STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS & THEIR APPLICATIONS IN POWER SYSTEMS

This paper provides a brief discussion about Stochastic Algorithms. We treat two groups of Stochastic Algorithms including: 1- Evolutionary Algorithm 2- Genetic Algorithm It's very important to optimize parameters of a system model in any scientific field (Power,Control , ...) and therefore different methods have been developed for these purposes. Parameter estimation is one of the most powerful applications of Stochastic Algorithms that we discuss here using few examples.