Adaptive-edge search for power plant start-up scheduling

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 518-530

  Kamiya, Akimoto ^a   Kawai, Kensuke ^a   Ono, Isao ^a   Kobayashi, Shigenobu ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active constraint; Genetic algorithms; Optimization; Power plant; Start up scheduling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE EDGE SEARCH;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT STARTUP; SCHEDULING;

CONSTRAINT THEORY;

EID: 0033221293     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5326.798766     Document Type: Article

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