Many existing papers on the topic of smart grids work on scheduling of appliances considering an unlimited energy supply. However, the size of the power grid necessary to operate on periods of peak demand of the day would be large, and that would not be exploited during most of the day. Because...

Cloud-RAN is a recent architecture for mobile networks where the processing units are located indistant data centers while, until now, they were attached to antennas. The main challenge, to fulfillprotocol constraints, is to guarantee low latency for the periodic messages sent from each antenna...

We study the threshold between avoidable and unavoidable repetitions in infinite balanced sequences over finite alphabets. The conjecture stated by Rampersad, Shallit and Vandomme says that the minimal critical exponent of balanced sequences over the alphabet of size d greater than or equal to 5...

The increasing population, water scarcity, and labor cost demand more high-yield, water-saving, and efficient maize production. Grain mechanical harvesting, the quality of which is mainly influenced by grain moisture content, can improve the efficiency and decrease the harvest cost of maize...

Non-mulch planting technology is an effective mean to solve the residual plastic mulch pollution in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) fields in southern Xinjiang. The impacts of irrigation management on the growth development and yield of non-mulch cotton were quantitatively evaluating by employing...

This research proposed an optimization method using a solution technique based on two well-known techniques, differential evolution and particle swarm optimization, to tackle a multi-visit and multi-period workforce scheduling and routing problem in field service operation of a sugarcane mill...

When offshore-island renewable distribution system (OIRDS) encounters multiple failures in case of extreme weather, battery charging-swapping system (BCSS) is a promising solution to reduce the power outage loss and enhance resilience of the OIRDS. However, extreme weather (such as heavy rain)...

Energy storage system (ESS) plays a critical role in balancing the temporal imbalance between power generation and demand in the energy market. However, large-scale ESS deployment has been limited due to high upfront costs. To encourage grid-scale battery deployment, various forms of incentive...

The scheduling approach constitutes a key element of services trade agreements as it is the means to pursue liberalization. This paper provides an overview of the scheduling approaches adopted in 187 trade agreements notified under GATS Article V as of 30 April 2022, analyses the differences...

Purpose: The research studies the production system having multiple items being processed on the same production line. The objectives are to (1) investigate the influence of production sequence on the optimal value of production run size, (2) explore the effect of production sequence on the...