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Papers by Massoud Amin
B ecause critical infrastructures touch us all, the growing potential for infrastructure problems... more B ecause critical infrastructures touch us all, the growing potential for infrastructure problems stems from multiple sources, including system complexity, economic growth, deregulation, terrorism, and even the weather. Electric power systems constitute the fundamental infrastructure of modern society. A successful terrorist attempt to disrupt electricity supplies could have devastating effects on national security, the economy, and every citizen’s life. Yet power systems have widely dispersed assets that can never be absolutely defended against a determined attack. Indeed, because of the intimate connections between power systems and society’s other infrastructures, we need to consider three different kinds of threats:
In this 21 st century, electric power engineering goes green and smart. Triggered by several rece... more In this 21 st century, electric power engineering goes green and smart. Triggered by several recent catastrophes such as the major blackout in the Northeastern USA in 2003 and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 together with the Energy Act of 2007, the term smart grid has become almost ubiquitous across the world not only as a political concept but also as an entirely new technology that requires tremendous amount of inter-disciplinary research. As a part of this enterprise, for example, power engineers are investigating efficient and intelligent ways of energy distribution and load management, computer scientists are researching cyber-security issues for reliable communication of information across the grid, the signals community is looking into advancing instrumentation facilities for detailed grid monitoring, wind engineers are studying renewable energy integration while business administrators are reframing power system market policies to adapt to these new changes in the ...
IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, 2005
I was asked to write the chapter on “Societal Pains ” caused by outages and major power quality d... more I was asked to write the chapter on “Societal Pains ” caused by outages and major power quality disruptions and their impact on our society. Indeed our national security and digital economy place increased demand for reliable and disturbance-free electricity. The massive power outages in the
Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management
How to manage or control a heterogeneous, widely dispersed, yet globally interconnected system is... more How to manage or control a heterogeneous, widely dispersed, yet globally interconnected system is a serious technological problem in any case. It is even more complex and difficult to control it for optimal efficiency and maximum benefit to the ultimate consumers while still allowing all its business components to compete fairly and freely. This paper briefly describes our on-going work
Mechanical Engineering
This article emphasizes the need to update Ukraine’s end-to-end electric power grid to provide se... more This article emphasizes the need to update Ukraine’s end-to-end electric power grid to provide secure, resilient, and reliable electricity for the future. More than any other publicized attack, the Ukrainian attack demonstrated the sophistication of today’s hackers and the malware they now wield. Despite the risks, policymakers nationwide are pushing for clean and reliable electricity. Grid managers count on either in-house meteorologists or third-party vendors to determine the most accurate weather forecast. A self-healing smart grid needs to be supported by secure sensing and communication networks, it needs built-in computational technologies, and it has to be controllable in real time. In order to protect the electrical system from both cyber and physical attacks, each of its components could in theory be replaced or retrofitted. The expert suggests that the sensing and communication technology on far-flung grid elements would give command-and-control centers better situational ...
IT Professional
A gents are no strangers to the electronic marketplace. Indeed, the Internet version of an agent,... more A gents are no strangers to the electronic marketplace. Indeed, the Internet version of an agent, the omnipresent "bot," may be one reason IDC expects e-commerce to top $1 trillion by 2003. Most agent applications are fairly straightforward: access a Web site, fetch material-in short, perform a simple fixed mission. Others do more personalized tasks such as filtering e-mail or updating legacy systems. From a programming viewpoint, agents are simply active objects that have been defined to simulate parts of a model.Agent-based modeling and simulation then become a natural extension of the object-oriented paradigm. Simulations of events that involve these kinds of agents (known as actors or demons) have assisted human decision making for decades in batch manufacturing, transportation, and logistics, for example. But work in complex adaptive systems (CAS) may be defining a new kind of agent-one that can actually evolve over time in response to its environment. This is no small undertaking. Each agent changes in a way that adapts to its environment-even while its environment is itself changing because of external forces and changes in other agents. This puts a new spin on the agent community, or agency.Agents live much the way that the human population does, finding ways to
Ieee Power Energy Mag, 2008
... Smart Grid A Vision for the Future-A Network of Integrated Microgrids That Can Monitor and He... more ... Smart Grid A Vision for the Future-A Network of Integrated Microgrids That Can Monitor and Heal Itself. Can Shut Off in Response to Frequency Fluctuations Use Can Be Shifted to Off-Peak Times to Save Money ... Solar Panels Smart Appliances Demand Management ...
Automation Control and Complexity, Aug 1, 2000
Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Aug 15, 2002
2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2015
B ecause critical infrastructures touch us all, the growing potential for infrastructure problems... more B ecause critical infrastructures touch us all, the growing potential for infrastructure problems stems from multiple sources, including system complexity, economic growth, deregulation, terrorism, and even the weather. Electric power systems constitute the fundamental infrastructure of modern society. A successful terrorist attempt to disrupt electricity supplies could have devastating effects on national security, the economy, and every citizen’s life. Yet power systems have widely dispersed assets that can never be absolutely defended against a determined attack. Indeed, because of the intimate connections between power systems and society’s other infrastructures, we need to consider three different kinds of threats:
In this 21 st century, electric power engineering goes green and smart. Triggered by several rece... more In this 21 st century, electric power engineering goes green and smart. Triggered by several recent catastrophes such as the major blackout in the Northeastern USA in 2003 and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 together with the Energy Act of 2007, the term smart grid has become almost ubiquitous across the world not only as a political concept but also as an entirely new technology that requires tremendous amount of inter-disciplinary research. As a part of this enterprise, for example, power engineers are investigating efficient and intelligent ways of energy distribution and load management, computer scientists are researching cyber-security issues for reliable communication of information across the grid, the signals community is looking into advancing instrumentation facilities for detailed grid monitoring, wind engineers are studying renewable energy integration while business administrators are reframing power system market policies to adapt to these new changes in the ...
IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, 2005
I was asked to write the chapter on “Societal Pains ” caused by outages and major power quality d... more I was asked to write the chapter on “Societal Pains ” caused by outages and major power quality disruptions and their impact on our society. Indeed our national security and digital economy place increased demand for reliable and disturbance-free electricity. The massive power outages in the
Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management
How to manage or control a heterogeneous, widely dispersed, yet globally interconnected system is... more How to manage or control a heterogeneous, widely dispersed, yet globally interconnected system is a serious technological problem in any case. It is even more complex and difficult to control it for optimal efficiency and maximum benefit to the ultimate consumers while still allowing all its business components to compete fairly and freely. This paper briefly describes our on-going work
Mechanical Engineering
This article emphasizes the need to update Ukraine’s end-to-end electric power grid to provide se... more This article emphasizes the need to update Ukraine’s end-to-end electric power grid to provide secure, resilient, and reliable electricity for the future. More than any other publicized attack, the Ukrainian attack demonstrated the sophistication of today’s hackers and the malware they now wield. Despite the risks, policymakers nationwide are pushing for clean and reliable electricity. Grid managers count on either in-house meteorologists or third-party vendors to determine the most accurate weather forecast. A self-healing smart grid needs to be supported by secure sensing and communication networks, it needs built-in computational technologies, and it has to be controllable in real time. In order to protect the electrical system from both cyber and physical attacks, each of its components could in theory be replaced or retrofitted. The expert suggests that the sensing and communication technology on far-flung grid elements would give command-and-control centers better situational ...
IT Professional
A gents are no strangers to the electronic marketplace. Indeed, the Internet version of an agent,... more A gents are no strangers to the electronic marketplace. Indeed, the Internet version of an agent, the omnipresent "bot," may be one reason IDC expects e-commerce to top $1 trillion by 2003. Most agent applications are fairly straightforward: access a Web site, fetch material-in short, perform a simple fixed mission. Others do more personalized tasks such as filtering e-mail or updating legacy systems. From a programming viewpoint, agents are simply active objects that have been defined to simulate parts of a model.Agent-based modeling and simulation then become a natural extension of the object-oriented paradigm. Simulations of events that involve these kinds of agents (known as actors or demons) have assisted human decision making for decades in batch manufacturing, transportation, and logistics, for example. But work in complex adaptive systems (CAS) may be defining a new kind of agent-one that can actually evolve over time in response to its environment. This is no small undertaking. Each agent changes in a way that adapts to its environment-even while its environment is itself changing because of external forces and changes in other agents. This puts a new spin on the agent community, or agency.Agents live much the way that the human population does, finding ways to
Ieee Power Energy Mag, 2008
... Smart Grid A Vision for the Future-A Network of Integrated Microgrids That Can Monitor and He... more ... Smart Grid A Vision for the Future-A Network of Integrated Microgrids That Can Monitor and Heal Itself. Can Shut Off in Response to Frequency Fluctuations Use Can Be Shifted to Off-Peak Times to Save Money ... Solar Panels Smart Appliances Demand Management ...
Automation Control and Complexity, Aug 1, 2000
Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Aug 15, 2002
2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2015