Definition of MV load diagrams via weighted evidence accumulation clustering using subsampling

  • Authors:
  • Jorge Duarte;Ana Fred;Fátima Rodrigues;Joáo Duarte;Sérgio Ramos;Zita Vale

  • Affiliations:
  • GECAD - Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Superior Politécnico, Porto, Portugal;Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal;GECAD - Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Superior Politécnico, Porto, Portugal;GECAD - Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Superior Politécnico, Porto, Portugal;GECAD - Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Superior Politécnico, Porto, Portugal;GECAD - Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Superior Politécnico, Porto, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • ISPRA'07 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Signal Processing, Robotics and Automation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A definition of medium voltage (MV) load diagrams was made, based on the data base knowledge discovery process. Clustering techniques were used as support for the agents of the electric power retail markets to obtain specific knowledge of their customers' consumption habits. Each customer class resulting from the clustering operation is represented by its load diagram. The Two-step clustering algorithm and the WEACS approach based on evidence accumulation (EAC) were applied to an electricity consumption data from a utility client's database in order to form the customer's classes and to find a set of representative consumption patterns. The WEACS approach is a clustering ensemble combination approach that uses subsampling and that weights differently the partitions in the co-association matrix. As a complementary step to the WEACS approach, all the final data partitions produced by the different variations of the method are combined and the Ward Link algorithm is used to obtain the final data partition. Experiment results showed that WEACS approach led to better accuracy than many other clustering approaches. In this paper the WEACS approach separates better the customer's population than Two-step clustering algorithm.