Understanding people's resources and vulnerabilities is important to ongoing policy making efforts in emergency management and disaster resilience. This study examines the self-reported experiences, psychological effects, and evacuation behaviors of New Orleanians across age groups, using data...

Energy storage system (ESS) plays a critical role in balancing the temporal imbalance between power generation and demand in the energy market. However, large-scale ESS deployment has been limited due to high upfront costs. To encourage grid-scale battery deployment, various forms of incentive...

This study presents a novel approach for wind farm micro-siting in complex terrain based on an improved Genetic Algorithm (GA). The proposed approach is used for optimizing the layout of wind turbines in a real terrain in Changsha, China. Firstly, a combination of computational fluid dynamics...

Modern trams usually own passive transit signal priority (TSP) to avoid interruption from traffic signals along the route. The key to TSP depends on the strictly stick to the recommend travel time between intersections. However, the effectiveness of the TSP can be weakened by dwell time...

General Approaches to Decision-Making -- Decision-Making in Planning and Investing in Wind Energy -- Decision-Making in Wind Farm Design -- Decision-Making in 1D Cutting of Blanks for Wind Turbine Manufacturing and Processing Planning -- Decision-Making in Structural Health Monitoring and...

This paper investigates some single-machine scheduling problems with a general learning effect and the group technology assumption. A setup time is incurred whenever the single machine transfers job processing from a family to another family. By the general learning effect, we mean that the...

This paper points out a conceptual flaw present in a recent publication. It shows how the methodology can be modified to correct this flaw. It also presents improved bounds to determine the nature of a given problem.