A hybrid neural network and simulated annealing approach to the unit commitment problem

A Hybrid Neural Network and Simulated Annealing Approach to the Unit Commitment Problem

In this paper, the authors present an approach combining the feedforward neural network and the simulated annealing method to solve unit commitment, a mixed integer combinatorial optimisation problem in power system. The artificial neural network (ANN) is used to determine the discrete variables corresponding to the state of each unit at each time interval. The simulated annealing method is use...

Simulated Annealing Combined with Evolutionary Algorithm to Unit Commitment Problem

A simulated annealing approach to solve the network design of one-way streets: case of Shiraz network

This study is devoted to the formulation of the network design problem of one-way streets and the application of simulated annealing (SA) algorithm to solve this problem for a large real network. It discusses some points of views on one-way street networks, the objective function used for design, the way in which design constraints may be considered, and the traffic problems concerning one-way ...

A new Simulated Annealing algorithm for the robust coloring problem

The Robust Coloring Problem (RCP) is a generalization of the well-known Graph Coloring Problem where we seek for a solution that remains valid when extra edges are added. The RCP is used in scheduling of events with possible last-minute changes and study frequency assignments of the electromagnetic spectrum. This problem has been proved as NP-hard and in instances larger than 30 vertices, meta-...

A simulated annealing approach to the traveling tournament problem

Automating the scheduling of sport leagues has received considerable attention in recent years, as these applications involve significant revenues and generate challenging combinatorial optimization problems. This paper considers the traveling tournament problem (TTP) proposed in [10, 4] to abstract the salient features of major league baseball (MLB) in the United States. It proposes a simulate...