Controlling cascading failures with cooperative autonomous agents

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 192-220

  Hines, Paul ^a   Talukdar, Sarosh ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; Cascading failures; Electrical power networks

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CASCADING FAILURES; ELECTRICAL POWER NETWORKS; GLOBAL CONTROL PROBLEM; PREDICTIVE CONTROL AND COOPERATION;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS;

EID: 33847699635     PISSN: 14753219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2007.011551     Document Type: Article

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