Authors: Todosijević, Raca 
Mladenović, Marko
Hanafi, Saïd
Mladenović, Nenad 
Crévits, Igor
Affiliations: Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 
Title: Adaptive general variable neighborhood search heuristics for solving the unit commitment problem
Journal: International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems
Volume: 78
First page: 873
Last page: 883
Issue Date: 1-Jun-2016
Rank: M21
ISSN: 0142-0615
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2015.12.031
Abstract: 
The unit commitment problem (UCP) for thermal units consists of finding an optimal electricity production plan for a given time horizon. In this paper we propose hybrid approaches which combine Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) metaheuristic and mathematical programming to solve this NP-hard problem. Four new VNS based methods, including one with adaptive choice of neighborhood order used within deterministic exploration of neighborhoods, are proposed. A convex economic dispatch subproblem is solved by Lambda iteration method in each time period. Extensive computational experiments are performed on well-known test instances from the literature as well as on new large instances generated by us. It appears that the proposed heuristics successfully solve both small and large scale problems. Moreover, they outperform other well-known heuristics that can be considered as the state-of-the-art approaches.
Keywords: Mixed integer nonlinear problem | Power systems | Unit commitment problem | Variable neighborhood search
Publisher: Elsevier
Project: RSF, grant 14-41-00039

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