Constraint oriented neighbourhoods - a new optimisation strategy for the unit commitment problem

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2004

Authors

Ana Viana (Author) FEUP; Jorge Pinho de Sousa (Author) FEUP; Manuel Matos (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings da MedPower'04 Conference and Exhibition

Pages: 1-8

Conference Proceedings da MedPower'04 Conference and Exhibition

Lemesos / Chipre, 14-17.Nov.2004

Other information

Abstract (EN): In recent years, metaheuristics have been applied with relative success to the Unit Commitment problem and methods like Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search and Genetic Algorithms can be found in several papers, presenting results that are sufficiently interesting to justify further research in the area. In this paper we propose a new search strategy to solve the problem, Constraint Oriented Neighbourhoods. This strategy has been tested in a set of case studies leading to very good results, and reducing drastically the computation times.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8