As part of an overall effort to reduce the dependence on imported oil, the Government of India and the U.S. Agency for International Development have recently initiated a collaborative program to develop and implement newer coal and biomass energy conversion technologies in India. The dispersed...

In India, coal has come to occupy a pivotal position in sustaining the country's rising energy consumption and speeding economic growth. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in joint collaboration with the Government of India (GOI), is supporting research and development...

Potential Function Methods For Approximately Solving Linear Programming Problems breaks new ground in linear programming theory. The book draws on the research developments in three broad areas: linear and integer programming, numerical analysis, and the computational architectures which enable...

This article develops a dynamic optimization model to describe the supply of a depletable resource within an economy. An implementable version of the model is applied to the dynamic allocation of coal supply to the U.S. energy sector for the period 1979-2000. Several primary energy sources,...