stochastic computing (SC) has emerged as an efficient low-power alternative for deploying neural networks (NNs) in resource-limited scenarios, such as the Internet of Things (IoT). By encoding values as serial bitstre...
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This work focuses on planning an intra-city express system in a practical environment. Various operation characteristics, such as vehicle capacity, hub capacity, time windows, and stochastic demands, have been conside...
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The deployment of mobile renewable energy charging stations plays a crucial role in facilitating the overall adoption of electric vehicles and reducing reliance on fossil fuels. This study addresses the dynamic capaci...
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The deployment of mobile renewable energy charging stations plays a crucial role in facilitating the overall adoption of electric vehicles and reducing reliance on fossil fuels. This study addresses the dynamic capacitated facility location problem in mobile charging stations from a sustainability perspective. This paper proposes Twostage stochastic programming with recourse that performs well for this application, and the location of the mobile renewable energy charging station (MRECS) management addresses the complex dynamics of reusable items. To solve this problem, we suggested dealing with differential evolutionary (DE) and DE Q-learning (DEQL) algorithms, as two novel optimization and reinforcement learning approaches, are presented as solution approaches to validate their performance. Evaluation of the outcomes reveals a considerable disparity between the algorithms, and DEQL performs better in solving the presented problem. In addition, DEQL could minimize the total operation cost and carbon emission by 7% and 20%, respectively. In contrast, the DE could decrease carbon emissions and total operation costs by 5% and 2.5%, respectively.
Flight planning under windy conditions has been a critical problem in air transportation. Wind information is primarily obtained through hourly updated forecasts available prior to the flight. Although flight plans ar...
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Flight planning under windy conditions has been a critical problem in air transportation. Wind information is primarily obtained through hourly updated forecasts available prior to the flight. Although flight plans are made based on the forecast, controlling the time of arrival at the destination airport can still be difficult. Furthermore, the imprecision and uncertainty in weather forecasts present additional challenges to flight operations. In view of this, we propose an approach for selecting the optimal cruise airspeed under wind uncertainty to save fuel and maintain the Required Time of Arrival (RTA). The entire flight is first divided into a certain number of segments, and the correlations between wind forecasts and actual observations are utilized by merging stochastic programming (SP) and Receding Horizon Control (RHC) frameworks to determine the optimum airspeed. Additionally, we propose a method to reduce fuel consumption across multiple flights by sharing information between aircraft and the air traffic center. This information is then used to determine RTAs and adjust them to achieve fuel efficiency. Through numerical studies, we obtained satisfactory results indicating that the proposed method can lead to improved performance in fuel saving and RTA for all flights in the experiment.
This article focuses on addressing the chiller sequencing problem of chiller plants by establishing a comprehensive energy management framework. The contribution of this work is threefold. Firstly, a distributive mode...
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This article focuses on addressing the chiller sequencing problem of chiller plants by establishing a comprehensive energy management framework. The contribution of this work is threefold. Firstly, a distributive modeling architecture is presented that establishes five concurrent models as input to the framework. A synergy among these models is exploited to formulate a chance-constrained stochastic chiller sequencing problem. Secondly, a quantified life expectancy model of the chiller plant is introduced and a case is made for why it is influential in delivering industrially applicable solutions. The model attempts to strike a balance between economic optimality and improved reliability. Thirdly, a chiller data pre-processing protocol incubating two heuristic algorithms is proposed to address measurement uncertainties of the chiller plant state variables. Furthermore, this work develops a robust ensemble model to accurately forecast the cooling load and embeds a chain of reformulations to improve the global solution's optimality. The developed framework is realized with the plant at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. The results confirm that the proposed framework leads to a significant amount of power savings. In comparison to conventional scheduling, the chiller plant power consumption can be reduced by up to 6.2 %, thereby illustrating its efficacy.
Smart buildings play a crucial role in optimizing energy management within the power network. As end-users of the power network, they have the ability to not only reduce economic costs for householders but also modify...
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Smart buildings play a crucial role in optimizing energy management within the power network. As end-users of the power network, they have the ability to not only reduce economic costs for householders but also modify the technical indices of the power network. To promote efficient device management in smart homes (SH), demand response programs are recommended for consumers. This research investigates the application of clusteringbased electricity pricing strategy aimed at effectively managing the energy devices of a residential smart home. The utilized method categorizes the electricity tariff into five rates according to the clustering of the realtime pricing program. Ward's clustering method is utilized to cluster and determine new electricity tariffs. The primary goal of the energy management program is to minimize the building's energy cost, which is accomplished through the utilization of the multi-verse optimizer. The smart home consists of essential and manageable appliances, a photovoltaic panel (PV), a sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery, and an electric vehicle (EV). The initial parameters of the PV and EV are modeled stochastically by their probability distribution functions and calculated using the Latin hypercube sampling algorithm. The smart building's performance is assessed by taking into account various demand response programs. The numerical results present that the application of the clusteringbased management method has resulted in a significant reduction of 23-43 % in the electricity cost of smart homes. Additionally, the smart home exhibits a more linear consumption pattern when considering the electricity tariffs based on the clustering approach.
Direct Load Control (DLC) is a demand response strategy in which customers receive compensation from utilities in return for permitting them to regulate the operation of specific equipment. This paper analyzes the imp...
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Direct Load Control (DLC) is a demand response strategy in which customers receive compensation from utilities in return for permitting them to regulate the operation of specific equipment. This paper analyzes the impacts of DLC programs on the transition to renewable energy within the European electricity system towards 2060. The study quantifies the achievable hourly potential for DLC across Europe in the residential sector. By implementing and developing a DLC module within the stochastic capacity expansion model EMPIRE, we investigate how costs, long-term investments, and long-term marginal prices are affected by residential DLC participation rates. The research utilizes a comprehensive DLC dataset, including ten appliances such as electric vehicles, heat pumps, refrigeration, and others. This dataset serves as the basis for creating four storylines to investigate the integration of these programs into the European electricity system. The results indicate that residential DLC programs have some impact on grid -battery deployment, PV plant penetration, and electricity prices. In the best -case scenario, involving ambitious participation of residential loads in DLC programs without compensation, cost savings are about 1% versus not introducing DLC. The findings contribute to understanding the value of demand response programs in Europe, indicating that the savings they bring might not be sufficient to provide enough incentives or compensation for widespread participation in such programs. That is, from a long-term investment or capacity expansion perspective, it may not be worthwhile to soley include residential demand response in the planning of the electricity system.
This paper addresses the stochastic discrete lot-sizing problem on parallel machines, which is a computationally challenging problem also for relatively small instances. We propose two heuristics to deal with it by le...
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This paper addresses the stochastic discrete lot-sizing problem on parallel machines, which is a computationally challenging problem also for relatively small instances. We propose two heuristics to deal with it by leveraging reinforcement learning. In particular, we propose a technique based on approximate value iteration around post-decision state variables and one based on multi-agent reinforcement learning. We compare these two approaches with other reinforcement learning methods and more classical solution techniques, showing their effectiveness in addressing realistic size instances.
Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN) are one of the most promising advanced paradigms in the sixth generation (6G) communication. SAGIN can support high data rates, low latency, and seamless network coverage f...
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(数字)9781665461290
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(纸本)9781665461290
Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN) are one of the most promising advanced paradigms in the sixth generation (6G) communication. SAGIN can support high data rates, low latency, and seamless network coverage for interconnected applications and services. However, communications in SAGIN are facing tremendous security threats from the everincreasing capacity of quantum computers. Fortunately, quantum key distribution (QKD) for establishing secure communications in SAGIN, i.e., QKD over SAGIN, can provide informationtheoretic security. To minimize the QKD deployment cost in SAGIN with heterogeneous nodes, in this paper, we propose a resource allocation scheme for QKD over SAGIN using stochastic programming. The proposed scheme is formulated via two-stage stochastic programming (SP), while considering uncertainties such as security requirements and weather conditions. Under extensive experiments, the results clearly show that the proposed scheme can achieve the optimal deployment cost under various security requirements and unpredictable weather conditions.
Probabilistic forecasting in combination with stochastic programming is a key tool for handling the growing uncertainties in future energy systems. Derived from a general stochastic programming formulation for the opt...
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(纸本)9781665412117
Probabilistic forecasting in combination with stochastic programming is a key tool for handling the growing uncertainties in future energy systems. Derived from a general stochastic programming formulation for the optimal scheduling and bidding in energy markets we examine several common special instances containing uncertain loads, energy prices, and variable renewable energies. We analyze for each setup whether only an expected value forecast, marginal or bivariate predictive distributions, or the full joint predictive distribution is required. For market schedule optimization, we find that expected price forecasts are sufficient in almost all cases, while the marginal distributions of renewable energy production and demand are often required. For bidding curve optimization, pairwise or full joint distributions are necessary except for specific cases. This work helps practitioners choose the simplest type of forecast that can still achieve the best theoretically possible result for their problem and researchers to focus on the most relevant instances.
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