Metamodel-assisted evolutionary algorithms for the unit commitment problem with probabilistic outages

Applied Energy

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1782-1792

  Georgopoulou, Chariklia A ^a   Giannakoglou, Kyriakos C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Metamodels; Probabilistic outages; Two level evolutionary algorithms; Unit commitment

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; OUTAGES; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; REPAIR;

EVALUATION MODELS; META MODEL; POWER GENERATING UNITS; PRE-EVALUATION; SCHEDULING PERIODS; UNAVAILABILITY PERIODS; UNIT COMMITMENT PROBLEM; UNIT-COMMITMENT;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; POWER GENERATION; SIMULATION;

EID: 75149125524     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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