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Workshop on Optimisation methods and Energy Management

Forum 'Annonces' - Sujet créé le 2011-05-03 par ackooij

Workshop "Advanced Optimisation methods and their applications to unit commitment in energy management"
Call for Abstracts


Context
EDF R&D launches a working group "Energy and Optimization" dedicated to promoting academic research in the related topics by allowing teams to apply their research on industrial Optimisation problems. This working group will be the occasion for academic and industrial researchers in various fields in Optimisation to encounter each other and exchange.
In this context, groups dedicated to specific problems are currently created. These groups consist of academic and EDF researchers. In each group, several approaches will be investigated on a specific industrial open problem and on the basis of realistic data-sets. Developping new methodology, joint publications, joint PHD Thesis, trainees and eventually contracts of partnership around the most promising methods will be within the scope of the dedicated group.
One of these sub-groups, which the current announcement kicks off, will be dedicated to the topic of "unit-commitment". The first event of this group will be a workshop, where the problems will be presented in detail and a first analysis of methods will take place. The current announcement is an invitation to attend this first workshop and eventually join the group. Other workshops, conferences or seminars will be future events of the working-group.

Workshop Announcement and Call for Abstracts
The workshop "Advanced Optimisation methods and their applications to unit commitment in energy management" will be held at EDF R&D, Clamart, November 2011. The focus of the workshop is on Optimisation methods, algorithms and their application to formulations of the unit-commitment problem. The latter problem, as EDF is concerned, is characterized by its large scale and combinatorial features. Two major extensions have recently been defined. On the one hand, the increasing demand in details in the process of modelling the reality of energy production requires solvers to tackle increasingly complex problems. On the other hand, an intra-daily extension has arisen, i.e., in a very short time span, a reference schedule has to be modified, by changing production of a limited set of units, in order to meet updated load forecasts. Submitted abstracts should present theoretical background of the proposed methodology and link the latter with a formulation of the unit-commitment problems.

Workshop goals

The workshop will be the occasion for EDF to present the problems in detail and for participants to introduce various methods and formulations. There will also be room for discussion.

Time line
· Submission of Abstracts : 30th of June
· Author Notification : 5th of September
· Workshop : 22nd of November

Future Events
Future events of the sub-group will be dedicated to an analysis of the various methods and potentially some joint works in order to apply these to the problem. Depending on the presented methods, the working group might establish a contract with some of the teams in order to start joint works. Future workshops will contain more detailed numerical work. Moreover, intents are to publish future work in ESAIM proceedings.

Practical information
Extended abstracts should be submitted to wim.van-ackooij@edf.fr (scientific coordinator of the sub-group). Initial abstracts should cover 3 to 5 pages, provide references, sketch the main ideas and links with the unit-commitment problems.

Information concerning the workshop will frequently be updated and published on the following secure website :
https://coopernic-ext.edf.fr/lotus/myquickr/gt-optimisation_et_energie
A login can be obtained by sending an e-mail to laetitia.andrieu@edf.fr (working group coordinator). Obtaining a login might take one week.

The website will contain a detailed description of the problem in the form of a set of constraints and an objective function. It will also provide relevant information on both the recourse, here-and-now and second stage problems within this unit-commitment problem. Data sets will also be published in due time. Finally, the website will allow exchanges on the problem / workshop.

Scientific board
W. van Ackooij, K. Barty, B. Beauzamy, F. Bonnans, G. Doukopoulos, M. Gendreau, J-Ch. Gilbert, A. Lisser, J. Malick, M. Minoux, C. Sagastizabal, X. Warin