“…The latency suffered by mathematical calculations makes them unfit for real time situational awareness applications. Machine-learning algorithms, such as, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) (Chih-Wen, Mu-chun, Shuenn-Shing, & Yi-Jen, 1999) and decision trees (DT) (Kai, Likhate, Vittal, Kolluri, & Mandal, 2007;Kamwa, Samantaray, & Joos, 2010;Nuqui, Phadke, Schulz, & Bhatt, 2001;Rovnyak, Kretsinger, Thorp, & Brown, 1994;Ruisheng, Vittal, & Logic, 2010), are being extensively studied for online prediction of power system stability based on phasor data in an actionable period of time. Conventional machine learning techniques such as ANN and DT are designed to work with a limited amount of available ''stored'' data samples.…”