The pricing mechanism for energy is not in line with the international standards, because the energy prices are controlled by the government partly or completely in China. Chinese government made a lot of efforts to improve the pricing mechanism for energy. The relations between Chinese energy...

China’s photovoltaic industry developed sharply, and now it is the only country whose production covers the installed. Since R&D policy and deployment policy of China’s PV industry should not increase its production, this paper focuses on impact of investment policy, regarded as subsidy, on...

This study reexamines the relationship between energy consumption, urban population, economic growth and CO2 emissions in the BRICS countries (i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) during the period 2004–2010, by using a novel multi-variable grey model. The results indicate...

A book in the Systems Evaluation, Prediction, and Decision-Making Series, Systems Evaluation: Methods, Models, and Applications covers the evolutionary course of systems evaluation methods, clearly and concisely. Outlining a wide range of methods and models, it begins by examining the method of...

In the traditional channel, a retailer stocks the product from a manufacturer and sells it to consumers. In contrast, the retailer in the drop-shipping channel relays the consumers’ requests to the manufacturer who stocks and delivers the product to consumers. Due to their different...

To combat energy shortage, RIES has become an important research direction in the international energy field. In order to improve energy efficiency and the large-scale consumption of renewable energy, this paper presents the key technologies of RIES, which consists of the coupling relationship,...

Pulse electrocoagulation (PEC) was used to evaluate the treatment of synthetic solutions containing antimony (Sb). The effects of electrode materials, distance between electrodes, duty ratio, current frequency, and initial pH on the removal efficiency were investigated. The Sb removal reached...

Vehicle formation control is one of important research topics in transportation. Control of uncertain nonlinear systems is one of fundamental problems in vehicle control. In this dissertation, we consider this fundamental control problem. Specially, we considered selforganizing based tracking...