COOPERATIVE COEVOLUTIONARY APPROACH AND ITS PROMISING APPLICATIONS IN POWER SYSTEM

摘要

Cooperative Coevolutionary Approach (CCA) is a new architecture of evolutionary computation. CCA simulates the coevolutionary mechanism in nature and adopts the notion of ecosystem. Multiple species in the ecosystem coevolve and interact with each other and result in the continuous evolution of the ecosystem. The application domain problem is mapped into the evolving ecosystem and solved when the coevolutionary process ends. Evolutionary game theory can be used to model CCA and to analyze its dynamical behaviors. CCA has been successfully applied to a wide variety of practical problems. The paper surveys the origin and development of CCA; introduces the basic theories of CCA and discusses the potential applications in power system and power market. CCA is a brand new research direction and has great potentials in solving increasingly complex problems emerging in power system and power market, such as power system optimal planning and operation, power market auction design and bidding strategy optimization etc.