In bioenergy villages, local bioenergy plants are installed to supply electricity, which is fed into the national grid, and to heat households through a local heat distribution network. In this paper, a linear mathematical model, which economically optimizes local bioenergy production and...

A Supply Chain (SC) requires undertaking considerable number of activities covering the flow of information and goods among multiple production and distribution cells over several tiers. The successful implementation of a SC hinges on the optimum integration and synchronization of these activities.

Given a network, G=[N,E] the Isolation Set Problem (ISP) finds the set of arcs, D⊆E, that when removed will separate a predefined set of r distinguished nodes [2]. This involves eliminating connections from a specific set of nodes to the rest of a network. In our increasingly interconnected...

This paper presents and calibrates an individual’s stochastic health evolution model. In this health evolution model, the uncertainty of health incidents is described by a stochastic process with a finite number of possible outcomes. We construct a comprehensive health status index (HSI) to...