Energy planning of a hospital using Mathematical Programming and Monte Carlo simulation for dealing with uncertainty in the economic parameters

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 722-731

  Mavrotas, George ^a   Florios, Kostas ^a   Vlachou, Dimitra ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Energy planning; Mathematical Programming; MILP; Monte Carlo; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY ENERGY; COOLING LOAD; COST MINIMIZATION; DECISION MAKERS; ECONOMIC PARAMETERS; ENERGY CONSUMER; ENERGY MARKETS; ENERGY MODEL; ENERGY PLANNING; FUEL COST; INTEREST RATES; LOAD DATA; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MODEL REDUCTION; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; REGIONAL LEVELS; TECHNICAL PROGRESS; UNCERTAINTY MODELLING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; HOSPITALS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DATA COMPRESSION;

EID: 75149153232     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2009.10.029     Document Type: Article

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