producers and consumers’ price behavior were analyzed in chicken meat market in fars province. monthly average producers and consumers prices from june 1997 to july 2008 were taken into account. changes in the producer and consumer prices indicated that the prices follow an increasing trend with much fluctuations. marketing margin has an increasing trend of violent fluctuations. the result of g...

In Part II of this two-part paper, we analyze the marginal prices derived in Part I of this two-part paper within a robust optimization framework. The load and generation are priced at Locational Marginal Price (LMP) while the uncertainty and generation reserve are priced at Uncertainty Marginal Price (UMP). The Financial Transmission Right (FTR) underfunding is demonstrated when there is trans...

Recently, the world has experienced striking economic and policy changes, subsequent uncertainties have impacts on dairy trade price fluctuations. The Global Vector Autoregressive (GVAR) methodology was established in this paper to better understand international butter export prices transmission, feedback between context changes fluctuations, link global market, energy other commodity markets....

Restructuring of power system has faced this industry with numerous uncertainties. As a result, transmission expansion planning (TEP) like many other problems has become a very challenging problem in such systems. Due to these changes, various approaches have been proposed for TEP in the new environment. In this paper a new algorithm for TEP is presented. The method is based on probabilisti...