Unit commitment using the ant colony search algorithm

LESCOPE 2002 - 2002 Large Engineering Systems Conference on Power Engineering: Energy for the Future, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2-6

  Sisworahardjo, N S ^a   El Keib, A A ^a  

^a University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant colony search algorithm; distributed cooperative agents; optimization; unit commitment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; FEEDBACK; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANT COLONY SEARCH ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; COOPERATIVE AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONS; EARLY CONVERGENCE; REAL POWER BALANCE; UNIT COMMITMENT PROBLEM; UNIT-COMMITMENT;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84961898812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LESCPE.2002.1020658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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