As Distribution Systems are growing large and being stretched too far, electric utilities and end users of electric power are becoming increasingly concerned about meeting the growing electric demand. Hence efforts have been made by electric utilities to reduce the losses in the distribution system. In this dissertation work, Network Reconfiguration and Optimal Distributed Generation placement ...

One of the most important methods in loss reduction and controlling the voltages of distribution systems is the utilization of the fixed and switched capacitors. To do this, real modeling of the system in large scale unbalanced or balanced for both radial and meshed configurations are required. In this paper, a new technique for finding the optimal values of the fixed and switched capacitors in...

Scaling properties of neural networks, that are the relations between the number of hidden units and the training or generalization error, recently have been investigated theoretically with encouraging results. In our paper we investigate experimentally, whether the theoretic results may be expected in practical applications. We investigate different neural network structures with varying numbe...