Formulation of Oligopolistic Competition in AC Power Networks: An NLP Approach

In this paper, oligopolistic competition in a centralized power market is characterized by a multi-leader single-follower game, and formulated as a nonlinear programming (NLP) problem. An AC network is used to represent the transmission system and is modeled using rectangular coordinates. The follower is composed of a set of competitive suppliers, demands, and the system … Read more

Numerical Study of Affine Supply Function Equilibrium in AC Network-Constrained Markets

An affine supply function equilibrium (SFE) approach is used to discuss voltage constraints and reactive power issues in the modeling of strategic behavior. Generation companies (GenCos) can choose their bid parameters with no restrictions for both energy and spinning reserves. The strategic behavior of generators is formulated as a multi-leader single-follower game. Each GenCo is … Read more

MOST – Multiple Objective Spanning Trees Repository Project

This article presents the Multiple Objective Spanning Trees repository – MOST – Project. As the name suggests, the MOST Project intends to maintain a repository of tests for the MOST related problems, mainly addressing real-life situations. MOST is motivated by the scarcity of repositories for the problems in the referred field. This entails difficulty in … Read more

Comparison Between NSGA-II and MOEA/D on a Set of Multiobjective Optimization Problems with Complicated Pareto Sets

Partly due to lack of test problems, the impact of the Pareto set (PS) shapes on the performance of evolutionary algorithms has not yet attracted much attention. This paper introduces a general class of continuous multiobjective optimization test instances with arbitrary prescribed PS shapes, which could be used for studying the ability of MOEAs for … Read more

l_1 Trend Filtering

The problem of estimating underlying trends in time series data arises in a variety of disciplines. In this paper we propose a variation on Hodrick-Prescott (H-P) filtering, a widely used method for trend estimation. The proposed l_1 trend filtering method substitutes a sum of absolute values (i.e., l_1-norm) for the sum of squares used in … Read more

On the solution of fuzzy bilevel programming problems

In this paper we formulate the fuzzy bilevel programming problem and describe one possible approach for formulating a crisp optimization problem being attached to it. Due to the nature of fuzzy bilevel programming this is a crisp bilevel programming problem. We compare our approach with one using multicriterial optimization and show, that both approaches are … Read more

Sharing Supermodular Costs

We study cooperative games with supermodular costs. We show that supermodular costs arise in a variety of situations: in particular, we show that the problem of minimizing a linear function over a supermodular polyhedron–a problem that often arises in combinatorial optimization–has supermodular optimal costs. In addition, we examine the computational complexity of the least core … Read more

Robust Nonconvex Optimization for Simulation-based Problems

In engineering design, an optimized solution often turns out to be suboptimal, when implementation errors are encountered. While the theory of robust convex optimization has taken significant strides over the past decade, all approaches fail if the underlying cost function is not explicitly given; it is even worse if the cost function is nonconvex. In … Read more

Generating All Efficient Extreme Points in Multiple Objective Linear Programming Problem and Its Application

In this paper, simple linear programming procedure is proposed for generating all efficient extreme points and all efficient extreme rays of a multiple objective linear programming problem (V P). As an application we solve the linear multiplicative programming associated with the problem (VP). Citation submitted Article Download View Generating All Efficient Extreme Points in Multiple … Read more

Outcome-Space Outer Approximation Algorithm for Linear Multiplicative Programming

This paper presents an outcome-space outer approximation algorithm for globally solving the linear multiplicative programming problem. We prove that the proposed algorithm is finite. To illustrate the new algorithm, we apply it to solve some sample problems. Citation 10, Hanoi University of Technology, 07/2007 Article Download View Outcome-Space Outer Approximation Algorithm for Linear Multiplicative Programming