Optimizing the natural gas supply mix of local distribution utilities

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 598-612

  Guldmann, Jean Michel ^a   Wang, Fahui ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy; Optimization; Purchasing; Regression; Simulation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRACTS; GAS INDUSTRY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PURCHASING; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LOCAL GAS DISTRIBUTION UTILITIES; MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING (MILP);

LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0033078422     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(97)00415-3     Document Type: Article

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