An accurate short-term load forecasting (STLF) is one of the most critical inputs for power plant units’ planning commitment. STLF reduces the overall planning uncertainty added by the intermittent production of renewable sources; thus, it helps to minimize the hydro-thermal ele…
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There is a significant interest in harnessing the available flexibility that exists on the demand side of the distribution energy systems by implementing energy storage or demand response programs. Appropriate choices regarding technical design parameters, involvement of flexibi…
The classical Duplication-Loss-Coalescence parsimony model (DLC-model) is a powerful tool when studying the complex evolutionary scenarios of simultaneous duplication-loss and deep coalescence events in evolutionary histories of gene families. However, inferring such scenarios i…
This study proposes a health insurance premium adjustment model to maximize individual's benefit and minimize health insurance company's loss, considering health risk of individuals. Over the years, both optimistic and pessimistic premium adjustment models have been studied in t…
As demand for fossil fuel increases and availability decreases, energy consumption reduction in building becomes critical component of a city's comprehensive energy strategy. When addressing energy efficiency in a building, it is necessary to account for local climate first and …
The water industry is a heavy consumer of electricity to pump water. Electricity generated with fossil fuel sources produce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that contribute to climate change. Carbon taxation and economic discounting in project planning are promising policies to re…
This dissertation proposes new optimization algorithms targeting protein-protein docking which is an important class of problems in computational structural biology. The ultimate goal of docking methods is to predict the 3-dimensional structure of a stable protein-protein comple…
Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. The combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity constitutes the major single source of CO2 . In recent years, the need for environmental friendly power generation has led to the development of …
In the context of real time electricity pricing, energy consumption by Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems is usually heaviest when prices are at their highest. In order to reduce expenditure while adequately maintaining indoor comfort conditions, Economic …
This dissertation offers computational and theoretical advances for optimization under uncertainty problems that utilize a probabilistic framework for addressing such uncertainties, and adopt a probabilistic performance as objective function. Emphasis is placed on applications t…
Queuing management systems have been widely improved in recent years. Many solutions are available to manage the flow of customers in the service sector. Additionally, these systems have been used to automate resource allocation, but it is challenging to use them efficiently in …
Climate change is one of the most important issues in today's world, and there is an increasing concern about it. State of California is the leading states in the United States in cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; it sets an objective of achieving 1990 emission level by 20…
Rapid urbanization and development are causing severe problems of raw water extraction and related environmental and social impacts in developing countries. This study demonstrated that an integrated approach to decision making could help solve these problems. A case study of ra…
A closed-form model for the second-law-based thermoeconomic analysis and optimization of thermal-energy-storage systems is derived and discussed. The analytical procedure is generalized since it is applicable to all types of thermal-energy-storage systems that do not have chemic…
This thesis deals with Newton-type methods for solving equations and systems of equations, together with applications to optimization, location problems, calculus of variations, computer graphies and other areas. Topics include: (1) Directional Newton methods for functions f of …
Recently, there has been a lot of interest in the economics of quality control. One of the important issues in quality control is finding the optimal target value for a process under various inspection policies. Researchers have considered various aspects of this problem either …
Power system operation and planning relies heavily on computer simulation programs such as load flow, transient stability, contingency analysis, state estimation, short-circuit studies and optimal power flow. All of the above mentioned methodologies for planning and operation in…
Closed-loop optimization deals with problems in which candidate solutions are evaluated by conducting experiments, e.g. physical or biochemical experiments. Although this form of optimization is becoming more popular across the sciences, it may be subject to rather unexplored re…
Tooling design is crucial for the production of cost-effective and durable composite products. As part of the current search for cost reduction (by reducing capital investment, energy use and cycle time), integrally-heated tooling is one of the technologies available for ‘out-of…