An Experimental Method of Determination of Optimal Maintenance Schedules in Power Systems Using the Branch-and-Bound Technique

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 1976, Pages 538-547

  Egan, Gerard T ^a   Dillon, Tharam S ^a   Morsztyn, Karol ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; SCHEDULING;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0016990741     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.1976.4309548     Document Type: Article

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