ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to characterize and to evaluate the emerging growth of data in communications network applied to Smart Grid scenario. It presents a review of big data optimization problems in electric power systems. It presents a review of big data optimization problems in electric power systems. The chapter discusses scientometric mapping methods that show the variety and diversity of large-scale optimization problems in today's power system networks. It reviews the communication devices used in critical infrastructure (CI), especially power systems, security methods available to vet the identity of devices, and general security threats in CI networks. The chapter also reviews the wide variety of techniques and applications developed for electricity theft detection. It discusses and presents a centralized approach to solve the unit commitment problem for energy systems that contain a variety of generating components. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
