In the deregulated electricity market, demand side participation has become a very important solution to real-time energy balance. Demand response programs are offered by the utility companies to reduce the load on the customer side with monetary incentives when the power demand is high. It is a popular tool used by electricity utilities to manage the supply load and reduce the operating cost. ...

This paper presents the design and pricing of financial contracts for the supply and procurement of interruptible electricity service. While the contract forms and pricing methodology have broader applications, the focus of this work is on electricity market applications, which motivate the contract structures and price process assumptions. In particular, we propose a new contract form that bun...

This paper introduces a novel technique for smooth and efficient zooming and panning based on dynamical systems in hyperbolic space. Unlike the technique of van Wijk and Nuij, the animations produced by our technique are smooth at the endpoints and when interrupted by a change of target. To analyze the results of our technique, we introduce world/screen diagrams, a novel technique for visualizi...

This paper presents a novel congestion management protocol applicable for both purebilateral and hybrid market structure. The mechanism is based on an Interruptible Physical Transmission Contract, which guarantees physical access to the transmission network users and provides financial incentives for the bilateral contract holders to forfeit the physical access to the transmission network. The ...

This paper presents an approach to performing time-critical collision detection for deformable objects. The deformable objects are represented by dense meshes and their deformations are steered by a coarser mesh (reduced model) based on explicit finite elements, to achieve an interruptible algorithm, we use a sphere tree constructed using an adaptive medial-axis approximation of the dense mesh....

The token flow semantics of UML 2 activity diagrams is formally defined using Abstract State Machines. Interruptible activity regions and multiplicity bounds for pins are considered for the first time in a comprehensive and rigorous way. The formalisation provides insight into problems with the UML specification, and their solutions. It also serves as a basis for an integrated environment suppo...

Intelligent non-player characters that exhibit realistic ambient behaviors produce more captivating and immersive stories for the player. However, the creation of nonrepetitive and entertaining behaviors is challenging, since it involves writing complex custom scripting code for thousands of characters in a common game adventure. This demonstration describes the generation of motivational behav...

The properties of viable mutants of bacteriophage T5 that lack, singly, each of the four major sites at which single-chain interruptions normally occur in T5 DNA are described. The mutations responsible for loss of each interruption were mapped by analysis with HhaI, a restriction endonuclease with a cleavage site (pGCGC) that occurs at the 5' termini of the major interruptions (B. P. Nichols a...

Demand-side management (DSM) proved to be a conventional concept emanates from the need seen as a means of reducing peak electricity demand and in which a power utility, such as an vertically integrated utility or State Electricity Boards (SEB) manages the demand for power among its customers to meet its current and future needs, so that the utilities can adjourn building further capacity. The ...