This paper presents the optimal design and simulation of a grid-connected Photovoltaic (PV) system to supply electric power to meet the energy demand by Electrical Department in University of Tripoli Libya. Solar radiation is the key factor determining electricity produced by photovoltaic (PV) systems. This paper is designed to develop a novel method to calculate the solar photovoltaic generati...

This paper discusses aspects of outages in the electric transmission network in the Kosovo Power System caused by the atmospheric discharges. Frequency and location of the atmospheric discharges in Kosovo territory will be provided by a lightning location system ALARM (Automated Lightning Alert and Risk Management) and from the data from the Meteorological Department in Prishtina International ...

Computer-aided teaching tools have turned out to be an indispensable element of both classroom lectures and laboratory experiments. The application of market-ready mathematical and database programming software for teaching engineering course outline is well appreciated. This paper presents the utilization of LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) in introducing the featu...

We consider settings where owners of electric vehicles (EVs) participate in a market mechanism to charge their vehicles. Existing work on such mechanisms has typically assumed that participants are fully rational and can report their preferences accurately via some interface to the mechanism or to a software agent participating on their behalf. However, this may not be reasonable in settings wi...

It is well known that some XML elements correspond to objects (in the sense of object-orientation) and others do not. The question we consider in this paper is what benefits we can derive from paying attention to such object semantics, particularly for the problem of keyword queries. Keyword queries against XML data have been studied extensively in recent years, with several lowest-common-ances...

iii ABSTRACT Multi-Agent Systems play a very important role in Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Many multi-agent systems have been built to represent a variety of social structures, such as teams (formed by a team leader recruiting qualified members for problem solving), alliances (temporary groups formed by agents with similar goal structures), coalitions (similar to alliances except the m...

David Hurlbut, Keith Rogas, and Shmuel Oren David Hurlbut is Senior Economist at the Market Oversight Division of the Public Utility Commission of Texas in Austin. His duties involve monitoring activity in Texas’ deregulated wholesale power market, investigating anticompetitive practices and market abuses, and reviewing rules governing the wholesale power market. He holds a doctorate from the L...

The deregulation of the electric industry in the United States opens the power market to competition. Buyers and sellers of electric power will be competing for limited resources. Although regulators will attempt to limit such activity, when large amounts of money are at stake, the participants have incentives to engage in destabilizing behavior. The goal of this study is to model agent driven ...