Machine Learning and Data Mining Applications in Power Systems.

This Special Issue was intended as a forum to advance research and apply machine-learning and data-mining methods in order to facilitate the development of modern electric power systems, grids and devices, smart grids and protection devices, as well as to develop tools for more accurate and efficient power system analysis. Machine learning algorithms, optimization techniques and efficient numerical algorithms, distributed signal processing, machine learning, data-mining statistical signal detection, and estimation may help in solving contemporary challenges in modern power systems. To conclude, with reference to presented papers, we have seen a broad spectrum of data-mining and modern machine-learning techniques applied to recent problems of operation of power systems. [Extracted from the article]