A new model to deal with the short-term generation scheduling problem for hydrothermal systems is proposed. Using genetic algorithms (GAs), the model handles simultaneously the subproblems of short-term hydrothermal coordination, unit commitment, and economic load dispatch. Considering a scheduling horizon period of a week, hourly generation schedules are obtained for each of both hydro and the...

As a general branch of project scheduling problems, resource investment problem (RIP) considers resource availabilities as decision variables to determine a level of employed resources minimizing the costs of the project. In addition to costs (cash outflows), researchers in the later extensions of the RIP took payments (cash inflows) received from clients into account and used the net present v...

Home Energy Management Systems (HEMSs) have become necessary due to energy security and climate change concerns. Scheduling the operating time of household appliances is one most effective strategies used by HEMSs reduce electricity costs, with several studies proposing optimization for scheduling home grid usage cost. This work considers costs from Renewable Sources (RESs) Storage (ESSs) in ap...

In Dynamic Data-Driven Application Systems (DDDAS), applications must dynamically adapt their behavior in response to objectives and conditions that change while deployed. Often these applications may be safety critical or tightly resource constrained, with a need for graceful degradation when introduced to unexpected conditions. This paper begins by motivating and providing a vision for a dyna...

Keywords • Combinatorial optimisation • Compilers (Computer programs) • Scheduling The topic for this dissertation is the optimisation of computer programs, as they are being compiled, using discrete optimisation techniques. The techniques introduced aim to optimise the runtime performance of programs executing on certain types of processors. A very important component of this dissertation is t...

Nowadays, nurses scheduling is one of the most important challenges with which health care centers are encountered. The significance of nurses’ work quality has led researchers to be concerned about scheduling problems, which have an impact on nurses’ performance. Observing the interests of hospital and patients, providing their satisfaction, and meeting their needs are among the main objective...

Background: Literature abounds with various techniques for efficiency measurement of health care organizations (HCOs), which should be used cautiously and appropriately. The present study aimed at discovering the rules regulating the interplay among the number of inputs, outputs, and decision- making units (DMUs) and identifying all methods used for the measurement of Iranian HCOs and criticall...

for last years, the evolution of new issues has incited a great development of the transportation system. in this paper, we discuss ingredients of its (intelligent transportation system) that are inter-vehicle communication (ivc) or what can call vehicular ad hoc networks (vanet), which are special type of manet. we will survey the main issues relevant to vanet in detail with providing a concep...

In this work, the online printing shop scheduling problem introduced in (Lunardi et al., Mixed Integer Linear Programming and Constraint Models for Online Printing Shop Scheduling Problem, Computers & Operations Research, to appear) is considered. This challenging real problem, that emerged nowadays industry, corresponds a flexible job with sequencing flexibility; it presents several complicati...