Agents controlling the electric power infrastructure

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 96-109

  Rigole, T ^a   Vanthournout, K ^a   De Brabandere, K ^a   Deconinck, G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Research Group Electrical Energy and Computing Architectures

^c Department of Electrical Engineering ^*

Author keywords

Agent based control systems; Autonomous electricity networks; Critical infrastructure protection; Interdependencies; Microgrids

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

AGENT-BASED CONTROL SYSTEMS; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION; INTERDEPENDENCIES; MICROGRIDS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 37849020179     PISSN: 14753219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2008.016094     Document Type: Article

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