Recent years have witnessed a surge in demand for infrastructure and services to cover high demands on processing big chunks of data and applications resulting in a mega Cloud Datacenter. A datacenter is of high complexity with increasing difficulties to identify, allocate effic…
With the rapid development of battery technologies, battery energy storage systems (BESSs) have been allocated as great candidates for various types of ancillary service application in the power systems. On the other hand, many power systems around the world have opened their an…
This thesis concerns fractional-order (non-integer) methods for control system design. Although fractional-order calculus has a long history in mathematics and engineering, the uptake of relevant fractional-order concepts in control systems research has been relatively slow, and…
Mobile applications are gaining more and more market share and virtually everyone today has smartphones. This reality is no different in Africa, where the use of mobile payment systems has grown and allowed people without access to bank accounts to use their phones to perform ba…