The residential sector is currently one of the major contributors to the global energy balance. However, the energy demand of residential users has been so far largely uncontrollable and inelastic with respect to the power grid conditions. With the massive introduction of renewable energy...

The optimization of three problems with high dimensionality and many local minima are investigated under five different optimization algorithms: DIRECT, simulated annealing, Spall’s SPSA algorithm, the KNITRO package, and QNSTOP, a new algorithm developed at Indiana University. Copyright...

We consider a deterministic integer programming model for determining the optimal operations of multiple plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) battery exchange stations over time. The operations include the number of batteries to charge, discharge, and exchange at each point in time over a set...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An Overview -- 3 Mathematical Preliminaries -- 4 Dynamic Programming under Certainty -- 5 Applications of Dynamic Programming under Certainty -- 6 Deterministic Dynamics -- 7 Measure Theory and Integration -- 8 Markov Processes -- 9 Stochastic...