After occurrence of some disturbances in power system that causes the sever imbalance between generation power and electrical load, the power system frequency begins to decrease. To prevent power system frequency instability and stop the frequency decay below the power system allowable frequency limitation, load shedding schemes should be utilized by applying under frequency load shedding relay...

In recent years several catastrophic power systems blackouts have occurred worldwide. Various reasons have been declared for these failures. Economical limitations due to power system restructuring restrictions, inadvertent operation of protective relays and inefficient design of conventional load shedding schemes are of the most important reasons causing these blackouts. In fact, due to both e...

Systems for processing continuous monitoring queries over data streams must be adaptive because data streams are often bursty and data characteristics may vary over time. In this chapter, we focus on one particular type of adaptivity: the ability to gracefully degrade performance via "load shedding" (dropping unprocessed tuples to reduce system load) when the demands placed on the system cannot...

Reduction of maximum demand With the rising cost of electricity, there are large incentives There are three main ways in which maximum demand can to reduce the maximum demand charges incurred at a sugar be reduced; mill. The advantages of good maximum demand control, the power factor correction, control Strategy used to implement Such a system and a dedistributing loads more evenly, scription o...

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Moving object environments are characterized by large numbers of objects continuously sending location updates. At times, data arrival rates may spike up, causing the load on the system to exceed its capacity. This may result in increased output latencies, potentially leading to invalid or obsolete answers. Dropping data randomly, the most frequently used approach in the literature for load she...