Power Distribution System Planning Evaluation by a Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Group Decision Support System
- DOI
- 10.2991/ijcis.2010.3.4.7How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Power distribution system planning, decision support systems, multi-criteria decision making, group decision-making, fuzzy sets
- Abstract
The evaluation of solutions is an important phase in power distribution system planning (PDSP) which allows issues such as quality of supply, cost, social service and environmental implications to be considered and usually involves the judgments of a group of experts. The planning problem is thus suitable for the multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) method. The evaluation process and evaluation criteria often involve uncertainties incorporated in quantitative analysis with crisp values and qualitative judgments with linguistic terms; therefore, fuzzy sets techniques are applied in this study. This paper proposes a fuzzy multi-criteria group decision-making (FMCGDM) method for PDSP evaluation and applies a fuzzy multi-criteria group decision support system (FMCGDSS) to support the evaluation task. We introduce a PDSP evaluation model, which has evaluation criteria within three levels, based on the characteristics of a power distribution system. A case-based example is performed on a test distribution network and demonstrates how all the problems in a PDSP evaluation are addressed using FMCGDSS. The results are acceptable to expert evaluators.
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- © 2010, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - JOUR AU - Tiefeng Zhang AU - Guangquan Zhang AU - Jun Ma AU - Jie Lu PY - 2010 DA - 2010/10/01 TI - Power Distribution System Planning Evaluation by a Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Group Decision Support System JO - International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems SP - 474 EP - 485 VL - 3 IS - 4 SN - 1875-6883 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ijcis.2010.3.4.7 DO - 10.2991/ijcis.2010.3.4.7 ID - Zhang2010 ER -