Particle Swarm Optimization applied to the nuclear reload problem of a Pressurized Water Reactor

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 319-326

  Meneses, Anderson Alvarenga de Moura ^a   Machado, Marcelo Dornellas ^a   Schirru, Roberto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Combinatorial optimization; Nuclear Reactor Reloading Problem; Particle Swarm Optimization; Random Keys; Traveling Salesman Problem

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BENCHMARKING; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KEYS (FOR LOCKS); NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

COMBINATORIAL PROBLEMS; METAHEURISTIC TECHNIQUES; PSO MODELS; RANDOM KEYS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTS; SEARCH SPACES;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 58349101511     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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