- HICSS-37
- Complex Systems
Track
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- Chair:
Prof. Robert J.
Thomas
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School of Electrical
Engineering
- 428 Phillips Hall
- Cornell University
- Ithaca, NY 14853
- (607) 255-5083
(office)
- (607) 255-8871 (fax)
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- This track seeks
to explore methods at the frontier of understanding complex system
phenomena. Of special
interest is the use of the electric power systems as a context for this
exploration.
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- Security and
Reliability of Complex Systems
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- This mini-track
focuses on topics related to the ability of complex systems such as power
systems to survive disturbances with minimal impact on performance. Specific
topics include: Steady-State and Dynamic Security Assessment; Available
Transfer Capability (ATC); State Estimation; Security-Constrained Optimal
Power Flow; Sensor Applications; Large-Scale Real-Time Control; and related
technologies.
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- This minitrack will
consist of two sessions titled as follows:
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- 1)
Operations Software and Algorithms:
Session Chair: Peter W. Sauer
- 2)
New Technology Applications: Session
Chair: Mladen Kezunovic
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- Peter W. Sauer
(Primary Contact)
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Illinois
1406 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel: 217-333-0394
Fax: 217-333-1162
Email: sauer@ece.uiuc.edu
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- Market
Designs for Electric Systems
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- Structuring
efficient markets for electricity that facilitate both operating reliability
and needed system expansion is an evolving art, as evidenced by the sequence
of Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission proceedings that weigh standardization
with continued flexibility and improvements in market design.
Traditional analytic methods have been only partially successful in
fashioning improvements since system parameters routinely become choice
variables in the interplay between buyers, sellers, operators and market
overseers. Thus analytic, statistical, numerical and game-theoretic tools
all have relevance.
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- This minitrack will
consist of four sessions titled as follows:
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- 1)
The dynamic interface between markets and physical systems: Session
Chair: Fernando Alvarado
- 2)
Congestion and the design of efficient forward markets; Session
Chair: Timothy Mount
- 3)
Market power monitoring and mitigation: Session Chair: Richard Tabors
- 4)
Computational Models for Benchmarking and Ancillary Services: Session
Chair Shmuel Oren
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- Richard E. Schuler
(Primary Contact)
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607-255-7579
Fax: 607-255-2818
Email: res1@cornell.edu
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- Robust
and Resilient Critical Infrastructure Systems
- Critical
infrastructures such as transportation systems, communication networks,
electric power grids, and health delivery systems are highly networked and
interdependent systems. Nation’s security, and at a global level, our
economy rely heavily on protection and reliable operation of these
infrastructure systems. Such systems are usually characterized by complex
nonlinear behavior, dynamic topology, and experience uncertainty both in
their internal description and in the external environments/disturbances.
The overall goal of this minitrack is the development of models, analysis
tools, and simulation environments for the design of robust and resilient
infrastructure systems. While there are certain common themes that will run
through all the anticipated sessions under this minitrack (such as the
impact of interdependencies among some or all of these critical
infrastructures on failure modes), we plan to focus on the following three
interrelated topics.
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- 1)
Vulnerability
and Threat Analysis Session Chairs: William A. Wallace and John James
- 2)
Understanding
Low Probability/High Consequence Events: Session Chairs: David Newman and
Richard G. Little
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- Jagdish Chandra (Primary
Contact)
- Columbia
College of Arts and Science
- The
George Washington University
- 1776
G Street, NW
- Washington,
DC 20052
- Tel:
(202) 994-0179;
- Fax:
(202) 994-4606
- Email: jchandra@seas.gwu.edu