Expansion of gas fired units installation in power network results in more interdependency between gas and electric infrastructures. Thus new research has paid attention to the impact of gas network in power system studies. One such issue is the impact of gas network in a unit commitment...

International containerized freight movement is a vital part of the supply chain for many companies, and a critical element of moving consumer goods to points of retail sale within the U.S. Containerized imports also present a clear security concern (e.g., terrorists attempting to ship “dirty...

This paper considers the problem of how to select highway projects for the build–operate-transfer (BOT) development with the objective of improving the social benefit while ensuring the marketability of those selected. The problem can be viewed as a tri-level leader–follower game and is...

One of the most important properties of self-organized networks is their scale-free property. Prior research proved empirically and theoretically that scale-free networks emerge under the preferential attachment rule. However, a few empirical studies also show that empirical networks diverge...

Mobile telephones, company ID badges, and similar common devices form a sensor network which can be used to map human activity, and especially human interactions. The most informative sensor data seem to be measurements of person-to-person proximity, and statistics of vocalization and body...

The appropriate description of two-phase flow in some systems requires a detailed analysis of the fundamental equations of flow and transport including momentum transfer between fluid phases. In the particular case of two-phase flow of oil and gas through porous media, when the gas phase is...