Contents: Introduction to how to lead academic departments successfully -- Part I: Challenges of being an academic leader -- 1. On the particular challenges of managing professionals / Flemming Poulfelt -- 2. Relevant leadership: The dynamic equilibrium of managing and leading academic...

A simple yet efficient harmony search (HS) method with a new pitch adjustment rule (NPAHS) is proposed for dynamic economic dispatch (DED) of electrical power systems, a large-scale non-linear real time optimization problem imposed by a number of complex constraints. The new pitch adjustment...