Redundancy allocation problem of multi state power systems using ant colony system

International Review of Electrical Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1715-1720

  Bendjeghaba, O ^a   Ouahdi, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOUMERDES   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Ant colony system (ACS); Heterogeneous redundancy allocation problem (HRAP); Metaheuristic; Multi state power systems (MSPS); Universal moment generating function (UMGF)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956193396     PISSN: 18276660     EISSN: 25332244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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