It is often natural to consider defective or killed stochastic processes. Various observations continue to hold true for this wider class of processes yielding more general results in a transparent way without additional effort. We illustrate this point with an example from risk theory by...

The admission decision is one of the fundamental categories of demand-management decisions. In the dynamic model of the single-resource capacity control problem, the distribution of demand does not explicitly depend on external conditions. However, in reality, demand may depend on the current...

This paper proposes an integrated wind-photovoltaic-battery hybrid system that features a simple power management strategy, requires a lower number of power-electronic converters, and eliminates the need for dump loads. Thus, it is expected to offer a lower cost and higher efficiency, and to...

This paper reports on a series of steam injection experiments on a Turbec T100 microturbine. Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems, such as the considered T100 microturbine, use one single primary fuel to simultaneously produce electric and thermal power. In doing so, they realize significant...

This paper describes the design and implementation of zero voltage transition (ZVT) pulse width modulated (PWM) bidirectional buck–boost converter. The simplicity of the control and the reduction of voltage and current stresses on the main switches are the main features of the proposed...

In this paper, we study a reflected Markov-modulated Brownian motion with a two sided reflection in which the drift, diffusion coefficient and the two boundaries are (jointly) modulated by a finite state space irreducible continuous time Markov chain. The goal is to compute the stationary...