Strategic planning approach for optimising investment at WWTPs

DESASS: A software tool for designing, simulating and optimising WWTPs

This paper presents a very useful software tool to design, simulate and optimise wastewater treatment plants. The program is called DESASS (DEsign and Simulation of Activated Sludge Systems) and has been developed by CALAGUA research group. The mathematical model implemented is the Biological Nutrient Removal Model No.1 (BNRM1) which allows simulating the most important physical, chemical and b...

Strategic Investment Model for Future Distribution Network Planning

This paper presents the applications of the developed Strategic Investment Model in the Flexible Plug and Play (FPP) project to determine the optimal network investment portfolio. The Model optimises the investment in smart grid technologies such as Quadrature-boosters, DLRs, SVCs, novel protection systems to improve reverse power flow capability as well as traditional network investment in lin...

CSF Approach for IT Strategic Planning

Although the purpose of strategic planning is straightforward to outline where an organization wants to go and how it’s going to get there its nature is complex and dynamic. Two techniques, the critical success factor (CSF) method and future scenario planning, can augment strategic planning efforts by illuminating an organization’s present situation and potential future. This paper explores the...

Strategic Planning for Islamic-Iranian City

Strategic Investment Planning by Using Dynamic Decision Trees

In this paper we shall represent strategic planning problems by dynamic decision trees, in which the nodes are projects that can be deferred or postponed for a certain period of time. Using the theory of real options an enhanced option pricing method is provided, where the relationship of investments is taken into consideration as well, and the optimal path of the decision tree, i.e. the path w...