The use of distributed energy resources (DER) programs, which include separate renewable energy (RE) programs, has expanded in residential as well as commercial structures as an outcome of recent technological developments. The virtual power plant (VPP) may improve the security and reliability...

As nutrients and sediment in agricultural watersheds continue to degrade water quality, attention is increasingly given to reverse auctions to cost-effectively address these pollutants. Typically, reverse auctions include a selection process which depends on both the monetary bid and a ranking...

Difficult combinatorial optimization problems coming from practice are nowadays often approached by hybrid metaheuristics that combine principles of classical metaheuristic techniques with advanced methods from fields like mathematical programming, dynamic programming, and constraint...

If enterprises with limited capacities can carry out several long term projects, the question of the optimum order of these projects arises. A decisive criterion in analogy to the equivalent annuity leads to the optimal sequence. If temporal restrictions for the projects in the form of latest...