مشخصات پژوهش

Distribution companies (DisCos) are responsible of giving a reliable service to the customers otherwise they will incur customer dissatisfaction problem. Placement of sectionalizing switches used in this paper is one of the methods employed in distribution sector to increase the reliability level. As an initial works, it is studied in 1991 by [1] using fuzzy logic approach. Afterwards Billinton et al. in [2] have solved the optimal switch placement problem by genetic algorithm concerning different customer damage functions for different type of customers. In [3,4], the distribution network is automated by equipping the system to the automated and remote-controlled sectionalizing switches (RCS) in which the customer outage duration decreases but the capital and maintenance cost of switches increase with the infrastructure cost too.