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Decarbonisation is driving dramatic growth in renewable power generation. This increases uncertainty in the load to be served by power plants and makes their efficient scheduling, known as the unit commitment (UC) problem, more difficult.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-12 Cormac O'Malley , Patrick de Mars , Luis Badesa , Goran Strbac

Unit commitment (UC) is a fundamental problem in the day-ahead electricity market, and it is critical to solve UC problems efficiently. Mathematical optimization techniques like dynamic programming, Lagrangian relaxation, and mixed-integer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Jingtao Qin , Yuanqi Gao , Mikhail Bragin , Nanpeng Yu

With increased reliance on cyber infrastructure, large scale power networks face new challenges owing to computational scalability. In this paper we focus on developing an asynchronous decentralized solution framework for the Unit…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Paritosh Ramanan , Murat Yildirim , Edmond Chow , Nagi Gebraeel

We propose a unified framework to address a family of classical mixed-integer optimization problems with logically constrained decision variables, including network design, facility location, unit commitment, sparse portfolio selection,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

With rapid integration of power sources with uncertainty, robustness must be carefully considered in the transmission constrained unit commitment (TCUC) problem. The overall computational complexity of the robust TCUC methods is closely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Xuan Li , Qiaozhu Zhai , Xiaohong Guan

Power systems Unit Commitment (UC) problem determines the generator commitment schedule and dispatch decisions for power networks based on forecasted electricity demand. However, with the increasing penetration of renewables and stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Xuan He , Jiayu Tian , Yufan Zhang , Honglin Wen , Yize Chen

Constraint handling remains a key bottleneck in quantum combinatorial optimization. While slack-variable-based encodings are straightforward, they significantly increase qubit counts and circuit depth, challenging the scalability of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Monit Sharma , Hoong Chuin Lau

The thermal unit commitment (UC) problem often can be formulated as a mixed integer quadratic programming (MIQP), which is difficult to solve efficiently, especially for large-scale instances. In this paper, with projecting unit generation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Linfeng Yang , Chen Zhang , Jinbao Jian , Ke Meng , Zhaoyang Dong

As renewable wind energy penetration rates continue to increase, one of the major challenges facing grid operators is the question of how to control transmission grids in a reliable and a cost-efficient manner. The stochastic nature of wind…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Kaarthik Sundar , Harsha Nagarajan , Line Roald , Sidhant Misra , Russell Bent , Daniel Bienstock

Constrained combinatorial optimization problems (CCOPs) are challenging to solve due to the exponential growth of the solution space. When tackled with Ising machines, constraints are typically enforced by the penalty function method, whose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-31 Shunta Ide , Shuta Kikuchi , Shu Tanaka

We propose a novel computational method for unit commitment UC, which does not require linearized approximation and provides several orders of magnitude performance improvement over current state-of-the-art. The performance improvement is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Shaked Regev , Eve Tsybina , Slaven Peles

The Unit Commitment (UC) problem is a classic challenge in the optimal scheduling of power systems. Years of research and practice have shown that formulating reasonable unit commitment plans can significantly improve the economic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Junjin Lv , Chenggang Cui , Shaodi Zhang , Hui Chen , Chunyang Gong , Jiaming Liu

In this paper, we study unit commitment (UC) problems considering the uncertainty of load and wind power generation. UC problem is formulated as a chance-constrained two-stage stochastic programming problem where the chance constraint is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Yao Zhang , Jianxue Wang , Bo Zeng , Zechun Hu

Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP), particularly Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP), has found extensive applications in domains such as portfolio optimization and network flow control, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Zayn Wang

Polynomial optimization problems represent a wide class of optimization problems, with a large number of real-world applications. Current approaches for polynomial optimization, such as the sum of squares (SOS) method, rely on large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Dimitris Bertsimas , Dick den Hertog , Thodoris Koukouvinos

This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

Security Constraint Unit commitment (SCUC) is one of the significant challenges in operation of power grids which tries to regulate the status of the generation units (ON or OFF) and providing an efficient power dispatch within the grid.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Ali Yazdandoost , Peyman Khazaei , Rahim Kamali , Salar Saadatian

Block Coordinate Update (BCU) methods enjoy low per-update computational complexity because every time only one or a few block variables would need to be updated among possibly a large number of blocks. They are also easily parallelized and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Yangyang Xu , Shuzhong Zhang

This paper is about how to partition decision variables while decomposing a large-scale optimization problem for the best performance of distributed solution methods. Solving a large-scale optimization problem sequen- tially can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-26 Yuchen Zheng , Ilbin Lee , Nicoleta Serban

Unit commitment (UC) are essential tools to transmission system operators for finding the most economical and feasible generation schedules and dispatch signals. Constraint screening has been receiving attention as it holds the promise for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Xuan He , Honglin Wen , Yufan Zhang , Yize Chen