This paper proposes an Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm to Generator Maintenance Scheduling (GMS) in competitive market. In the regulated market the problem of generating optimal maintenance schedules of generating units for the purpose of maximizing economic benefits and improving reliable operation of a power system, subject to satisfying system constraints. In case of deregulated market...

This paper analyzes whether the behavior of potential offenders can be guided by information on the actual detection probability transmitted by the policy maker. It is established that, when viewed as a cheap-talk game, the existence of equilibria with information transmission depends on the level of the sanction, the level of costs related to imposing the sanction, and the level of social harm...

a spring-stream called “ghadamgah” in fars province, southern iran, which holds more than 60 aquatic vertebrate and plant species belonging to 46 genera and 33 families is almost the biologically richest water body of fars province. the diversity is especially in its endemic fishes which are under threats nowadays. one of the factors, if not the one, which has kept this system more or less in i...

This work aims to analyze the evaluative construction of judgement president republic, in relation concepts Social Esteem and Sanction, discuss Heteroglossia Monoglossia presentin an editorial, published on Estadão newspaper. For that, we adopt as theoretical-methodological approach Appraisal system its Judgement Engagement subsystems (MARTIN; WHITE, 2005).The results indicatethe predominance j...

the impact of the international sanctions on the central bank of iran in 2013 and also accessibility of medicines in this country have received a lot of media coverage. in this study we used the data collected from a group of pharmacies all located in tehran to assess the potential effects of the banking sanctions on access to asthma medicines. data were collected from forty community pharmacie...

This article discusses the procedural basis for application of legal sanctions, need a sanction and its role in system means, by court, sanctions against entities citizens, as well norms principles, law enforcement acts, agreements, facts, subjective rights obligations, prohibitions, privileges, incentives penalties, documents on exercise etc. The also analyzes such issues financial suspension ...

Many countries rely on monitoring of unemployment insurance and welfare recipients and impose benefit sanctions in case of noncompliance with job search requirements to encourage job search and to prevent abuse of the social insurance system. This paper systematically analyzes the characteristics of optimal monitoring and sanctioning systems for the unemployed as a function of worker characteri...