Abstract: This paper presents a new algorithm for optimal power flow (OPF), which is based on P/Q decomposition of OPF problem and on combined application of quadratic and separable programming ...

1 Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. 2 School of Economic and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China. The nonlinear multidimensional knapsack problem ...

In this paper, we propose a new branch and bound algorithm for the solution of large scale separable concave programming problems. The largest distance bisection (LDB) technique is proposed to divide ...

ABSTRACT: The goal of this paper study is to schedule the power generation units to minimize fuel consumption cost based on a model that solves unit commitment problems. This can be done by utilizing ...

Separable programming : theory and methods by Stefanov, Stefan M Publication date 2001 Topics Convex programming Publisher Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers Collection internetarchivebooks; ...