The paper adopts the Conjectural Variation model for investigating firms’ strategic behaviors in the wholesale electricity market. The aim of the proposed approach is providing market actors with a tool able to simulate the oligopolistic market models. The tool, utilized by a Generating Company (GenCo), permits to foresee the rivals’ behaviors and builds the suitable supply bid curve for its ow...

This paper provides a self scheduling tool for price taker Gencos. This methodology is based on Robust Optimization (RO) to deal with the uncertainties of market price values in the dayahead electricity pool market. The Genco is assumed to be the entity who decides about the operating schedules of its thermal units and Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) units. The benefits of Genco brought by...

In this research, a factorial 4×3×4 with 4 replications in Completely Randomized design was used to study the effects of different auxin treatments (4 levels), pH(2 levels) and cultivars (3 levels) on regeneration and rooting of in vitro shoot tips excised from shoots cultured on media supplemented with 1.5-2 mg/l BA. The results showed both auxins (NAA and IBA) produced callus in the bases of ...

Genetic Programming involves the evolution of computer programs, which are usually represented by trees composed by functions and terminals. In order to assign fitness, one must evaluate the programs, which is the most time demanding step of GP. In nowadays standard approaches, the evaluation involves an interpretation step. To avoid this step, which significantly slows the algorithm, some rese...

During the past decade psychological stress has been associated with an increased risk for periodontal disease (Kurer et al, 1995; Linden et al, 1996; Croucher et al, 1997; Deinzer et al, 1998; Genco et al, 1999; Hugosson et al, 2002; Pistorius et al, 2002; Vettore et al, 2003). While the mechanism for a possible association is poorly understood and has not yet been securely established, severa...

This paper presents a novel approach to the (generation maintenance scheduling) GMS problem in electricity markets. The main contribution of this study is the modeling of a coordination procedure for an (independent system operator) ISO, based on a game-theoretic framework for the GMS problem. The GMS process of generation companies (Gencos) is designed as a non-cooperative dynamic game, and th...

As many manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and logistics firms adopt RFID, the technology is becoming pervasive in the supply chain. Although its advocates include retail giants such as Wal-Mart, not all companies are enthusiastic about its benefits. It is not clear whether RFID is a boon or a curse to the supply chain—its market growth may just be an issue of compliance. To establish the ...

In deregulated electricity markets, generation companies (GENCO) try to maximize their economic benefits considering the demand, transmission network condition, and other participants’ behaviors. The increasing penetration of renewable sources such as wind power with intermittent nature poses several challenges participation GENCOs in market. Thus, this paper presents a stochastic bilevel optim...

Successful privatization in other sectors leads to a restructuring the power sector. The same practice has been adopted electrical industry with deregulated electricity market (EM). This enables competition among generating companies (Genco’s) for maximizing their profit and it plays central role. With this aim, each Genco gives higher bid that may result risk of losing opportunity get selected...