Electricity markets in the United States presently employ an auction mechanism to determine the dispatch of power generation units. In this market design, generators submit bid prices to a regulation agency for review, and the regulator conducts an auction selection in such a way that satisfies...

Covariance models are a powerful description of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) families that can be used to search nucleotide databases for new members of these ncRNA families. Currently, estimation of the parameters of a covariance model (state transition and emission scores) is based only on the...

Policy based network management is a promising approach for provisioning and management of quality of service in mobile ad hoc networks. In this thesis, we focus on performance evaluation of this approach in context of the amount of service received by certain nodes called policy execution...

The electric power grid forms the foundation for several other critical infrastructures of national importance such as public health, transportation and telecommunication systems, to thrive. The current power grid runs on the century-old technology and faces serious challenges of the 21st...

With the increase of requesting personal information online, unauthorized disclosure of user privacy is a significant problem faced by todayâs Internet. As a typical identity theft, phishing usually employs fraudulent emails and spoofed web sites to trick unsuspecting users into divulging their...

The thesis aims to introduce an efficient resource development strategy in electric utility long term planning under uncertainty considerations. In recent years, electric utilities have recognized the concepts of robustness, flexibility, and risk exposure, to be considered in their resource...

This study presents a multi-attribute decision making (MADM) frameworkin support of strategic resource planning of electric utilities. Study efforts have focusedon four technical issues identified to be essentially important to the process of strategicresource development, i.e., decision data...

Estimation of nonlinear models findsapplications in every field of engineering andthe sciences. Much work has been done tobuild solid statistical theories for its use andinterpretation. However, there has been littleanalysis of the tolerance of nonlinear modelestimators to deviations from...

The deregulation of the Electricity Sector in US has led to a tremendous increase in the inter-regional wholesale electricity trade between neighboring utilities or regions. For instance, the generation deficit regions may choose to import power from surplus regions; thus the wholesale...

In deformation based morphometry (DBM) group-wise differences in brain structure are measuredusing deformable registration and some form of statistical test. However, it is known that DBMresults are sensitive to both the registration method and statistical test used. Given the lack of...