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Ancillary service impact on outpatient scheduling

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2013
Purpose – The paper aims to provide a simulation optimization solution to improve patient scheduling that accounts for varying ancillary service time such as x-ray to minimize patient wait time. Design/methodology/approach – The two-step approach is to: identify ...
Yu-Li Huang
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Reactive power as an ancillary service

pica 2001. Innovative Computing for Power - Electric Energy Meets the Market. 22nd IEEE Power Engineering Society. International Conference on Power Industry Computer Applications (Cat. No.01CH37195), 2001
This paper addresses the problem of reactive power procurement by an independent system operator (ISO) in deregulated electricity markets. A reactive bid structure is proposed in the context of a reactive power market. Based on the reactive power price offers and technical constraints involved in reactive power planning, a two-tier approach is ...
Bhattacharya, K, Zhong, J
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Pricing Ancillary Service Subscriptions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
We investigate heterogeneous customer choice behavior in the presence of main products—ancillary services with options of pay-per-use and subscription—and outside option. The willingness to pay for a service subscription is derived as a closed-form expression, which enables us to characterize the optimal pricing strategy and the impact of service ...
Ruxian Wang, Maqbool Dada, Özge Sahin
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Regulation of ancillary services

Clinics in Sports Medicine, 2002
Operation of ancillary services is highly regulated. The regulations are not always logical, but they are navigable. Be sure to work with a health care attorney who is familiar with the rules. Be careful to fully disclose all relevant facts. Most importantly, ask a lot of questions. The rules are complicated, but they are understandable.
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Demand Response for Ancillary Services

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2013
Many demand response resources are technically capable of providing ancillary services. In some cases, they can provide superior response to generators, as the curtailment of load is typically much faster than ramping thermal and hydropower plants. Analysis and quantification of demand response resources providing ancillary services is necessary to ...
Ookie Ma   +15 more
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Auctions for ancillary services

Decision Support Systems, 1999
Abstract This paper discusses the procurement of ancillary services in a competitive electricity market. The paper assumes the existence of an underlying market for energy and explains why this energy market must be accompanied by a market for ancillary services.
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Ancillary Service Markets

2007 Large Engineering Systems Conference on Power Engineering, 2007
Ancillary services are generally referred as those services other than energy that are essential for ensuring reliable operation of electric power systems. This paper discusses different approaches for procuring required ancillary services for power system security. Furthermore, various design options for ancillary service markets are studied.
Amir Motamedi, Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad
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Ancillary service market

2008 Third International Forum on Strategic Technologies, 2008
At transition from the integrated regulation of electric power industry to the separate regulation of its segments in the field of the production of electric power, is formed the market for electric power with the development of its technological and commercial infrastructures.
Bayasgalan Zagdkhorol, S.V. Shuljenko
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