A new market based approach for transmission expansion planning in deregulated environments is presented in this paper. In this approach, transmission-planning decisions are made based on the electric power market conditions. The main contribution of this research is 1) Introducing a new probabilistic tool for analyzing the electric market conditions, 2) Defining new criteria for ranking transm...

The International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) is a new journal that aims to stimulate not only inter-disciplinary research relating to health, but even an entire new generation of such journals. The challenges of improving human health worldwide clearly suggest ‘why’ such a journal is needed, but ‘how’ bridges and junctions across fields of study towards this end might be fo...

How does new media and technology influence migrants and their children? Based on a sample population of young Austrians of Turkish descent, this research project links questions of identity creation and social networks of the second generation with the controversial discourse about the potential usefulness and risks of new media and technologies. i We investigate the Internet use of members of...

Stentofon, a Norwegian company producing customized internal communication systems, uses SDL and automatic code generation for software development. A crucial issue for the success of the approach in this industrial context turns out to be efficient handling of system variants and evolution. The paper starts with a description of the approach to software development currently used at Stentofon,...

The deterministic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation has been used to investigate the nonlinear dynamics of magnetization and the specific loss power in magnetic nanoparticles with uniaxial anisotropy driven by a rotating magnetic field. We propose a new type of applied field, which is "simultaneously rotating and alternating," i.e., the direction of the rotating external field changes periodical...

Today, quality needs for both customer and software supplier are more complex and critical than ever. This paper presents a positioning of the current ISO standards presenting software quality engineering instruments, and identifies the phases of product development to which they map. Feedback collected by the ISO group that developed these standards has helped develop the new structure and con...