Table 12 Scalability analysis of the proposed PSO-C&CG algorithm.

From: An optimization method for integrated demand response strategies for electricity and heat considering the uncertainty of user-side loads

Performance metric

Small-scale system

Medium-scale system

Large-scale system

Number of users

50

200

500

C&CG iterations

15

18

22

Total computation time (s)

90.8

238.4

724.6

Master problem time (s)

43.3

118.2

358.7

Subproblem time (s)

47.5

120.2

365.9