Solving the unit commitment problem with a genetic algorithm through a constraint satisfaction technique

Electric Power Systems Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-65

  Yang, Pai Chuan ^a   Yang, Hong Tzer ^b   Huang, Ching Lien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Optimization techniques; Unit commitment

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC LOAD DISPATCHING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BINARY STRINGS; ENHANCED ECONOMIC DISPATCH PROGRAM; PENALTY FACTORS; THERMAL UNIT COMMITMENT PROBLEM; TIME CONSTRAINTS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030123658     PISSN: 03787796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-7796(96)01036-X     Document Type: Article

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