The deregulation of the electric industry in the United States opens the power market to competition. Buyers and sellers of electric power will be competing for limited resources. Although regulators will attempt to limit such activity, when large amounts of money are at stake, the participants have incentives to engage in destabilizing behavior. The goal of this study is to model agent driven ...

Since the eradication of smallpox in the 197Os, no other disease has been eliminated from the world by vaccination. Advances in mass immunization campaigns using oral vaccine have successfully interrupted the transmission of wild poliomyelitis virus in many countries, however, and have sharply reduced its incidence in many others (1, 2). The benefits of polio immunization appear from some studi...

Biomass production for energy purposes on agricultural land competes with food production. This is a serious problem, considering the limited availability of farmland, rising demand for varied food products, demand for more organic crop production resulting in considerably reduced yields per area and the need for more environmentally sound agricultural practices meeting long-term sustainability...