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Events & Activities
A Special Issue of the Control Systems Magazine on power systems will appear in August 2000. Contributed papers and invited sessions from control and power systems communities were solicited for the CDC'99, held in Phoenix, AZ. Several papers were presented and a workshop entitled Complex Interactive Networks and Systems was held on December 5, 1999 during the CDC in Phoenix. The tutorial was well attended and it included description of
complexity of interactive infrastructures, discussion of general issues of faults and failures within large distributed networked systems, prescriptive approaches to identification and prevention of cascading network failures, and mechanisms for hidden failures and how they contribute to the catastrophic events in power systems.
A vision of an advanced information, computation and control system for defense against the catastrophic events will be presented toward creation of infrastructures that are self-stabilizing and self-healing; for more information, see http://www.epri.com/targetST.asp?program=83. Among the areas of technical interest are:
- Modeling and control of energy generation and delivery systems and other interactive infrastructure networks
- All aspects of modeling, operation, and control of power plants and power systems, dynamic interactions of power plants and power systems
- Power plant dynamics and control
- Electrical power system operations
- Remote power systems
- Modeling and control of power markets
- Technical impact of deregulation on power system control, security monitoring, as well as analysis and control in deregulated power systems
- Power electronics and instruments, which enable new capabilities for sensing and control. Real time and fast simulation and dispatching
- Tools for enhanced system obervability, efficiency and reliability
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