International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volume 3, Issue 4, October 2010, Pages 474 - 485

Power Distribution System Planning Evaluation by a Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Group Decision Support System

Authors
Tiefeng Zhang, Guangquan Zhang, Jun Ma, Jie Lu
Corresponding Author
Tiefeng Zhang
Received 29 March 2010, Accepted 25 May 2010, Available Online 1 October 2010.
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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Journal
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
Volume-Issue
3 - 4
Pages
474 - 485
Publication Date
2010/10/01
ISSN (Online)
1875-6883
ISSN (Print)
1875-6891
DOI
10.2991/ijcis.2010.3.4.7How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 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/).

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