Appropriate installation of renewable energy-based distributed generation units (RDGs) is one the most important challenges and current topics interest in optimal functioning modern power networks. Due to intermittent nature energy sources, allocation sizing RDGs, particularly photovoltaic (PV) wind turbine (WT), remains a critical task. Based on new metaheuristic known as Artificial hummingbir...

The air quality modeling community widely acknowledges that there are considerable uncertainties in the emission inventories used for modeling. Nonetheless, these uncertainties are typically ignored in air quality modeling applications. Three reasons for ignoring these uncertainties are (1) uncertainties in model inputs typically are not well quantified, (2) emissions and air quality modeling c...

The potential for reliably predicting relative binding enthalpies, ΔΔE, from a direct method utilizing molecular dynamics is examined for a system of three phosphotyrosyl peptides binding to a protein receptor, the Src SH2 domain. The binding enthalpies were calculated from the potential energy differences between the bound and the unbound end-states of each peptide from equilibrium simulations...

Given the real-world applications of Stackelberg security games (SSGs), addressing uncertainties in these games is a major challenge. Unfortunately, we lack any unified computational framework for handling uncertainties in SSGs. Current state-of-the-art has provided only compartmentalized robust algorithms that handle uncertainty exclusively either in the defender’s strategy or in adversary’s p...