IGDT based robust decision making tool for DNOs in load procurement under severe uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 886-895

  Soroudi, Alireza ^a   Ehsan, Mehdi ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bilateral contracts; distributed generation; information gap decision theory; risk; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL CONTRACTS; DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORKS; DEREGULATED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED GENERATIONS (DGS); DISTRIBUTION NETWORK OPERATORS; INFORMATION GAP; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; UNCERTAINTY;

COMMERCE; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENERGY RESOURCES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISKS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84878337624     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2012.2214071     Document Type: Article

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