Nowadays, demand response programs (DRPs) play an important role in price reduction and reliability improvement. In this paper, an optimal integrated model for the emergency demand response program (EDRP) and dynamic economic emission dispatch (DEED) problem has been developed. Customer’s behavior is modeled based on the price elasticity matrix (PEM) by which the level of DRP is determined for ...

today, to increase effectiveness is a strategy for success of organizations and their viability. in health care organization not only service cost- effectiveness is a major problem for productivity and organizational management but also customer-centred is in first priority. because of these reasons, most of health organization trend to patient satisfaction for their viability. if complex proce...

in discussion relating to management, motivational factors are one of the major indicators and effective variables in organizational strategy and achieving job success. this study with the aim of cognition of the relation of some studied variables and the motive of achievement and success in cooperatives managers and determining the contribution of each factor by use of correlation and expost f...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is one of the key determinants for today’s organizational success. Therefore, companies spend a significant amount money each year on ICT, while not being sure that they will get good result. The purpose this study to identify dimensions indicators ICT performance evaluation suggesting model assessing it in organizations. This research mainly quali...

Routing in unstructured peer-to-peer system relies either on broadcasting (also called flooding) or on Routing Indices. An approach using Routing Indices is only scalable if the Routing Indices are of manageable size. In this paper, we present a strategy to prune Routing Indices based on the popularity of resources. The Routing Indices maintain routing information for queries to the most popula...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Computational fluid dynamics has become a popular tool for studying intracranial aneurysm hemodynamics, demonstrating success for retrospectively discriminating rupture status; however, recent highly refined simulations suggest potential deficiencies in solution strategies normally used in the aneurysm computational fluid dynamics literature. The purpose of the present st...

We studied 62 greater sandhill crane (Grus canadensis tabida) nests in northwestern Minnesota during 1989-1991 to document nest habitat use and selection, nest success, and factors associated with nest success. We recorded 15 habitat variables at each nest and at a randomly selected site in the same wetland. Nests were in basins 0.01-601 ha (Median = 2.2 ha) and at water depths 0-35.7 cm (Media...

Power indices such as the Banzhaf index were originally developed within voting theory in an attempt to rigorously characterise the influence that a voter is able to wield in a particular voting game. In this paper, we show how such power indices can be applied to understanding the relative importance of agents when we attempt to devise a coordination mechanism using the paradigm of social laws...