Tackling poverty has been one of the greatest global challenges and a prerequisite to sustainable development of countries. Countries implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures to address ...

An energy management system based on the rolling horizon control approach has been proposed for the grid-connected dynamic and stochastic microgrid of a university campus in Malta. The aims of the study are to minimize ...

In many practical scheduling problems, the concerns of the decision-maker may not be all known in advance and therefore may not be included in the initial problem definition as an objective function and/or as constraints. ...

In this paper, we are concerned with the use of simulation optimization to handle collaborative design problems where more than one decision-maker is involved. We assume that the designers cannot enumerate all their ...