The University of British Columbia

Selected Publications

• Tang, Yeuhao and Shawwash Ziad, “Maintenance Scheduling of Hydro Generating Units in a Large Scale Hydroelectric System: Real-options vs. Stochastic Mixed Integer Programming algorithms,” in preparation.
• Abdulla, Alla and Shawwash, Ziad, “A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Solve the Multi-Reservoir Operations Problem,” in preparation.
• Mazariegos, Raquel, Shawwash, Ziad and Robinson, Douglas D., “Allocating Within-the-hour Load Uncertainty on Automatic Generation Control Hydro Units: A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Algorithm,” in prepartation.
• Sentlinger, Gabriel and Shawwash, Ziad, “Use of GIS Systems in Small Hydro Project Analysis, Design and Development”, in preparation.
• Shawwash, Ziad, “Impact of the Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project on the Water Balance of the Dead Sea,” in preparation.
• Shawwash, Ziad, “Optimal Design of the Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance System to Refill the Dead Sea,” in preparation.
• Li, Jian, Shawwash, Ziad K., and Alila, Younes, “A Neural network model for real-time flood forecasting for small hydro plants”, submitted to ASEC Water Res. Plan. And Management.
• Alaa Abdalla, Ziad Shawwash, Denis Russell, Thomas Siu, 2005 “Hydroelectric Multi reservoir System Control Applying Reinforcement Learning: theoretical Framework and Early Results,” OR48  Bath 11-13 Sept 2006.
• Thomas, Siu, Louie, Herbert Louie, Alaa Abdalla and Ziad Shawwash , 2005, “Evaluation of Alternative Operating Criteria Under the Water Use Planning (WUP) Process in British Columbia,” American Water Resources Conference, Seattle, November 7 -10, 2005.
• Abdalla, Alaa, Shawwash, Ziad, Siu, Thomas, 2005, “A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Optimal Control of Hydroelectric Multireservoir System,”American Water Resource Conference in Seattle, November 7 -10, 2005.
• Shawwash, Z.K., Siu. T. K., A. A. Alavi, N. S. De Zoysa, 2003, “A Hybrid System to Optimize the Value of Imports for Hydro Systems,” IEEE ISAP2003 conference, August 2003, Athens, Greece.
• Shawwash, Z.K., A. A. Alavi and Siu. T. K., 2003, “A Decision Support System to Optimize the Operation of Hydro Generating Systems,” International Energy Forum, May 2003, Tehran, Iran.
• Siu, T. K., Nash, G. and Shawwash, Z. K., 2001, “A Practical Hydro Dynamic Unit Commitment and Loading Model,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, April. 01.
• Shawwash, Z.K., Siu. T. K., Nash, G., Gosselin, R., Dai, N., “Dynamic Unit Commitment and Loading of Hydro Systems,” IEEE ISAP2001 Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 18-21, 2001.
• Shawwash, Z. K., Siu, T. K. and Russell, S.O.R, 2000, “A Decision Support System for Hydroelectric Generation and Spot Trade Scheduling in Competitive Markets,” in Advanced Process Control Applications for Industry Workshop, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, April 2000.
• Shawwash, Ziad K., 2000, “A Decision Support System for Real-time Hydropower Scheduling in a Competitive Power Market Environment,” Doctor of Philosophy Thesis (Ph.D.), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
• Shawwash, Z. K., Siu, T. K. and Russell, S.O.R, 1999, “The B.C. Hydro Short-term Hydro Scheduling Optimization model,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, August, 2000.
• Shawwash, Z. K., Siu, T. K. and Russell, S.O.R, 1999, “A decision support system for short term hydropower scheduling and reservoir management in a competitive market,” ASCE Water Resources Management Conference, Arizona, U.S.A, June 1999.
• Shawwash, Z., Buchko, M., Meech, J.A., Russell, S.O., 1998, “The Flood Management and Control Expert System (FMCES): A Management Tool for Operating the Cheakamus Dam Project,” CWRA 51st Annual Conference Proceedings” Canadian Water Resources Assoc., June 10-12, 1998, pp 174-179.
• Shawwash, Z., Russell, S.O., 1997, “Use of System Dynamics for Managing Water in Jordan,” The 1996 International System Dynamics Conference, Cambridge Massachusetts, July, 1997.
• Shawwash, Z., Russell, S.O., 1996, “Use of Simulation Environments for Managing Water in Jordan,” CWRA 50st Annual Conference Proceedings” Canadian Water Resources Association, June 10-12, 1996, pp 174-179.
• Shawwash, Ziad K., 1995, “Managing water in Jordan: an interactive system dynamics simulation approach,” Master of Applied Science Thesis (M.A.Sc.), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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