Generating capacity reliability evaluation based on Monte Carlo simulation and cross-entropy methods

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 129-137

  Da Silva, Armando M L ^a   Fernández, Reinaldo A G ^a   Singh, Chanan ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ITAJUBÁ   (Brazil)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross entropy (CE) method; Generating capacity reliability (GCR); Importance sampling (IS); Monte Carlo simulation (MCS); Rare events; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

CROSS-ENTROPY METHOD; GENERATING CAPACITY; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RARE EVENT; RARE EVENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; ENTROPY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY FACTOR;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 76649107383     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2009.2036710     Document Type: Article

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