Mohamed E. El-Hawary, PhD is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Dalhousie University. He is also the editor for the IEEE Press Power Engineering Series. His contributions to electrical engineering research, education, and industry cover more than forty years. His pioneering work in the economic operation of power systems and the application of computational intelligence techniques to power system operational problems has been cited in numerous textbooks and research monographs and more than 300 research articles. He has published multiple books with Wiley, including Principles of Electric Machines with Power Electronic Applications, 2nd Edition, and Introduction to Electrical Power Systems.

• Preface and Acknowledgments viiContributors ix1. Introduction 1Mohamed E. El-Hawary2. Univariate Methods for Short-Term Load Forecasting 17James W. Taylor and Patrick E. McSharry3. Application of the Weighted Nearest Neighbor Method to Power System Forecasting Problems 41Antonio Gómez-Expósito, Alicia Troncoso, Jesús M. Riquelme-Santos, Catalina Gómez-Quiles, José L.Martínez-Ramos, and José C. Riquelme4. Electricity Prices as a Stochastic Process 89Yunhe Hou, Chen-Ching Liu, and Harold Salazar5. Short-Term Forecasting of Electricity Prices Using Mixed Models 153Carolina García-Martos, Julio Rodríguez, and María Jesús Sánchez6. Electricity Price Forecasting Using Neural Networks and Similar Days 215Paras Mandal, Anurag K. Srivastava, Tomonobu Senjyu, and Michael Negnevitsky7. Estimation of Post-Storm Restoration Times for Electric Power Distribution Systems 251Rachel A. Davidson, Haibin Liu, and Tatiyana V. Apanasovich8. A Nonparametric Approach for River Flow Forecasting Based on Autonomous Neural Network Models 285Vitor Hugo Ferreira and Alexandre P. Alves da SilvaIndex 297

Mohamed E. El-Hawary, PhD is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Dalhousie University. He is also the editor for the IEEE Press Power Engineering Series. His contributions to electrical engineering research, education, and industry cover more than forty years. His pioneering work in the economic operation of power systems and the application of computational intelligence techniques to power system operational problems has been cited in numerous textbooks and research monographs and more than 300 research articles. He has published multiple books with Wiley, including Principles of Electric Machines with Power Electronic Applications, 2nd Edition, and Introduction to Electrical Power Systems.

• Preface and Acknowledgments viiContributors ix1. Introduction 1Mohamed E. El-Hawary2. Univariate Methods for Short-Term Load Forecasting 17James W. Taylor and Patrick E. McSharry3. Application of the Weighted Nearest Neighbor Method to Power System Forecasting Problems 41Antonio Gómez-Expósito, Alicia Troncoso, Jesús M. Riquelme-Santos, Catalina Gómez-Quiles, José L.Martínez-Ramos, and José C. Riquelme4. Electricity Prices as a Stochastic Process 89Yunhe Hou, Chen-Ching Liu, and Harold Salazar5. Short-Term Forecasting of Electricity Prices Using Mixed Models 153Carolina García-Martos, Julio Rodríguez, and María Jesús Sánchez6. Electricity Price Forecasting Using Neural Networks and Similar Days 215Paras Mandal, Anurag K. Srivastava, Tomonobu Senjyu, and Michael Negnevitsky7. Estimation of Post-Storm Restoration Times for Electric Power Distribution Systems 251Rachel A. Davidson, Haibin Liu, and Tatiyana V. Apanasovich8. A Nonparametric Approach for River Flow Forecasting Based on Autonomous Neural Network Models 285Vitor Hugo Ferreira and Alexandre P. Alves da SilvaIndex 297

Mohamed E. El-Hawary, PhD is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Dalhousie University. He is also the editor for the IEEE Press Power Engineering Series. His contributions to electrical engineering research, education, and industry cover more than forty years. His pioneering work in the economic operation of power systems and the application of computational intelligence techniques to power system operational problems has been cited in numerous textbooks and research monographs and more than 300 research articles. He has published multiple books with Wiley, including Principles of Electric Machines with Power Electronic Applications, 2nd Edition, and Introduction to Electrical Power Systems.

• Preface and Acknowledgments viiContributors ix1. Introduction 1Mohamed E. El-Hawary2. Univariate Methods for Short-Term Load Forecasting 17James W. Taylor and Patrick E. McSharry3. Application of the Weighted Nearest Neighbor Method to Power System Forecasting Problems 41Antonio Gómez-Expósito, Alicia Troncoso, Jesús M. Riquelme-Santos, Catalina Gómez-Quiles, José L.Martínez-Ramos, and José C. Riquelme4. Electricity Prices as a Stochastic Process 89Yunhe Hou, Chen-Ching Liu, and Harold Salazar5. Short-Term Forecasting of Electricity Prices Using Mixed Models 153Carolina García-Martos, Julio Rodríguez, and María Jesús Sánchez6. Electricity Price Forecasting Using Neural Networks and Similar Days 215Paras Mandal, Anurag K. Srivastava, Tomonobu Senjyu, and Michael Negnevitsky7. Estimation of Post-Storm Restoration Times for Electric Power Distribution Systems 251Rachel A. Davidson, Haibin Liu, and Tatiyana V. Apanasovich8. A Nonparametric Approach for River Flow Forecasting Based on Autonomous Neural Network Models 285Vitor Hugo Ferreira and Alexandre P. Alves da SilvaIndex 297