with the development of restructured power systems and increase of prices in some hours of day and increase fuel price, demand response programs were noticed more by customers. demand response consists of a series of activities that governments or utilities design to change the amount or time of electric energy consumption, to achieve better social welfare or some times for maximizing the benef...

This paper challenges conventional views of violent religious extremism, particularly those that emphasize militant theology. We offer an alternative analysis that helps explain the persistent demand for religion, the different types of religious that naturally arise, and the special attributes of the “sectarian” type. Sects are adept at producing club goods – both spiritual and material. Where...

In this paper we propose to use feedback control to automatically allocate disk bandwidth in order to match the rate of disk I/O to the real-rate [13] needs of applications. We describe a model for adaptive resource management based on measuring the relative progress of stages in a producer-consumer pipeline. We show how to use prefetching to transform a passive disk into an active data produce...

In this paper, we evaluate the stability of a plan solution at the task level and argue that it is important for task structure based multi-agent replanning. With a plan solution represented by a TÆMS (Task Analysis, Environment Modeling and Simulation) task structure, we define new metrics of the stability of a TÆMS solution and use it to rank and recommend plan candidates. We preliminarily ev...

The rise of online sharing systems offers consumers the opportunity to grant other consumers access to infrequent-use goods or spaces they own, or the opportunity to access those they do not. Thereby, consumers’ decision-making and usage behaviors are likely to change, which in turn will affect consumer surplus and thus social welfare. Within this paper, first steps towards understanding the ec...

This paper considers an asset model that generates a monetary equilibrium in which capital, government bonds, and fiat money are held as perfect substitutes. Due to a congestion effect, output per producer is a decreasing function of the aggregate capital stock, and this effect makes a legal restriction on capital accumulation welfare enhancing. The restriction considered is that the money to c...

The purpose of this article is to present an optimization model for designing an acceptance sampling plan based on cumulative sum of run length of conforming items. The objective is to minimize the total loss including both the producer and consumer losses. The concept of minimum angle method is applied to consider producer and consumer risks in the optimization model. Also the average number o...