We consider the optimal scheduling of hydropower plants in a hydrothermal interconnected system. This problem, of outmost importance for large-scale power systems with a high proportion of hydraulic ...

NPR's Books We Love returns with about 380 titles handpicked by NPR staff and critics. Reporter Andrew Limbong shares this year's nonfiction favorites with Michel Martin.

Abstract: In this article, an evolution-guided adaptive dynamic programming (EGADP) algorithm is developed to address the optimal regulation problems for the nonlinear systems. In the traditional ...

Welcome to the official repository for Introduction to GIS Programming: A Practical Python Guide to Open Source Geospatial Tools. This repository contains all the code examples featured in the book, ...

ABSTRACT: We analyzed the business lives of 10 additional Greek-owned shipping companies by revealing their strategies since their foundation in about 1850s till recently. Moreover, Greek shipowners ...

“No matter how long we get to parent our children, there are only limited numbers of ‘I love yous’ we can say to them,” writes Yiyun Li in her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow.” I love you is the ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. There is a need for design strategies that can support rapid and widespread deployment ...