Ant colony optimization for power plant maintenance scheduling optimization—a five-station hydropower system

Wai Foong (), Angus Simpson, Holger Maier and Stephen Stolp

Annals of Operations Research, 2008, vol. 159, issue 1, 433-450

Abstract: A number of algorithms have been developed for the optimization of power plant maintenance schedules. However, the true test of such algorithms occurs when they are applied to real systems. In this paper, the application of an Ant Colony Optimization formulation to a hydropower system is presented. The formulation is found to be effective in handling various constraints commonly encountered in practice. Overall, the results obtained using the ACO formulation are better than those given by traditional methods using engineering judgment, which indicates the potential of ACO in solving realistic power plant maintenance scheduling problems. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2008

Keywords: Power plant maintenance scheduling; Hydropower; Hydroelectricity; Ant colony optimization; Constraints; Heuristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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