Electricity markets have a fundamental flaw. Electrical energy is traded in (quartly) hourly slots (PTUs) and it does not matter when during this interval the energy is generated (or consumed). However, power generated needs to equal power consumed at all times. In the European synchronous zone, this leads to frequency …
The list of workshops for the ICAPS conference in Delft (June 25-26 2018) has been published. All have deadlines early March 2018 and notifications in April. Please click the links below for details. Acronym Workshop Organizers COPLAS Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Roman Bartak Miguel Salido HSDIP Heuristics …
When flexible electrical loads share remaining network capacity, the exact capacity available is usually not known in advance. Furthermore, there may be periods where there is no communication possible. Last week Frits de Nijs (as first author) submitted the final (camera-ready) version of a paper with Matthijs Spaan and me …
This week my first journal paper with German Morales was published. It is titled Robust Unit Commitment with Dispatchable Wind Power and published open-access in the journal on Electric Power Systems Research. German joined our group as a post-doc on the Gaming beyond the Copper Plate (GCP) project, where he …
With Matthijs Spaan and help of many others, we are organizing the 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) in Delft. We have just sent out the call for papers. Please submit! The ICAPS 2018 program committee invites paper submissions related to automated planning and scheduling. Relevant contributions …
I’m co-chairing the 15th International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR) with Willem-Jan van Hoeve. It will be will be held in Delft, The Netherlands, June 26-29, and co-located with the 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). We have just sent out …
Last week I started at the Dutch Railways in Bob Huisman’s group on Maintenance Research and Development as a scientific advisor, for one day a week. My aim is to support and further increase the exchange of knowledge and experience between Dutch Railways and Delft University of Technology. I aim …
State-of-the-art in-car navigation systems contribute to preventing road congestion, because avoiding traffic jams helps dissolving it. Currently, the more advanced systems already are using both historic travel times as well as recently observed travel times to estimate future travel times for road segments, and base their route navigation advice upon …