An electric energy consumer characterization framework based on data mining techniques

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 596-602

  Figueiredo, Vera ^a,b   Rodrigues, Fátima ^a,b   Vale, Zita ^a,b   Gouveia, Joaquim Borges ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Classification; Clustering; Consumer classes; Data mining; Decision trees; Load profiles; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CONSUMER CLASSES; ELECTRICITY CONSUMER CHARACTERIZATION; LOAD PROFILES;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 18944407569     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2005.846234     Document Type: Article

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