Good morning, Mr. Chairman, I am Dr. Michael Durham, President of ADA Environmental Solutions (ADA-ES). ADA-ES is a company that develops and commercializes novel air pollution control technology for the power industry. We are currently managing a $6.8 million program involving a team of the-nations leading engineers and scientists to scale-up and demonstrate sorbent-based mercury control techn...

This paper presents a case study of a digital signature solution implementation for a healthcare organization that provides disability evaluation services for various government agencies and private companies. One service the company provides for its clients is online disability report generation and electronic report submission. When generating these disability reports, the signature of the ex...

In recent years, incremental rate of electrical demands made many challenges for policy makers of power systems. Besides, due to economic crisis and environmental concerns about the air pollution, the new investments in thermal power generation units have experienced a noticeable reduction. For this reason, the power system operators should propose novel approaches to make a balance between inc...

This article addresses the supply and pricing of backup power to be provided by local distribution companies to industrial self-generators. Optimal self-generation investment and backup power contracting strategies for self-generators are characterized. The paper characterizes welfare-optimal pricing and second-best pricing for a local distribution company (Disco). The paper shows that optimal ...

He has published several papers in the communication networks field. His area of research is focused on scheduling and quality of service (QoS) provisioning techniques for high speed switch fabrics and cable modems. About Zagros Networks Zagros Networks is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland focused on building silicon and software solutions for next generation ...

We study the supply chain problem of a large international pulp producer with five pulp mills located in Scandinavia. The company currently uses manual planning for most of its supply chain, which includes harvesting and transportation of pulp, production scheduling and distribution of products to customers. We have developed two new mixed integer models that determine daily supply chain decisi...