www.extension.umn.edu/beef In spite of increasing corn prices, incentives for feedlot expansion exist in the Upper Midwest due to the increased supply of ethanol co-product feeds, relatively inexpensive corn and forage, availability of crop land for manure application, and clearly defined feedlot regulations in states like Minnesota. A recent estimate of distillers’ grains supply of 24 million ...

Recent breakthroughs in Transmission Network Expansion Planning (TNEP) have demonstrated that the use of robust optimization, as opposed to stochastic programming methods, renders the expansion planning problem computationally tractable for real systems. State-of-the-art robust methods treat this problem as stationary throughout the study period, with all the required investments on expansion o...

Generation expansion planning is a challenging problem due to its large-scale, long-term, non-linear, and discrete nature of generation unit size. Since the computation revolution, there are several emerging techniques proposed to solve large scale optimization problem. Many of these techniques have been reported to use in generation expansion planning. This paper will describe these emerging o...

Transmission network expansion planning (TNEP) is an important component of power system planning. Itdetermines the characteristics and performance of the future electric power network and influences the powersystem operation directly. Different methods have been proposed for the solution of the static transmissionnetwork expansion planning (STNEP) problem till now. But in all of them, STNEP pr...

In recent years the expansion planning problem has become increasingly complex. As expansion planning (sometimes called composite or integrated resource planning) is a non-linear and nonconvex optimization problem, researchers have traditionally focused on approximate models of power flows to solve the problem. The problem has also been split into generation expansion planning (GEP) and transmi...

In this paper a schematic survey on main tasks dealing with pow er system management has been accomplished. Each task has been de ned and studied from a neural perspective. Moreover, a represen tativ e but non exhaustive analysis of recent reported works in the eld is presented. Constitutive elements of a pow er system, such as generators, buses, lines, breakers, as w ell as most relevant magni...

presence of distributed generation (dg) in electric distribution systems provides an attractive new alternative in capacity expansion planning of these systems. in this paper a new model is developed for solving simultaneous placement of hv/mv substations and dg units as a static planning tool. this model aims to minimize fixed and variable costs of planning. constraints related to dgs, substat...

Dynamic planning concerns the planning and execution of actions in a dynamic, real world environment. Its goal is to take into account changes generated by unpredicted events occurred during the execution of actions. In this paper we develop the theoretic model of dynamic planning presented in [12]. This model proposes a graph representation of possible, efficient and best plans of agents actin...

Policy Evaluation for Reactive Agents Krysia Broda and Christopher John Hogger Department of Computing, Imperial College London South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ UK {kb, cjh}@doc.ic.ac.uk Abstract. This paper describes a method for constructing and evaluating teleo-reactive policies for one or more agents, based upon discountedreward evaluation of policy-restricted subgraphs of complete s...

In managing an inventory network, two approaches to the pooling of stock have been proposed. Reactive transshipments respond to shortages at a location by moving inventory from elsewhere within the network, while proactive stock redistribution seeks to minimize the chance of future stockouts. This paper is the first to propose an enhanced reactive approach in which individual transshipments are...