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SEARCH STRATEGIES FOR FAILURE CASCADE PATHS IN POWER SYSTEM GRAPHS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2005

Jianfeng Zhang ,
James A. Bucklew  and
Fernando L. Alvarado
Jianfeng Zhang
Affiliation:
Midwest ISO, Carmel, Indiana 46032, E-mail: jzhang@midwestiso.org
James A. Bucklew
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, E-mail: bucklew@engr.wisc.edu
Fernando L. Alvarado
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, E-mail: alvarado@engr.wisc.edu
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Abstract

This paper addresses computer simulation of cascading failures in electric power systems. The paper analyzes the convergence rates of estimator variance in importance sampling and in random search strategies. A uniform search strategy based on the Metropolis algorithm is proposed.

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Papers from the 8th International PMAPS Conference
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 507 - 517
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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