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 ...

Load forecasting is an essential task which is executed by electricity retail companies. By predicting the demand accurately, companies can prevent waste of resources and blackouts. Load forecasting directly affect the ...

User ratings on items like movies, songs, and shopping products are used by Recommendation Systems (RS) to predict user preferences for items that have not been rated. RS has been utilized to give suggestions to users ...

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 this paper, we examine a selling environment where a manufacturer-controlled retailer and an independent retailer sell a slow-moving A item. The manufacturer offers the independent retailer a price protection ...

In this study, we propose an effective integration of multi criteria decision making methods and Bayesian networks (BN) that incorporates expert knowledge. The novelty of this approach is that it provides decision support ...

In this paper, we present an alternative formulation of utility entropy called disutility entropy. Previous entropy measurements in the literature use utility density function in maximum entropy formulations. Also, in ...

We study the Multiple Allocation Tree of Hubs Location Problem where a tree topology is required among the hubs and transportation cost of sending flows between OD pairs is minimized. Unlike most studies in the literature ...

Today, electric vehicles are seen as one of the most suitable and environmentally friendly alternatives to internal combustion engine vehicles. An important issue related to the dissemination of electric vehicles is the ...

Electric vehicles have emerged as one of the top environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional internal combustion engine vehicles. The development of a comprehensive charging infrastructure, particularly determining ...