<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Optimal control of investments for quality of supply improvement in electrical energy distribution networks"^^ . "This paper considers the problem of deciding multi-period investments for maintenance and upgrade of electrical energy distribution networks. After describing the network as a constrained hybrid dynamical system, optimal control theory is applied to optimize profit under a complex incentive/penalty mechanism imposed by public authorities. The dynamics of the system and the cost function are translated into a mixed integer optimization model, whose solution gives the optimal investment policy over the multi-period horizon. While for a reduced-size test problem the pure mixed-integer approach provides the best optimal control policy, for real-life large-scale scenarios a heuristic solution is also introduced. Finally, the uncertainty associated with the dynamical model of the network is taken care of by adopting ideas from stochastic programming."^^ . "2006-08" . "42" . "8" . . "Elsevier Science Limited"^^ . . . "Automatica"^^ . . . "00051098" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Peter"^^ . "Piazzesi"^^ . "Peter Piazzesi"^^ . . "Alberto"^^ . "Bemporad"^^ . "Alberto Bemporad"^^ . . "David"^^ . "Muñoz de la Peña"^^ . "David Muñoz de la Peña"^^ . . . . . "HTML Summary of #494 \n\nOptimal control of investments for quality of supply improvement in electrical energy distribution networks\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "HB Economic Theory"@en . . . "TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering"@en . .