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ESTIMATING FAILURE PROPAGATION IN MODELS OF CASCADING BLACKOUTS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2005
Abstract
We compare and test statistical estimates of failure propagation in data from versions of a probabilistic model of loading-dependent cascading failure and a power system blackout model of cascading transmission line overloads. The comparisons suggest mechanisms affecting failure propagation and are an initial step toward monitoring failure propagation from practical system data. Approximations to the probabilistic model describe the forms of probability distribution of cascade sizes.
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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. 475 - 488
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- © 2005 Cambridge University Press
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