A Metropolis Algorithm applied to a Nuclear Power Plant Auxiliary Feedwater System surveillance tests policy optimization

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-21

  Sacco, Wagner F ^a   Lapa, Celso M F ^b   Pereira, Cláudio M N A ^b   Alves Filho, Hermes ^a  

^a Instituto Politecnico   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Metaheuristics; Metropolis Algorithms; Surveillance tests policy optimization

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AUXILIARY POWER SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

METROPOLIS ALGORITHM; PARTICLE COLLISION ALGORITHM (PCA); SURVEILLANCE TESTS POLICY OPTIMIZATION;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 39149121894     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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