Power system infrastructure (Power electronics & power systems)

This book is a compilation of work from Europe and the United States that covers many important topics. One full section is devoted to the modeling of interdependencies in critical infrastructures, which is a new area of research for academia and national security agencies. It also includes a section on the security assessment of critical infrastructures, another on the effect of natural disasters on critical infrastructures, as well as other multi-area research topics.

Critical Infrastructure Interdependency Modeling: A Survey of US Research.- An Approach to Modeling and Mitigating Infrastructure Interdependencies.- Vulnerability of Networked Infrastructures: Anomalies, Errors, and Interdependencies.- Modeling of Infrastructure Interdependencies.- Computational Complexity of Analyzing the Dynamic Reliability of Interdependent Infrastructures.- A Generic Architecture of the Networked Critical Infrastructure System: GANetCI.- Excercising a Novel Quantitative Approach on CIP: VITA- Vital Infrastructure Threats and Assurance.- A Case of Sensor Network for a Secure Electric Energy Infrastructure.- Anomaly Detection Approach to Safeguard Critical Infrastructures: A Knowledge Engineering Process on a SCADA Case Study.- Security Assessment of Electrical Infrastructures Under Terrorism.- An Approach to Statistical Estimation of Cascading Failure Propagation in Blackouts.- Structural Analysis of Electrical Power Networks.- Power Grid Stability in Small World Perspective.- Phasor Measurement Systems in the Western Grid.- Wide-Area Situational Awareness of Power Grids with Limited Phasor Measurements.- Wide Area Monitoring System of IPS\UPS: Application for Digital Model Validation.- State Estimation (SE) Using Wide Area Information Sharing (WAIS) and Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs).- Analysis of Contingencies with Phasor Measurement Units: Causes and Effects in Power Systems and their Components, CFE Mexico.- Real-Time Identification of Inter-Area Oscillating Models in Power Systems.- Study of WAMS Based Backup Protection.- Intelligent Blackout Prediction Using Synchronized Phasor Measurement: Simulation Case Study.- Solutions for Voltage Stability Monitoring and Control.- Impact Analysis of Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies During the 2004 Hurricane Season in Florida.- An Overview of Electric Power Delivery System Damage for Hurricanes Rita and Katrina.- On Transmission Restoration Evaluation After Ice Storms Using Monte Carlo Techniques.- Ex-Post Analysis of Authority Response to Two Torrential Rain Flooding Situations in Finland: A Case for Prioritization.- The Storm Gudrun A Seven-Week Power Outage in Sweden.- An Experiment Driven Approach Towards Dependable and Sustainable Future Energy Systems.- Identification of Sources of Failures and Their Propagation in Critical Infrastructures from 12 Years Public Failure Reports.- Threats to Electric Power Grid Security Through Hacking of Networked Generation Control.- Toward Unified Concepts for Critical Information Systems.- The CAPS-SNL Power System Security Test Bed.- Optimal Substation Location adn Network Routing Using Generic Algorithm.- Preventing Buffer Overflows by Dynamic Environment Hardening.- Flexible Electric Infrastructures for Advanced Distribution Automation.- Security Improvement in Critical Infrastructures Using Fuel Cell Back Up Power Systems.- Intelligent Distribution Grid Solution to Facilitate Expanded Use of Dispersed Generation Potential in Critical Situations.- Fast Transient Stability Analysis of Distribution Networks to Keep Distributed Generation Online.- A New Fault Location Algorithm for Distribution Feeders Considering Different POwer Injection of Distributed Generators.- High Impedance Fault Detection and Location in Unbalenced Distribution Feeders with Distributed Generation Using Artificial Neural Networks.