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...

The objective of this thesis is to estimate, for adistribution network, confidence intervals containing thevalues of nodal hourly power consumption and nodal maximumpower consumption per customer where they are not measured.The values of nodal hourly power consumption are needed inoperational as...

<CENTER><H4>An Analysis of the Financial Incentives Impact on the Utility Demand-Side Management Programs</h3></center><p align="justify"> Many utilities implement the financial incentive plans in promoting their Demand-Side Management (DSM) programs. The plans are intended to reduce the customer investment cost for a high efficiency...</p></h4>

We develop a framework to assess and quantify the sustainability and reliability of different power production scenarios in a regional system, focusing on the interaction of microgrids with the existing transmission/distribution grid. The Northwestern European electricity market (Belgium,...

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...

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...

For simple regression with replication and fixed carriers, we determine the highest possible exact fit point of a regression equivariant estimator and show that it is less than 50% (even asymptotically). We determine the optimal value of the quantile index in the Least median of squares and...

The presence of leverage points in regression can have a dramatic impact on the finite sample efficiencies (versus least squares under Gaussian errors) of high breakdown estimators. In general, as the x-value of a leverage point becomes more extreme, the finite sample efficiencies decrease and...