A new market based approach for transmission expansion planning in deregulated environments is presented in this paper. In this approach, transmission-planning decisions are made based on the electric power market conditions. The main contribution of this research is 1) Introducing a new probabilistic tool for analyzing the electric market conditions, 2) Defining new criteria for ranking transm...

The generation business in the U.S. is currently undergoing a transition from a regulated monopoly toward an uncertain, competitive market. Under the competitive market, the price of electric power as well as the corresponding revenue may be much less certain than before. These market uncertainties have increased the significance of two critical factors in generation planning. These factors are...

increasing non-oil exporting is among the most important concerns for iran. software industry is among the knowledge based and profitable ones. identification of factors affecting export performance of software developers can improve planning that in turn results in increasing software export. in this research a model consisting of seven important variables in software industries including: com...

This paper examines a number of theoretical and practical issues concerning the use of decision-theoretic planning to implement agents in market-based systems. The markets considered here result from the decomposition of complex, intra-organizationai resource allocation problems such as manufacturing scheduling. Although these problems can be formulated as monolithic optimization problems, they...

This paper discusses the planning problem of a group of domestic Combined Heat and Power (microCHP) appliances, which together form a Virtual Power Plant (VPP). To act on an electricity trading market, this VPP has to specify a production plan for electricity for given times of the day to offer to this market. These amounts have to be delivered exactly when these times arrive; moreover, deviati...

Generation Expansion Planning (GEP) has been a significant issue for not only the regulator but also the market participants. The generators should adapt strategies at stage of long-term capacity adjustment and stage of operation for pursuing improvement of their profit. The regulator should anticipate market failure and give incentives to capacity investment. In the competitive Electricity mar...

In a highly dynamic environment, an adaptive real-time mission planner is essential for controlling a team of autonomous vehicles to execute a set of assigned tasks. The optimal plan computed prior to the start of the operation might be no longer optimal when the vehicles execute the plan. This paper proposes a framework and algorithms for solving real-time task and path planning problems by co...