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Title: Challenge Online Time Series Clustering For Demand Response A Theory to Break the ‘Curse of Dimensionality'

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OSTI ID:1332344

The advent of smart meters and advanced communication infrastructures catalyzes numerous smart grid applications such as dynamic demand response, and paves the way to solve challenging research problems in sustainable energy consumption. The space of solution possibilities are restricted primarily by the huge amount of generated data requiring considerable computational resources and efficient algorithms. To overcome this Big Data challenge, data clustering techniques have been proposed. Current approaches however do not scale in the face of the “increasing dimensionality” problem where a cluster point is represented by the entire customer consumption time series. To overcome this aspect we first rethink the way cluster points are created and designed, and then design an efficient online clustering technique for demand response (DR) in order to analyze high volume, high dimensional energy consumption time series data at scale, and on the fly. Our online algorithm is randomized in nature, and provides optimal performance guarantees in a computationally efficient manner. Unlike prior work we (i) study the consumption properties of the whole population simultaneously rather than developing individual models for each customer separately, claiming it to be a ‘killer’ approach that breaks the “curse of dimensionality” in online time series clustering, and (ii) provide tight performance guarantees in theory to validate our approach. Our insights are driven by the field of sociology, where collective behavior often emerges as the result of individual patterns and lifestyles.

Research Organization:
City of Los Angeles Department, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)
DOE Contract Number:
OE0000192
OSTI ID:
1332344
Report Number(s):
DOE-USC-00192-69
Resource Relation:
Conference: ACM e-Energy , Bangalore (India), 15-17 Jul 2015
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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