This paper presents a survey of simulation and optimization modeling approaches used in reservoir systems operation problems. Optimization methods have been proved of much importance when used with simulation modeling and the two approaches when combined give the best results. The main objective...

A data-driven approach to the performance analysis of wind turbines is presented. Turbine performance is captured with a power curve. The power curves are constructed using historical wind turbine data. Three power curve models are developed, one by the least squares method and the other by the...

This paper proposes a new hybrid algorithm Meta-heuristic for the problem of network planning systems. The main goal of this paper is, to develop an efficient optimization tool which will minimise the cost functions of the stated optimization problems in network planning systems. The following...

Tartarus is a benchmark problem used to evaluate artificial intelligence techniques for solving problems in the field of non-Markovian agent motion planning. In this paper a fractal gene regulatory network with inputs is evolved to act as a virtual robot controller in the Tartarus environment....

We have developed an agent-based model for competition among payment cards networks. In our model the competitors in the payment card market learn by observing model-based interactions between costumers and merchants at the point of sale (POS). The interactions are represented on lattice with...

This chapter surveys research on agent-based models used in finance. It will concentrate on models where the use of computational tools is critical for the process of crafting models which give insights into the importance and dynamics of investor heterogeneity in many financial settings.