An evolutionary programming solution to the unit commitment problem

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1452-1459

  Juste, K A ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evolutionary programming; Unit commitment

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING (EP) METHOD;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ELECTRIC LOAD DISPATCHING; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033222003     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/59.801925     Document Type: Article

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