Economics of Power Systems / International Series in Operations Research & Management Science Bd.327 (PDF)

Makoto Tanaka is a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Japan, which is an interdisciplinary institute of economics, operations research, and other fields. He gained industrial experience working in the power sector before entering academia. He focuses on the interdisciplinary fields of economic analysis and operations research, with special interests in energy and environmental policy issues. He has worked on several government committees on the power industry in Japan.

Antonio J. Conejo is a professor at The Ohio State University, OH. He holds an M.S. from MIT, and a Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has published over 200 papers in refereed journals, and is the author or coauthor of various books published by Springer, John Wiley, McGraw-Hill and CRC. He is an INFORMS fellow, an IEEE fellow and a former editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.

Afzal S. Siddiqui is a professor in the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University and an adjunct professor in the Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis at Aalto University. Previously, he was Professor of Energy Economics in the Department of Statistical Science at University College London and a visiting professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at HEC Montréal. His research interests are in decision making under uncertainty and competition in the energy sector. He has also served as a consultant to the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology of the European Commission.