Modelling to generate alternatives with an energy system optimization model

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 79, Issue , 2016, Pages 300-310

  DeCarolis, J F ^a   Babaee, S ^a   Li, B ^a   Kanungo, S ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy systems; Mathematical modeling; Optimization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960475022     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: 18736726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.11.019     Document Type: Article

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