Traditional electrical grid as the largest and most complex industry in the world is currently under fundamental development. According to the IEEE Std1547.4, large distribution systems can be clustered into a number of micro-grids (MGs) to facilitate the control and operation infrastructure in...

We employ a choice experiment to examine producer preferences for contracts to produce a risky bioenergy crop. We develop a framework accounting for subjective risk preferences and perceptions, and heterogeneous status-quo alternatives. Results indicate that price, biorefinery harvest, and...

Ever since the introduction of Markowitz's classical quadratic programming problem, transforming portfolio optimization into a linear programming (LP) problem has drawn much attention from researchers and practitioners, given the tractability of LP. However, using non-linear risk measures and...