dehydrants from tissues prior to infiltration of the embedding material (usually paraffin wax).Different types of clearing agents are chloroform, Xylene, Toluene, Paraffin, Methyl benzoate and methyl salicylate & Citrus fruit oils.The commonly used clearing agent is xylene that ...