An integrated multivariate approach for performance assessment and optimisation of electricity transmission systems

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 226-248

  Azadeh, Ali ^a   Movaghar, Somayeh Ahmadi ^a  

^a Center of Excellence in Geomatics Engineering and Disaster Prevention   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cost optimisation; Data envelopment analysis; DEA; Electricity transmission; PCA; Performance assessment; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST REDUCTION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; POWER QUALITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COST OPTIMISATION; ELECTRICITY COMPANIES; ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION; ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; NON-PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES; OPTIMISATION PROCEDURES; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SUPER EFFICIENCY DEA MODELS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954875155     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2010.030749     Document Type: Article

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