@TechReport{Langdon97,
  author      = "William B Langdon",
  title       = {Scheduling Planned Maintenance of Electrical Power Transmission Networks Using Genetic Algorithms},
  institution = {University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science},
  number      = {CSRP-97-26},
  month       = {November},
  year        = {1997},
  email       = {W.B.Langdon@cs.bham.ac.uk},
  file        = {/1997/CSRP-97-26.ps.gz},
  url         = {ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/tech-reports/1997/CSRP-97-26.ps.gz},
  abstract    = {The maintenance of the electrical power transmission
                 networks must be planned in advance so as to minimise
                 costs taking into account:
                 
                 location and size of demand for electricity,
                 
                 generator capacities and availabilities,
                 
                 electricity carrying capacity of the remainder of the
                 network, i.e. that part not undergoing maintenance,
                 
                 resilience of the network to faults (contingencies).
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 This complex optimisation and scheduling problem is
                 currently performed manually (albeit with some
                 computerised assistance). This paper reports recent work
                 aiming to automatically generate low cost schedules using
                 genetic algorithms (GA) and genetic programming (GP) using
                 the South Wales region as a demonstration network.
                 },
}