Computers & Chemical Engineering, Vol.126, 342-355, 2019
A computational framework for quantifying and analyzing system flexibility
We present a computational framework for analyzing and quantifying system flexibility. Our framework incorporates new features that include: general uncertainty characterizations that are constructed using composition of sets, procedures for computing well-centered nominal points, and a procedure for identifying and ranking flexibility-limiting constraints and critical parameter values. These capabilities allow us to analyze the flexibility of complex systems such as distribution networks. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.