State of the art and future of OSS for power systems

2009 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PES '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Milano, F ^a   Vanfretti, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Open source; Power system education; Simulation; Software

Indexed keywords

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; POWER SYSTEM ANALYSIS; POWER SYSTEM EDUCATION; POWER SYSTEMS; SIMULATION SOFTWARE; STATE OF THE ART; TASK FORCE;

OPEN SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77649288851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PES.2009.5275920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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