Profit based unit commitment: A parallel ABC approach using a workstation cluster

Computers and Electrical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 724-745

  Christopher Columbus, C ^a   Simon, Sishaj P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

10-UNIT SYSTEMS; ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONIES; COMPUTING RESOURCE; ECONOMIC DISPATCH; GENERATING UNIT; GENERATION COMPANIES; LARGE-SCALE POWER SYSTEMS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; PROFIT BASED UNIT COMMITMENT; SHARED MEMORY MODEL; SOLUTION QUALITY; TIME COMPLEXITY; TRADITIONAL POWER SYSTEM; UNIT COMMITMENT PROBLEM; WORKSTATION CLUSTERS;

SCHEDULING;

PROFITABILITY;

EID: 84860293718     PISSN: 00457906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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