An improved differential evolution scheme for the solution of large-scale unit commitment problems

Informatica

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-190

  Chang, Chen Sung ^a  

^a NAN KAI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

differential evolution; improved differential evolution; unit commitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954773361     PISSN: 08684952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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