Demand response (DR) programs have gained much attention during the last three decades to optimize the decisions of the electricity market participants considering demand-side management (DSM). They can potentially enhance system reliability and manage price volatility by modifying the amount or...

Introduction and Motivation -- Optimality and Complementarity -- Some Microeconomic Principles -- Equilibria and Complementarity Problems -- Variational Inequality Problems -- Optimization Problems Constrained by Optimization Problems -- Equilibrium Problems with Equilibrium Constraints --...

Due to the inherent aleatory uncertainties in renewable generators, the reliability/adequacy assessments of distributed generation (DG) systems have been particularly focused on the probabilistic modeling of random behaviors, given sufficient informative data. However, another type of...