Abstract We formulate and compare optimization models of investment in renewable generation using a suite social planning that compute optimal capacity investments for hydro-dominated electricity system where inflow uncertainty results risk energy shortage. The optimize the expected cost expansion operation allowing hydro, geothermal, solar, wind, thermal plant, as well battery storage smoothin...

Based on the theory of complex network, this paper focuses on the planning of logistics nodes for strategic supply chain. I propose a practical mathematical modeling framework that simultaneously captures many practical aspects but still understated in the existing literatures of network planning problems. Moreover, capacity expansion and reduction scenarios are also analyzed as well as modular...

Coverage and capacity are important issues in the planning process for cellular third generation (3G) mobile networks. The planning process aims to allow the maximum number of users sending and receiving adequate signal strength in a cell. This paper describes the conceptual expressions require for network coverage and capacity optimization analysis, examines service quality issues, and present...

Cell capacity planning is a key phase of the expansion of cellular networks. The growth of communications demand requires improving the capacity of the networks regularly. However, cell capacity planning is difficult to achieve while it must take into account two conflicting objectives: minimising the blocking rate and reducing the interference. In TDMA systems, current literature offers few st...

The potential growth of railway traffic is expected to be substantial worldwide; hence, railway companies and agencies are looking for better tools to allocate their capital investments to capacity planning in the best possible way. This paper presents a comprehensive decision support framework with three stand-alone tools for strategic railway capacity planning: (1) “Alternatives Generator,” w...

this paper focuses on formulating capacity-price trade off problem in yield management for manufactur-ing industry by drawing motivation from the remarkable success of yield management (ym) implementation in airlines. in the current practice, there is no alternative and procedure for the manufacturer, as well as cus-tomers to take advantage of using the unfulfilled capacity in discounted offers...