It is now well known that flexibility of energy consumption can be harnessed for the purposes of grid-level ancillary services. In particular, through distributed control of a collection of loads, a balancing authority regulation signal can be tracked accurately, while ensuring that the quality of service (QoS) for each load is acceptable on average. In this paper it is argued that a histogram ...

Abstract: Mobile agent-based routing is a newly proposed routing technique for using in large networks. In order to save network resources, it is desirable to dispatch a small number of mobile agents to get a high probability of finding the destination (probability of success). Therefore, it is not only necessary but also important to analyze the searching activity and the population growth of ...

"...it is clear that RTOs are needed to resolve impediments to fully competitive markets." 2 The Commission identified the key role of RTOs in supporting competitive electricity markets. No matter what the name or governance structure, there must be an organization responsible for key coordination activities needed to make a market work. This is not an option, and the market cannot solve the pr...

This paper goes beyond a simple glance at the immediate results of the 1992 failure of the London Ambulance Service’s computer aided dispatch system and explores the sequence of events leading up to the incident in attempt to determine professional responsibility and how the project might have benefited from a more formal specification of the software system.

A two-stage stochastic program is formulated for day-ahead commitment of thermal generating units to minimize total expected cost considering uncertainties in the day-ahead load and the availability of variable generation resources. Commitments of thermal units in the stochastic reliability unit commitment (SRUC) are viewed as first-stage decisions, and dispatch is relegated to the second stage...

The schedule dispatch of batteries and operation of photovoltaic(PV) systems can create significant economic benefits for residents. This paper presents a model predictive control method to optimize the charge and discharge of batteries and operation of a PV system. The objective is to minimize the bill cost for customers with the prediction information of solar power generation, load consumpti...

Background In Denmark, all ambulance transports are dispatched through the Acute Medical Coordination Centre (AMK). Even though this unit is the only way to request an ambulance, it is experienced by many Emergency Technicians EMTs that the visitation based on patient illness and injury differs widely. The visitation is performed either by an AMK visitation officer (AMK-VO), or a doctor that ta...

Electric power industry should play a bigger role in energy conservation and emission reduction, while the ecosystem degradation rises because of the shortage of energy, the greenhouse effect and the environmental pollution. Power generation dispatch is the key practice in electric power industry. In this paper, the value based dispatch theory is proposed, which assign the value of the natural ...

Resource discovery in large-scale Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks is challenging due to lack of effective methods for guiding queries. Based on the observation that the effectiveness of P2P resource discovery is determined by the utilization of hints, i.e., a summary of where the resources are, scattered in the network, in this paper we propose the distance-aware bloom filters (DABF) that dissemina...

Items arrive at a processing plant at a Folsson rate X . At time T , all Items are dispatched from the system. An Intermediate dispatch time Is to be chosen to minimize the total wait of all Items. It Is shown that If the dispatch time must be chosen at time 0 then T/2 not only minimizes the expected total wait but it also maximizes the probability that the total wait is less than a for every a...