With the remarkable growth of natural gas consumption and the development of renewable energy worldwide in recent years, the penetration capacity of gas-fired generators and uncertain renewable energy has significantly become larger, which poses a great challenge to the reliable and economic...

Conjugate gradient method is one of the most effective methods for solving large-scale optimization problems. Based on the CD conjugate parameter and an improved PRP conjugate parameter,a modified conjugate gradient method with a single-parameter can be designed. To improve its convergence...

Much of the trading activity in Equity markets is directed to brokerage houses. In exchange they provide so-called quot;soft dollarsquot; which basically are amounts spent in quot;researchquot; for identifying profitable trading opportunities. Soft dollars represent about USD 1 out of every USD...