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Title: A Data-Analytic Approach Towards Increasing Donor Heart Utilization in the United States
Author: Satyanarayana, Sagar
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biometry
Description: Heart transplantation is the best option available to treat end-stage Heart Failure (HF). There is a shortage of donor hearts in the United States even with the steady increase in the number of donors. One likely reason is the decreasing transplan...

Title: AN IMPROVEMENT OF THE LOAD REDUCTION EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES EMPLOYED IN DEMAND RESPONSE (DR) PROGRAMS OFFERED TO RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS
Author: Mohajeryami, Saeed
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Economics
Description: In current electricity market, demand side buys power indirectly through electric utilities, and it makes the demand side inelastic to market's price volatility and significantly affects the efficiency of the market. To fix the problem, it is esse...

Title: An Optimization Study of a Customized Kinetic Façade System Using Regression Model
Author: IM, OKKYUN
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Building
Description: There has been a considerable interest in the development and installation of the building facade system using a dynamic motion which is called a kinetic facade system. Since the kinetic facade system can respond to the change of the external weat...

Title: BULLWHIP EFFECT IN PRICING IN VARYING SUPPLY CHAIN STRUCTURES AND CONTRACTS USING A GAME THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Author: Adnan, Ziaul Haq
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Industrial engineering, Operations research, Commerce
Description: Bullwhip effect in Pricing (BP) refers to the amplified variability of prices in a supply chain. When the amplification takes place from the upstream (i.e. supplier’s side) towards the downstream (i.e. retail side) of a supply chain, this is refer...

Title: Combining Sister Load Forecasts
Author: Liu, Jiali
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Combining forecasts is a well-known approach to further improving forecast accuracy. In the load forecasting literature, there are only few papers discussing load forecast combination. Most of them are on combining independent forecasts. However, ...

Title: DAILY LOAD FORECASTING WITH HOURLY TEMPERATURES
Author: Shukla, Shreyashi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Load forecasting at the daily resolution is generally performed by aggregating the predicted hourly load. Long-term daily load forecasting is essential for resource planning in the power system and price evaluation of energy contracts. Short-term ...

Title: DYNAMIC ENERGY DISTRIBUTION IN SMART GRIDS ENABLED BY INTERNET OF THINGS SENSORS AND HYBRID TELECOM NETWORKS
Author: Bikmetov, Ravil
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Power resources, Operations research
Description: ABSTRACTRAVIL BIKMETOV. Dynamic Energy Distribution in Smart Grids Enabled by Internet of Things Sensors and Hybrid Telecom Networks. (Under the direction of DR. YASIN RAJA)Ability to manage energy consumption and generation is a major feature of ...

Title: Decentralized Agent-Based Control of Distributed Energy Resources for Providing Multiple Services in Active Distribution Networks
Author: Karandeh, Roozbeh
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: In recent decades, due to the carbon-free energy policies of power utilities, small and medium-scale renewable energy sources (RES), such as roof-top solar photovoltaic panels (PV), have been widely deployed across the distribution systems.However...

Title: Delivery Point Load Forecasting
Author: Sobhani, Masoud
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Electric load forecasting has been integrated into the business decision making processes across virtually every segment of the power industry. Power companies use short-term and long-term load forecasts primarily for power systems operations and ...

Title: Developing Data-Driven Approaches for Analyzing, Identifying, and Predicting Power System Outages
Author: Doostan, Milad
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Statistics
Description: Outages that occur in power distribution systems can seriously endanger system operation in different ways. In recent years, with the explosion in data gathering within the smart grid framework, data analytics has emerged as a desirable tool in he...

Title: Development of Distress and Performance Models of Composite Pavements for Pavement Management
Author: Fang, Xiazhi
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Information science
Description: Roadway systems in the United States have become huge assets that need massive resources to maintain and operate. To meet the long-term performance goal, government agencies developed pavement management systems (PMSs) to help them manage roadway ...

Title: FLEXIBLE PLANNING METHODS AND PROCEDURES WITH FLEXIBILITY REQUIREMENTS PROFILE
Author: Demirel, Edil
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Industrial engineering, Operations research
Description: Uncertainties in supply and/or demand combined with rolling horizon planning necessitate flexibility in a dynamic production planning process. In rolling horizon planning, production plans are revised when new information becomes available after t...

Title: Implementation and Assessment Techniques for the Applications of Advanced Distribution Management System
Author: Hossan, Md Shakawat
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: In recent years, massive numbers of distributed energy resources are being installed in distribution feeders at both the utility and customer levels. These integrations are creating bi-directional power ow complexities in all the existing applicat...

Title: MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND MODELING OF FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION WASTEWATER SEQUESTERED IN THE ALKALI-ACTIVATED FLY ASH MATRIX
Author: Ghaempanah Tajabadi, Morteza
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: Geopolymers can be categorized as synthetic zeolitic monoliths. The amorphous structure of this material is developed by dissolution of an aluminate and silicate-rich source, like fly ash, in a highly alkaline solution and then interlinking and cr...

Title: Modeling Freeway Level-of-Service based on Travel Time and Travel Time Reliability
Author: Imran, Md. Shah
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, City planning
Description: The assessment of operational performance is a challenge for the local transportation agencies and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) due to the dynamic nature in traffic movement. As demand approaches to the capacity of a roadway (or of t...

Title: Modeling and Optimization of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Energy Management in Electricity Markets
Author: Vatani, Behdad
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources, Operations research
Description: An energy management system (EMS) is a system designed for owners of generation companies (GenCos), operators of electricity markets and electric utility grids, as well as consumers and aggregators to monitor, control, and optimize the performance...

Title: Modeling the Effects of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems on Driver Behavior
Author: Gouribhatla, Raghuveer
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: About 38,000 fatalities are reported every year in the United States and traffic crashes (referred to as crashes) are the leading cause of deaths among people up to 54 years. Additionally, economic loss due to crashes is estimated equal to $380 mi...

Title: Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Based Energy Storage System Selection for Marine Renewable Energy Storage Systems
Author: Konka, Shravani
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: An exponential increase in energy demand worldwide induces researchers to opt foralternative energy sources that are cleaner. The most effective solution to the global warming risk is to use sustainable sources. Researchers consider oceans can con...

Title: Optimal Override Policy for Chemotherapy Scheduling Template via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
Author: Sikder, Ishtiak
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Health services administration
Description: Owing to treatment complexity in chemotherapy administration, nurses are usually required at the beginning, end, and at certain times during treatment to ensure high-quality infusion. It is, thus, critical for an outpatient chemotherapy unit to de...

Title: Optimal Sizing and Operation of Energy Storage Systems to Mitigate Intermittency of Renewable Energy Resources
Author: Naziri Moghaddam, Iman
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Increased share of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in the generation mix requires higher flexibility in power system resources. The intermittent nature of the RES calls for higher reserves in power systems to smooth out the unpredictable power fluc...