Pub Date : 2016-04-20DOI: 10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492425
Murat Akcin, A. Kaygusuz, A. Karabiber, S. Alagoz, B. Alagoz, Cemal Keleş
Rapid migration from rural to urban areas leads to the emergence of urbanization and sustainability problems. Management and monitoring of resources and infrastructures are getting more important today in crowded cities. Energy consumption is increasing with the growing population and intensified in highly populated parts of cities. This increased energy consumption results in high energy demand as well as the production of more pollutants and heat in these city parts. The management of pollution and heat problems leads to an additional energy demand. Therefore, energy efficiency is becoming central challenge for urban life similar to energy efficient structuring of living organisms. Practically, all activities arranging city life require energy. For instance, job activities, transportation, security, climate, catering, entertainment, commerce etc. In this study, we review active and passive approaches, which can be utilized for improvement of energy efficiency and thus sustainability of urbanization in today's cities. We give a discussion to present a vision for future smart cities in term of improvement of energy utilization and efficiency, and relieve of environmental issues. These approaches can be helpful for future cities for relieving issues originating from population increase.
{"title":"Opportunities for energy efficiency in smart cities","authors":"Murat Akcin, A. Kaygusuz, A. Karabiber, S. Alagoz, B. Alagoz, Cemal Keleş","doi":"10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492425","url":null,"abstract":"Rapid migration from rural to urban areas leads to the emergence of urbanization and sustainability problems. Management and monitoring of resources and infrastructures are getting more important today in crowded cities. Energy consumption is increasing with the growing population and intensified in highly populated parts of cities. This increased energy consumption results in high energy demand as well as the production of more pollutants and heat in these city parts. The management of pollution and heat problems leads to an additional energy demand. Therefore, energy efficiency is becoming central challenge for urban life similar to energy efficient structuring of living organisms. Practically, all activities arranging city life require energy. For instance, job activities, transportation, security, climate, catering, entertainment, commerce etc. In this study, we review active and passive approaches, which can be utilized for improvement of energy efficiency and thus sustainability of urbanization in today's cities. We give a discussion to present a vision for future smart cities in term of improvement of energy utilization and efficiency, and relieve of environmental issues. These approaches can be helpful for future cities for relieving issues originating from population increase.","PeriodicalId":403426,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Istanbul Smart Grid Congress and Fair (ICSG)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134196568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-04-20DOI: 10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492416
Cemal Keleş, A. Kaygusuz, B. Alagoz
Smart grid applications aims to employ many optimization and artificial intelligence methods for optimal energy management. Results of these algorithms need to be implemented by power systems in practice. This study presents Time Rate Multiple Pulse Width Modulation (TRM-PWM) methods for multi-source energy mixing for DC microgrids, which is integrating several renewable energy resources. In the paper, we implement TRM-PWM multi-source energy mixer component for integration of energy flow coming from solar and wind energy systems, battery system and grid in MATLAB simulink. Simulation results show that proposed energy mixer component can adjust rate of energy mixing from different sources. By using this component, optimal energy mixing, which can be adjusted by optimization and artificial intelligence methods, can be realized in smart grid applications.
{"title":"Multi-source energy mixing by time rate multiple PWM for microgrids","authors":"Cemal Keleş, A. Kaygusuz, B. Alagoz","doi":"10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492416","url":null,"abstract":"Smart grid applications aims to employ many optimization and artificial intelligence methods for optimal energy management. Results of these algorithms need to be implemented by power systems in practice. This study presents Time Rate Multiple Pulse Width Modulation (TRM-PWM) methods for multi-source energy mixing for DC microgrids, which is integrating several renewable energy resources. In the paper, we implement TRM-PWM multi-source energy mixer component for integration of energy flow coming from solar and wind energy systems, battery system and grid in MATLAB simulink. Simulation results show that proposed energy mixer component can adjust rate of energy mixing from different sources. By using this component, optimal energy mixing, which can be adjusted by optimization and artificial intelligence methods, can be realized in smart grid applications.","PeriodicalId":403426,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Istanbul Smart Grid Congress and Fair (ICSG)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115322407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-04-20DOI: 10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492418
A. Karabiber, Cemal Keleş, A. Kaygusuz, B. Alagoz, Murat Akcin
Smart grid is a developing field for energy researchers. It offers technological improvements to have more controllable, reliable and sustainable power grids. Especially, the decreasing trend of fuels has pressurized to pay researchers' attention to renewable energy sources such as solar systems and wind turbines. The renewable energy sources generate electric power in different characteristics. Therefore, power converters are needed to integrate these sources in a grid to provide power flows among the sources and loads. This study presents Matlab/Simulink models of power converters and dynamic load structure, which are useful for smart grid simulations. These simulations can be used for research and educational purposes. Characteristic parameters of the models are suitable for existing devices. For power converters, Pulse-width Modulation technique is utilized that it is widely used in industry. The designed power converters and dynamic load models are tested in a microgrid application. The simulation results show that the designed power components are useful for smart grid simulation studies.
{"title":"Power converters modeling in Matlab/Simulink for microgrid simulations","authors":"A. Karabiber, Cemal Keleş, A. Kaygusuz, B. Alagoz, Murat Akcin","doi":"10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492418","url":null,"abstract":"Smart grid is a developing field for energy researchers. It offers technological improvements to have more controllable, reliable and sustainable power grids. Especially, the decreasing trend of fuels has pressurized to pay researchers' attention to renewable energy sources such as solar systems and wind turbines. The renewable energy sources generate electric power in different characteristics. Therefore, power converters are needed to integrate these sources in a grid to provide power flows among the sources and loads. This study presents Matlab/Simulink models of power converters and dynamic load structure, which are useful for smart grid simulations. These simulations can be used for research and educational purposes. Characteristic parameters of the models are suitable for existing devices. For power converters, Pulse-width Modulation technique is utilized that it is widely used in industry. The designed power converters and dynamic load models are tested in a microgrid application. The simulation results show that the designed power components are useful for smart grid simulation studies.","PeriodicalId":403426,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Istanbul Smart Grid Congress and Fair (ICSG)","volume":"362 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115938708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-04-20DOI: 10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492415
Murat Silsüpür, B. Türkay
Due to the integration of different kind of distributed resources and loads with nonlinear characteristics, the quality of electric power in smart grids needs to be monitored well. In addition to power quality disturbances like sag-swell, harmonics, and inter-harmonics, flicker is one of the critical power quality phenomenon seen nowadays. For flicker measurement, a flicker meter is defined in the IEC 61000-4-15. This meter has only a voltage signal input and it is not enough to interpret the contribution of the load and remaining power systems separately. So, further analyses are required for flicker evaluation. In this paper, new approaches for flicker evaluation are proposed using signal processing techniques and information theory. The real measurements taken by an iron and steel factory are processed using above mentioned techniques to evaluate flicker characteristics. The results prove that the application of information theory in smart grid measurements provides valuable information.
{"title":"Application of information theory in smart grid measurements","authors":"Murat Silsüpür, B. Türkay","doi":"10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492415","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the integration of different kind of distributed resources and loads with nonlinear characteristics, the quality of electric power in smart grids needs to be monitored well. In addition to power quality disturbances like sag-swell, harmonics, and inter-harmonics, flicker is one of the critical power quality phenomenon seen nowadays. For flicker measurement, a flicker meter is defined in the IEC 61000-4-15. This meter has only a voltage signal input and it is not enough to interpret the contribution of the load and remaining power systems separately. So, further analyses are required for flicker evaluation. In this paper, new approaches for flicker evaluation are proposed using signal processing techniques and information theory. The real measurements taken by an iron and steel factory are processed using above mentioned techniques to evaluate flicker characteristics. The results prove that the application of information theory in smart grid measurements provides valuable information.","PeriodicalId":403426,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Istanbul Smart Grid Congress and Fair (ICSG)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124896344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-04-20DOI: 10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492443
Umit Dogay
Distinguised "Smart Grids" Friends; Welcome to 4th International Istanbul Smart Grid and Cities Congress and Fair. Our rapidly developing country needs uniterrupted and cheap energy in order to maintain its successful growth that it achieved in the last 13 years. Keeping the balance between supply and demand in the minimum level will provide both energy saving and decrease foreign-source dependency and more rapid growth of our country.
{"title":"The message from ICSG Istanbul 2016 Congress President","authors":"Umit Dogay","doi":"10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492443","url":null,"abstract":"Distinguised \"Smart Grids\" Friends; Welcome to 4th International Istanbul Smart Grid and Cities Congress and Fair. Our rapidly developing country needs uniterrupted and cheap energy in order to maintain its successful growth that it achieved in the last 13 years. Keeping the balance between supply and demand in the minimum level will provide both energy saving and decrease foreign-source dependency and more rapid growth of our country.","PeriodicalId":403426,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Istanbul Smart Grid Congress and Fair (ICSG)","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124703988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-04-20DOI: 10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492428
Homay Danaei Mehr, Hüseyin Polat, Aydın Çetin
Recognition and detection of human activity is one of the challenges in smart home technologies. In this paper, three algorithms of artificial neural networks, namely Quick Propagation (QP), Levenberg Marquardt (LM) and Batch Back Propagation (BBP), have been used for human activity recognition and compared according to performance on Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) smart home dataset. The achieved results demonstrated that Levenberg Marquardt algorithm has better human activity recognition performance (by 92.81% accuracy) than Quick Propagation and Batch Back Propagation algorithms.
识别和检测人类活动是智能家居技术面临的挑战之一。本文将快速传播(QP)、Levenberg Marquardt (LM)和批处理反向传播(BBP)三种人工神经网络算法用于人类活动识别,并根据麻省理工学院(MIT)智能家居数据集的性能进行了比较。结果表明,Levenberg Marquardt算法比Quick Propagation和Batch Back Propagation算法具有更好的人体活动识别性能(准确率为92.81%)。
{"title":"Resident activity recognition in smart homes by using artificial neural networks","authors":"Homay Danaei Mehr, Hüseyin Polat, Aydın Çetin","doi":"10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492428","url":null,"abstract":"Recognition and detection of human activity is one of the challenges in smart home technologies. In this paper, three algorithms of artificial neural networks, namely Quick Propagation (QP), Levenberg Marquardt (LM) and Batch Back Propagation (BBP), have been used for human activity recognition and compared according to performance on Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) smart home dataset. The achieved results demonstrated that Levenberg Marquardt algorithm has better human activity recognition performance (by 92.81% accuracy) than Quick Propagation and Batch Back Propagation algorithms.","PeriodicalId":403426,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Istanbul Smart Grid Congress and Fair (ICSG)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127683733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-04-20DOI: 10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492417
B. Alagoz, Cemal Keleş, A. Kaygusuz, Murat Akcin
Due to increasing intermittent renewable energy utilization in smart grids, smart management of energy balance is becoming major concern of research studies. In the case of highly volatile generation and demand conditions, it is very important to estimate instant energy balance state of electricity grid to preserve energy balance automatically and avoid from the cases of generation deficiency and overloading. The utility frequency deviation is commonly used to restore power imbalance in AC grids. This study gives a discussion on the utilization of frequency deviation of AC power system as an indicator of energy balance state in smart grids. We consider two approaches to estimate instant AC frequency deviation of power systems under serious harmonic and noise conditions. The first one is based on frequency to amplitude conversion technique, which use band-pass ramp filtering of AC signal. The other method is based on the sinusoidal to pulse waveform conversion, and it uses measurement of pulse periods of the resulting square waveforms. We compare these two methods and discuss their advantages and disadvantages to generate a balance error signal for smart grid applications. A brief discussion on application of these signals for smart grid energy management is given.
{"title":"Frequency deviation indicators for estimation of energy balance state in smart AC grids","authors":"B. Alagoz, Cemal Keleş, A. Kaygusuz, Murat Akcin","doi":"10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492417","url":null,"abstract":"Due to increasing intermittent renewable energy utilization in smart grids, smart management of energy balance is becoming major concern of research studies. In the case of highly volatile generation and demand conditions, it is very important to estimate instant energy balance state of electricity grid to preserve energy balance automatically and avoid from the cases of generation deficiency and overloading. The utility frequency deviation is commonly used to restore power imbalance in AC grids. This study gives a discussion on the utilization of frequency deviation of AC power system as an indicator of energy balance state in smart grids. We consider two approaches to estimate instant AC frequency deviation of power systems under serious harmonic and noise conditions. The first one is based on frequency to amplitude conversion technique, which use band-pass ramp filtering of AC signal. The other method is based on the sinusoidal to pulse waveform conversion, and it uses measurement of pulse periods of the resulting square waveforms. We compare these two methods and discuss their advantages and disadvantages to generate a balance error signal for smart grid applications. A brief discussion on application of these signals for smart grid energy management is given.","PeriodicalId":403426,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Istanbul Smart Grid Congress and Fair (ICSG)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123308167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-04-20DOI: 10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492429
Ilker Özçelik, R. Brooks
Computers and Internet have evolved into necessary tools for our professional, personal and social lives. As a result of growing dependence, the availability of these systems has become a concern. This concern increases exponentially when considering systems such as smart power grids and public utility services. Therefore, research should be conducted to develop effective ways of detecting system anomalies. Denial of Service attacks are an important problem for the communication systems. Researchers proposed many DDoS detection approaches. In this study, we propose a novel DDoS detection approach: Cusum - Entropy. Our approach performs additional signal processing on the entropy of the packet header field to improve detection efficiency. We tested our approach using operational network traffic and performing DDoS attacks without jeopardizing the operation network. Our results showed that our approach gives high detection and low false positive rates and outperforms the detection approach using the entropy of packet header field.
{"title":"Cusum - entropy: an efficient method for DDoS attack detection","authors":"Ilker Özçelik, R. Brooks","doi":"10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492429","url":null,"abstract":"Computers and Internet have evolved into necessary tools for our professional, personal and social lives. As a result of growing dependence, the availability of these systems has become a concern. This concern increases exponentially when considering systems such as smart power grids and public utility services. Therefore, research should be conducted to develop effective ways of detecting system anomalies. Denial of Service attacks are an important problem for the communication systems. Researchers proposed many DDoS detection approaches. In this study, we propose a novel DDoS detection approach: Cusum - Entropy. Our approach performs additional signal processing on the entropy of the packet header field to improve detection efficiency. We tested our approach using operational network traffic and performing DDoS attacks without jeopardizing the operation network. Our results showed that our approach gives high detection and low false positive rates and outperforms the detection approach using the entropy of packet header field.","PeriodicalId":403426,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Istanbul Smart Grid Congress and Fair (ICSG)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123930834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-04-20DOI: 10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492440
Eren Baharozu, Gurkan Soykan
In the recent years, importance of supplying uninterruptable and efficient power has been increasing with the usage of technological devices. To provide such a power supply, main electrical grid failures should be prevented. Smart microgrid concept is one of the best alternatives for it. In this study, suitability of a small-scale smart micro-grid was investigated concerned economic and environmental aspects by comparing various case scenarios. As an implementation of smart microgrid, a university load profile was chosen. Its location is assumed as Izmir, in Turkey for realistic approach. Different case scenarios were simulated by using Homer Software in terms of economic and environmental aspects. According to simulation results, it is seen that smart micro-grid implementation in Turkey is beneficial with regards to both economic and environmental view.
{"title":"Economic and environmental evaluation of a designed smart micro-grid system in Turkey","authors":"Eren Baharozu, Gurkan Soykan","doi":"10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492440","url":null,"abstract":"In the recent years, importance of supplying uninterruptable and efficient power has been increasing with the usage of technological devices. To provide such a power supply, main electrical grid failures should be prevented. Smart microgrid concept is one of the best alternatives for it. In this study, suitability of a small-scale smart micro-grid was investigated concerned economic and environmental aspects by comparing various case scenarios. As an implementation of smart microgrid, a university load profile was chosen. Its location is assumed as Izmir, in Turkey for realistic approach. Different case scenarios were simulated by using Homer Software in terms of economic and environmental aspects. According to simulation results, it is seen that smart micro-grid implementation in Turkey is beneficial with regards to both economic and environmental view.","PeriodicalId":403426,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Istanbul Smart Grid Congress and Fair (ICSG)","volume":"36 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121921767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-04-20DOI: 10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492426
H. Kahraman, M. K. Dosoglu, U. Guvenc, S. Duman, Yusuf Sonmez
In this study, the Symbiotic Organisms Search (SOS) algorithm is proposed to solve the short-term hydrothermal generation scheduling (STHGS) problem. This problem aims to optimize the power generation strategy produced by hydroelectric and thermal plants by minimizing the total fuel cost function while satisfying some operational constraints. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the SOS, it has been tested on a system having a hydro plant with four-cascaded reservoir and a thermal plant. Results have been compared other metaheuristic methods. Results obtained from the experiment show that the proposed algorithm produces better results than the other methods and shows a good convergence.
{"title":"Optimal scheduling of short-term hydrothermal generation using symbiotic organisms search algorithm","authors":"H. Kahraman, M. K. Dosoglu, U. Guvenc, S. Duman, Yusuf Sonmez","doi":"10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SGCF.2016.7492426","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, the Symbiotic Organisms Search (SOS) algorithm is proposed to solve the short-term hydrothermal generation scheduling (STHGS) problem. This problem aims to optimize the power generation strategy produced by hydroelectric and thermal plants by minimizing the total fuel cost function while satisfying some operational constraints. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the SOS, it has been tested on a system having a hydro plant with four-cascaded reservoir and a thermal plant. Results have been compared other metaheuristic methods. Results obtained from the experiment show that the proposed algorithm produces better results than the other methods and shows a good convergence.","PeriodicalId":403426,"journal":{"name":"2016 4th International Istanbul Smart Grid Congress and Fair (ICSG)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114685372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}