This paper evaluates the accuracy of a network economic modeling approach in designing energy systems having renewable and conventional generators. The network approach models the system as a network of processes such as demands, generators, markets, and resources. The model reaches a solution...

Structural classification and parameter estimation (SCPE) methods have been used for studying single-input single. output (SISO) parallel and feedback nonlinear system models from input-output (I-O) measurements. The uniqueness of the I-O mappings of different models and parameter uniqueness of...

An IAEA Technical Meeting on Techniques for IAEA Verification of Enrichment Activities identified 'smart tags' as a technology that should be assessed for tracking and locating UF6 cylinders. Although there is vast commercial industry working on RFID systems, the vulnerabilities of commercial...

A robust methodology for estimating the value of service reliability improvements is presented. Although econometric models for estimating value of service (interruption costs) have been established and widely accepted, analysts often resort to applying relatively crude interruption cost...

Measurements made by a penetrator structure penetration of some medium may not measure the penetration environment directly. In general, the measurements quantify the penetrator`s structural response to the penetrator force environment. This paper reports laboratory testing and analysis...

Successful commercialization of fusion energy requires economic viability as well as technical and scientific feasibility. To assess economic viability, we have conducted a pre-conceptual level evaluation of LIFE economics. Unit costs are estimated from a combination of bottom-up costs...

The methods developed for pricing interest rate options can be classified into two broad categories: (i) modeling the interest rate by modeling the factors that cause interest rate changes and (ii) modeling directly the probability density of the interest rate. Modeling directly the density of...

The Internet has become the standard infrastructure for all kinds of communications. At the same time, the emergence of cloud computing and web services has significantly strengthened requirements for the Internet to display greater robustness to disruptions and higher flexibility to support...

Most studies of the digital divide and network connectivity begin by asking how many people are in a network, and what are the network effects associated. We flip the framing by using on the excluded instead of the included. We find, looking at Metcalfe’s Law, Reed’s Law, and other network...