Day-ahead optimal bidding strategy of microgrid with demand response program considering uncertainties and outages of renewable energy resources

Conducting an Evaluation Framework of Importance-Performance Analysis for Sustainable Forest Management in a Rural Area

“…We established an evaluation framework for SFM corresponding to FSC principles based on local people's perspectives using the IPA method, which included workers' rights and employment conditions [44,87], indigenous peoples' rights [12,32], community relations [40,47], environmental values and impact [12,44], and high conservation values [44,52], using eight SFM indicators (Figure 4). Secondly, we analyzed the matrix of the I-P levels of SFM indicators, and overall differences between non-indigenous and indigenous residents' perceptions of the eight SFM indicators, under the IPA evaluation framework [20,[23][24][25][27][28][29], with solid theoretical constructs. Finally, we identified the factors that affect local people's participation awareness of SFM based on local demographics, perceptions of SFM, and development factors for SFM (i.e., community consensus [19,45,53,57], financial support [19,58], human capital [19,59,60], and capacity building [19,59]).…”

“…Martilla and James [85] proposed an IPA, which was based on the customer's point of view and evaluated the products or services provided by a company. This research approach has been widely used in various fields over time [20,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. By establishing indicators for products and services before service (importance), and after service (performance), relevant causal relationships can be established [23].…”

“…were probed. This was designed to help enable respondents to establish an emotional and behavioral link with the current status of forests [20,27,28,91]. The interviews were managed by well-trained scholars at the four sites selected between June 2019 and April 2020 (Figure 1), using a stratified random-sampling procedure.…”

“…The IPA method identifies and integrates participants' perceptions of I-P indicators of a target into a two-dimensional grid arranged in four quadrants, so that the program leader can devote resources and design management strategies relevant to the "concentrate and main quadrant" based on the stakeholders' understanding of what has been explicitly plotted [20,[22][23][24]. In the past two decades, the IPA method has been employed in education [25], health care [26], ecosystem services [20,27,28], and hospitality and tourism [24,[29][30][31].…”

Sequential Tasks Shifting for Participation in Demand Response Programs

“…A DR aggregator is also considered to maximize the profit by implementing load shifting operation. Uncertainty and outage of RERs are focused on microgrid operation in [21]. Moreover, the time of use (TOU) DR program has been considered to shift some percentage of loads from critical periods to off-peak periods maintaining the total demand of power.…”