We consider the wholesale electricity market prices in England and Wales during its complete history, where price-cap regulation divestment series were introduced at different points time. compare impact of these regulatory reforms on dynamics prices. For this purpose, we apply flexible distributions that account for asymmetry, heavy tails, excess kurtosis usually observed data or model residua...

System dynamics and agent-based modeling are two approaches used in simulation experiments. In this paper, we implement a system dynamics model for infectious diseases (SIR model) using Causal Block Diagrams (CBD) and develop an agent-based model based on statecharts. Our agent-based modeling approach produces similar results to the system dynamics approach. We discuss in detail how this simila...

This study investigated the function of social supports and computer self-efficacy in predicting high school students’ perceived effect of computer use. The study was survey method to collect data. The questionnaires were distributed to the high school students in Taiwan. 620 questionnaires were distributed and 525 questionnaires were gathered back with 84.67% return rate. The results of struct...