Purpose Ethiopia’s energy sector faces critical challenges to meeting steadily increasing energy demand given limited infrastructure, heavy reliance on hydroelectric power and underdevelopment of alternative energy resources. The purpose of this paper was to identify optimal least cost...

Proper planning and management of irrigation is vital in achieving food security for the burgeoning global population and sustaining livelihoods. Because irrigated agriculture is expected to provide more food, if managed properly. The comprehensive reviews on the use of various programming...

This paper describes theNeighbourhood Search, an effectivemethod that we suggest for constructing Pareto sets in multiple objective problems with conegenerated orders. TheNeighbourhood Search is then applied to discounted Markov Decision Processes, resulting in original statements about...

This paper describes theNeighbourhood Search, an effectivemethod that we suggest for constructing Pareto sets in multiple objective problems with conegenerated orders. TheNeighbourhood Search is then applied to discounted Markov Decision Processes, resulting in original statements about...

This paper presents a survey of simulation and optimization modeling approaches used in reservoir systems operation problems. Optimization methods have been proved of much importance when used with simulation modeling and the two approaches when combined give the best results. The main objective...

This paper seeks to highlight two approaches to the solution of stochastic control and optimal stopping problems in continuous time. Each approach transforms the stochastic problem into a deterministic problem. Dynamic programming is a well-established technique that obtains a partial/ordinary...

We numerically solve the classical "Game of Pure Strategy" using linear programming. We notice an intricate even-odd behaviour in the results of our computations that seems to encourage odd or maximal bids.