The rising demand for clean energy production due to climate change emphasizes the importance of optimizing water resources, particularly in countries with significant hydropower potential. Existing models for the Operational Planning of Hydropower S...
Planning public electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure has gradually become a key factor in the electrification of mobility and decarbonization of the transport sector. In order to achieve a high level of electrification in mobility, in recent...
In contrast to rural distribution grids, which are mostly “feed-in oriented” in terms of electrical power, urban distribution grids are “load oriented”, as the number of customer connections and density of loads in urban areas...
This editorial introduces the Special Issue “Mathematical Methods and Operation Research in Planning, Scheduling and Supply Chain Operations Management” of the journal Mathematics. The Special Issue gathers nine peer-reviewed papers that,...
Computer-aided process planning represents the main link between computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing. One of the crucial tasks in computer-aided process planning is an operation sequencing problem. In order to find the optimal proc...
In response to the optimal operation of ocean container ships, this paper presents a two-level planning model that takes into account carbon tax policies. This model translates the CO2 emissions of ships into carbon tax costs and aims to minimize the...
This research is an effort to present the emergence of ways to enable marketers to attain high sensitivity and visibility in the supply chain network. It also aims to facilitate better multi-criteria decisions throughout the extended supply chain. It...
Space Station Operation Mission Planning (SSOMP) requires coordinated decisions across long-term activity allocation, mid-term logistics optimization, and short-term execution scheduling and is a key component of autonomous mission operations for hig...
This paper proposes the re-planning operation method using Tabu Search for direct current (DC) smart house with photovoltaic (PV), solar collector (SC), battery and heat pump system. The proposed method is based on solar radiation forecasting using r...
The growing penetration of wind power in a power system brings great challenges to system operation flexibility. For generation planning in presence of high wind power penetration, it is essential to take the operation flexibility of the system into...
Along with the increasing share of non-synchronous power sources, the inertia of power systems is being reduced, which can give rise to frequency containment problems should an outage of a generator or a power infeed happen. Low system inertia is eve...
In this study, geographic information system (GIS)-based methods and applications utilized for mine development were reviewed. Three types of GIS-based studies, namely studies on mine planning, operation, and environmental management, were examined t...
Growing penetration of uncoordinated Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in distribution systems is contributing to the increase of the load variability to be covered at the transmission system level. Forced, fast and substantial changes of power pla...
In this paper, the application of the method of affinely adjustable robust optimization to a planning model of an energy system under uncertain parameters is presented, and the total scheduling costs in comparison with the deterministic model are eva...
In recent years, open innovation and intellectual property rights have become critical factors to gain superior sustainable innovation performance. However, existing literature pays little attention to different open innovation strategies and their i...
To address the issues of low efficiency, insufficient coverage, and high energy consumption in wheat sowing path planning for large-scale irregular farmland, this study proposes an improved hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithm (TLG-PSO) for a...
In order to advocate for green and environmentally friendly travel modes, enhance the attractiveness of rail transit, and promote the sustainable development of rail transport, we focus on the transportation organization problem under limited-resourc...
Multi-system integration (e.g., high-speed rail, intercity rail, suburban rail, and metro) in regional rail transit has become an important strategy for enhancing regional travel quality. Nevertheless, optimizing line plans for such integrated networ...
Scenario generation and reduction based on a single variable (e.g., photovoltaic power or load forecasting) is a mainstream approach in current power system planning. However, such methods often overlook the temporal correlation between source and lo...
High-penetration distributed photovoltaic (PV) generation, energy storage, flexible loads, and voltage source converters (VSCs) are transforming distribution-system operation, making operational flexibility essential in planning. This paper proposes...
Virtual coupling uses wireless communication instead of mechanical coupling to ensure that trains are easily reconnected or disconnected. This technology can shorten the interval time between trains, give full play to the carrying capacity of lines,...
A smart city (SC) includes different systems that are highly interconnected. Transportation and energy systems are two of the most important ones that must be operated and planned in a coordinated framework. In this paper, with the complete implement...
The coupling between modern electric power physical and cyber systems is deepening. An increasing number of users are gradually participating in power operation and control, engaging in bidirectional interactions with the grid. The evolving new power...
Renewable energy systems have emerged as a crucial research area due to the escalating demand for sustainable energy solutions. With the advancement of renewable energy, the electric-thermal coupling within multi-energy systems has become more intric...
Integrated energy systems can provide a more efficient supply than individual systems by using resources such as cogeneration. To foster efficient management of these systems, the flexible operation of cogeneration resources should be considered for...
With the rapid development of precision agriculture technology worldwide, plant protection unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely applied in the prevention and control of agricultural pests and diseases due to their advantages such as unres...
With the continuous development of the Energy Internet, the demand for distributed energy storage is increasing. However, industrial and commercial users consume a large amount of electricity and have high requirements for energy quality; therefore,...
Severe weather events increasingly threaten the reliability of low-voltage distribution networks (LVDNs). Existing fault restoration strategies primarily focus on medium-voltage networks, leaving LVDNs highly vulnerable during prolonged grid outages....
Precision Farming (PF) and Controlled Traffic Farming (CTF) are well known concepts within agriculture, but the adoption rate of these practices by farmers is still very low, because farmers lack the needed skills or fail to see the benefits of using...
This paper provides new insights to the area of sustainable manufacturing systems at analyzing the novel paradigm of integrated production logistics, quality, and maintenance design. For this purpose, we investigate the optimal production and repair/...
A field area coverage-planning algorithm has been developed for the optimization and simulation of capacitated field operations such as the organic fertilizer application process. The proposed model provides an optimal coverage plan, which includes t...
A planned interruption of railway infrastructure is a situation where the operation of the track line or the operation of railway transport is limited. If there is also a restriction on the railway infrastructure, it means there will be complications...
The advent of mobile robots in agriculture has signaled a digital transformation with new automation technologies optimize a range of labor-intensive, resources-demanding, and time-consuming agri-field operations. To that end a generally accepted tec...
The meta-heuristic algorithms have been applied to handle various real-world optimization problems because their approach closely resembles natural human thinking and processing relatively quickly. Flowers pollination algorithm (FPA) is one of the ad...
Microgrid operations planning is one of the keys to ensuring the safe and efficient outputs of distributed energy resources (DERs) and the stable operation of a power system in a microgrid (MG). In this study, for the symmetry in renewable energy and...
This study investigates how key planning variables—the number of wood assortments, the geometric shape of clear-cut areas, and the extraction (forwarding) distance—influence greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Twelve plots formed a heterogene...
In countries with an extended use of district heating (DH), the integrated operation of DH and power systems can increase the flexibility of the power system, achieving a higher integration of renewable energy sources (RES). DH operators can not only...
Currently, the layout planning of power exchange facilities in urban areas is not perfect, which cannot effectively meet the power exchange demand of urban operating vehicles and restricts the operation of urban operating vehicles. The article propos...
Operational planning, automation, and optimisation of field operations are ways to sustain the production of food and feed. A coverage path planning method mitigating the optimisation and automation of harvest operations, characterised by capacity li...
This study investigates the impact of different aggregation operators (commonly referred to as fuzzy operators) on the application of fuzzy signatures. Fuzzy signatures are specialized multidimensional data structures that symbolically represent data...
For intercity railway transportation enterprises, a reasonable intercity train operation plan is not only the foundation of the intercity railway operation organization, but also the key to the sustainable development of the intercity railway (ICR)....
This research focuses on integrating seakeeping indices into the trajectory planning of a mother ship in order to minimize risks during UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) takeoff and landing in challenging sea conditions. By considering vessel dynamics an...
The difficulty of effectively planning and assigning weekly activities has a significant influence on the long-term productivity of an underground mine. It is an especially difficult task to choose the best places for operations inside an underground...
It is of great value to research the problem of forest pest and disease control. Currently, helicopters play an important role in dealing with this problem. However, the spraying route planning still depends on the pilot’s driving experience, w...
Pick-and-place operations are basic, and are currently the most common for robots operating in the industry. Massive applications makes it reasonable to ask whether, and to what extent these operations are realised in a way that guarantees rational e...
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), the prevailing global governance paradigm for sustainable ocean development, confronts the critical challenge of integrating climatic uncertainty into its core processes. Reliance on the stationarity assumption compromi...
Ocean energy is a relevant source of clean renewable energy, and as it is still facing challenges related to its above grid-parity costs, tariffs intended to support in a structured and coherent way are of great relevance and potential impact. The lo...
Trajectory planning is essential for robotic polishing tasks, as the effectiveness of this planning directly influences the quality of the work and the energy efficiency of the operation. This study introduces an innovative trajectory planning method...
Hydrocarbon supply chain (HCSC) is a complex network that extends from oil and gas fields to demand nodes. Integrating operation and maintenance activities along this complex network is crucial since the hydrocarbon industry is the most influential s...
Passenger demand for railway transportation rapidly increases in peak periods, and the transport capacity for existing trains is not sufficient. Railway companies usually adopt the strategy of adding additional trains in peak periods to meet the high...
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