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Journal articles, et al.
In the pipeline
2019
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Helen Lo, Seth Blumsack, Paul Hines, and Sean Meyn,
Electricity rates for the zero marginal cost grid,
The Electricity Journal, vol. 32, pp. 39-43, 2019.
DOI 10.1016/j.tej.2019.02.010
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Sam Chevalier and Paul Hines,
Mitigating the Risk of Voltage Collapse using Statistical Measures from PMU Data
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 120 - 128, 2019.
[preprint]
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Tiffany Rounds, Josh Bongard, Paul Hines, and Jean Harvey,
A crowdsourcing approach to understand weight and weight loss in men
Preventive Medicine Reports, vol. 13, pp. 224–228, Mar 2019.
DOI 10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.12.004
2018
2017
- C.T.M. Clack, S.A. Qvist, J. Apt, S.J. Davis, V. Diakov, M. Handschy, P. Hines, P. Jaramillo, D.M. Kammen, M.G. Morgan, J.F. Whitacre, J. Sweeney, D.G. Victor, G.R. Tynan, J.C.S. Long, V. Sivaram, A. Brandt, J.P. Weyant, and K. Caldeira,
Evaluation of a proposal for reliable low-cost grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 114, no.26, June 27, 2017.
(Open access)
- D. Curtis Saunders, Jeffrey S. Marshall, Paul D. Hines,
The Effect of Time Scales on Wind Farm Power Variability with Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
Wind Energy, Online 29 June 2017.
- Paul Hines, Ian Dobson and Pooya Rezaei,
Cascading Power Outages Propagate Locally in an Influence Graph that is not the Actual Grid Topology,
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, no. 2, 2017. (Open access)
- Mert Korkali, Jason G. Veneman, James P. Bagrow, Brian F. Tivnan and Paul D.H. Hines,
Reducing Cascading Failure Risk by Increasing Infrastructure Network Interdependence,
Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 44499, 2017. (Open access)
- Saurav Acharya and Byung Suk Lee and Paul Hines,
Causal Prediction of Top-k Event Types Over Real-Time Event Streams,
The Computer Journal, 1-21, Feb. 2017.
[arxiv preprint].
2016
- IEEE Working Group on Understanding, Prediction, Mitigation and Restoration of Cascading Failures.
(Janusz Bialek, Emanuele Ciapessoni, Diego Cirio, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Chris Dent, Ian Dobson, Pierre Henneaux, Paul Hines, Jorge Jardim, Stephen Miller, Mathaios Panteli, Milorad Papic, Andrea Pitto, Jairo Quiros-Tortos, and Dee Wu)
Benchmarking and Validation of Cascading Failure Analysis Tools.
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 31, No. 6, 2016.
[Open access].
- Goodarz Ghanavati, Paul D. H. Hines, and Taras I. Lakoba,
Identifying Useful Statistical Indicators of Proximity to Instability in Stochastic Power Systems,
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 1360-1368.
[arxiv preprint].
- Jiajia Song, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Goodarz Ghanavati, Paul D. H. Hines,
Dynamic Modeling of Cascading Failure in Power Systems,
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 2085-2095.
[arXiv preprint].
2015
- Pooya Rezaei, Paul Hines and Margaret Eppstein,
Estimating Cascading Failure Risk with Random Chemistry,
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, no. 5, 2015.
[arXiv preprint].
- Jonathan Dowds, Paul Hines, Todd Ryan, William Buchanan, Elizabeth Kirby, Jay Apt, Paulina Jaramillo,
A Review of Large-Scale Wind Integration Studies,
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 49, pp. 768–794, 2015.
[pre-print]
- Robert Swain, Alex Berger, Josh Bongard, Paul Hines.
"Participation and Contribution in Crowdsourced Surveys"
PLOS ONE, vol. 10, no. 4, e0120521, 2015.
[Open-access]
- Andrew Seier, Paul Hines, and Jeff Frolik.
Data-Driven Thermal Modeling of Residential Service Transformers.
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 6, no. 2, 2015.
[pre-print]
2014
- Goodarz Ghanavati, Paul D. H. Hines, Taras I. Lakoba, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez.
Understanding early indicators of critical transitions in power systems from autocorrelation functions.
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Sept., 2014.
[arXiv preprint].
- Bevelander, K. E.; Kaipainen, K.; Swain, R.; Dohle S.; Bongard, J.C.; Hines, P.D.H. and Wansink, B.
Crowdsourcing Novel Childhood Predictors of Adult Obesity,
PLOS ONE, February 05, 2014.
- Pooya Rezaei, Jeff Frolik, and Paul Hines.
Packetized Plug-in Electric Vehicle Charge Management.
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 642-650, 2014.
[preprint]
2013
- E. Cotilla-Sanchez, P. Hines, C. Barrows, S. Blumsack, M. Patel,
Multi-attribute Partitioning of Power Networks Based on Electrical Distance.
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 4979 - 4987, 2013.
[preprint]
- Charles D. Brummitt, Paul D. H. Hines, Ian Dobson, Cristopher Moore, Raissa M. D'Souza,
Transdisciplinary electric power grid science.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 110, no. 30, 2013.
Supplementary information
- Alexander D. Hilshey, Paul D. H. Hines, Pooya Rezaei, and Jonathan R. Dowds.
Estimating the Impact of Electric Vehicle Smart Charging on Distribution Transformer Aging.
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 4, no. 2, 2013.
[preprint]
- Jon Dowds, Paul Hines, Seth Blumsack,
Estimating the impact of fuel-switching between liquid fuels and electricity under electricity sector carbon pricing schemes.
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 76–88, 2013. Special issue on Energy Systems.
- Jeffrey S. Marshall, Paul D. Hines, Jiarui D. Zhang, Francesca Minervini and Simtha Rinjitham,
Modeling the Impact of Electric Vehicle Charging on Heat Transfer around Underground Cables.
Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 97, pp. 76–83, April 2013.
- Josh C. Bongard, Paul D. H. Hines, Dylan Conger, Peter Hurd, and Zhenyu Lu.
Crowdsourcing Predictors of Behavioral Outcomes.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A, vol. 43, no. 1, 2013.
[arXiv preprint]
UVM Press Release
2012
- Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Paul Hines, and Christopher M. Danforth,
Predicting Critical Transitions from Time Series Synchrophasor Data.
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 3, no. 4, 2012.
[preprint]
- Margaret J. Eppstein and Paul D. H. Hines.
A "Random Chemistry" Algorithm for Identifying Collections of Multiple Contingencies that Initiate Cascading Failure.
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 27, no. 3, 2012.
[preprint]
- Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Paul D. H. Hines, Clayton Barrows, and Seth Blumsack.
Comparing the Topological and Electrical Structure of the North American Electric Power Infrastructure.
IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 6, no. 4, 2012.
[arXiv preprint]
- Justine Sears, Jon Dowds, Lisa Aultman-Hall, Paul Hines.
Travel Demand and Charging Capacity for Electric Vehicles in Rural States: A Vermont Case Study.
Transportation Research Record, vol. 2287, 2012.
[preprint]
- IEEE Task Force on Understanding, Prediction, Mitigation and Restoration of Cascading Failures
(M. Vaiman, K. Bell, Y. Chen, B. Chowdhury, I. Dobson, P. Hines, M. Papic, S. Miller, P. Zhang.)
Risk Assessment of Cascading Outages: Methodologies and Challenges.
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.27, no.2, 2012.
[preprint]
2011
2010
- P. Hines, E. Cotilla-Sanchez, S. Blumsack.
Do topological models provide good information about vulnerability in electric power networks?
Chaos: An interdisciplinary journal of non-linear science. vol. 20, no. 3, 2010.
[arXiv preprint].
This article is (to some extent) a response to this
NY Times article,
and was subsequently discussed in
AAAS/Science,
U.S. News and World Report,
Science Daily,
and a few others.
- R. Watts, P. Hines and J. Dowds.
The Debate over Re-Licensing the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.
The Electricity Journal, v. 23, n. 4, 2010.
- J. Dowds, P. Hines, R. Watts, C. Farmer.
Estimating the Impact of Electric Vehicle Charging on Electricity Costs Given Electricity Sector Carbon Cap.
Transportation Research Record. vol. 2191, pp. 43-49, 2010. A version of this paper is included
in our TRC report
on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
2009
- P. Hines, K. Balasubramaniam, and E. Cotilla Sanchez.
Cascading failures in power grids.
IEEE Potentials, v. 28, n. 5, pp. 24-30, 2009.
Local copy.
- P. Hines and S. Talukdar.
Reciprocally Altruistic Agents for the Mitigation of Cascading Failures in Power Grids.
International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, v. 5, n. 4, 2009.
[pre-print]
- P. Hines, J. Apt, and S. Talukdar.
Large Blackouts in North America: Historical Trends and Policy Implications.
Energy Policy, v. 37, pp. 5249-5259, 2009.
Older
Book chapters
- Mads Almassalkhi, Luis Duffaut Espinosa, Paul D. Hines, Jeff Frolik, Sumit Paudyal, and Mahraz Amini,
Asynchronous coordination of distributed energy resources with packetized energy management,
Book chapter in "Energy Markets and Responsive Grids," June 2018.
- Paul Hines and Pooya Rezaei,
"Cascading Failures in Power Systems," in
Smart Grid Handbook
Eds: Chen-Ching Liu, Stephen McArthur, Seung-Jae Lee,
Wiley, 2016,
- Jonathan Dowds, Paul Hines, Todd Ryan, William Buchanan, Elizabeth Kirby, Jay Apt, and Paulina Jaramillo,
“A Critical Review of Large-Scale Wind Integration Studies in the United States,” in
Variable Renewable Energy and the Electricity Grid, by Jay Apt and Paulina Jaramillo, RFF Press, 2014.
Available from Amazon.com.
- Paul Hines.
"Survivability and Reciprocal Altruism: Two Strategies for Intelligent Infrastructure with
Applications to Power Grids."
Intelligent Infrastructures.
Springer, 2009.
Available from Amazon.com.
Conference papers
- Laurence A. Clarfeld, Margaret J. Eppstein, Paul D.H. Hines and Eric M. Hernandez,
Assessing Risk from Cascading Blackouts Given Correlated Component Failures,
PSCC 2018, 20th Power Systems Computation Conference, Dublin, 2018.
- Kate Desrochers, Vanessa Hines, Forrest Wallace, John Slinkman, Andrew Giroux, Adil Khurram, Mahraz Amini, Mads Almassalkhi, and Paul D.H. Hines,
Real-world, Full-scale Validation of Power Balancing Services from Packetized Virtual Batteries,
The Ninth Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technology (ISGT 2019), Washington, DC, 2019.
- Luis A. Duffaut Espinosa, Mads Almassalkhi, Paul Hines, Jeff Frolik,
System Properties of Packetized Energy Management for Aggregated Diverse Resources,
PSCC 2018, 20th Power Systems Computation Conference, Dublin, 2018.
- Kai Zhou, Ian Dobson, Paul D.H. Hines, Zhaoyu Wang,
Can an influence graph driven by outage data determine transmission line upgrades that
mitigate cascading blackouts?
IEEE International Conference Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), June 2018, Boise ID USA
- L. A. Duffaut Espinosa, M. Almassalkhi, P. Hines, S. Heydari and J. Frolik,
Towards a Macromodel for Packetized Energy Management of Resistive Water Heaters,
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 2017.
- L. A. Duffaut Espinosa, M. Almassalkhi, P. Hines and J. Frolik,
Aggregate Modeling and Coordination of Diverse Energy Resources Under Packetized Energy Management,
Conference on Decision and Control, 2017.
- M. Almassalkhi, J. Frolik, P. Hines,
Packetized energy management: Asynchronous and anonymous coordination of thermostatically controlled loads
American Control Conference, 2017.
- Paul D. H. Hines, Seth Blumsack, Markus Schläpfer.
When are Decentralized Infrastructure Networks Preferable to Centralized Ones?.
Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2017.
- Zachary Lee and Paul D.H. Hines,
Droop Control in a Mechanical Power Grid Simulator,
IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Boston, 2016.
- Samuel Chevalier and Paul D.H. Hines,
System-Wide Early Warning Signs of Instability in Stochastically Forced Power Systems,
IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Boston, 2016.
- Pooya Rezaei, Margaret J. Eppstein, and Paul D. H. Hines,
Rapid Assessment, Visualization and Mitigation of Cascading Failure Risk in Power Systems,
Hawaii International Conf. on System Sciences, 2015, Kauai, HI.
- Goodarz Ghanavati, Paul D. H. Hines and Taras I. Lakoba,
"Investigating early warning signs of oscillatory instability in simulated phasor measurements,"
IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, July 2014.
[arxiv preprint]
- P. Rezaei, P. Hines, M. Eppstein,
"Estimating Cascading Failure Risk: Comparing Monte Carlo Sampling and Random Chemistry,"
IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, July 2014.
[arxiv preprint]
- Clayton Barrows, Seth Blumsack, Paul Hines,
Correcting Correcting Optimal Transmission Switching for AC power flows,
IEEE PES General Meeting, July 2014.
- P Rezaei, PDH Hines,
Changes in cascading failure risk with generator dispatch method and system load level,
IEEE PES T&D Conference and Exposition, Chicago, April 2014.
- Emilie Hogan, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Mahantesh Halappanavar, Shaobu Wang, Patrick Mackey, Paul Hines, Zhenyu Huang,
Towards effective clustering techniques for the analysis of electric power grids,
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on High Performance Computing, Networking and Analytics
for the Power Grid (HiPCNA-PG), 2013.
- Pooya Rezaei and Paul D. H. Hines,
"Cascading Failure Risk Variation with Generator Dispatch and System Load Level,"
IEEE PES T and D Conference and Exposition, 2013.
[arXiv pre-print]
- Goodarz Ghanavati, Paul D. H. Hines, Taras Lakoba, and Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez,
Calculation of the Autocorrelation Function of the Stochastic Single Machine Infinite Bus System,
North American Power Symposium, 2013.
[pre-print]
- IEEE PES Task Force on Cascading Failure,
Mitigation and Prevention of Cascading Outages: Methodologies and Practical Applications.
IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Vancouver, July 2013.
[pre-print]
- Paul Hines, Ian Dobson, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, and Margaret Eppstein.
Dual Graph and Random Chemistry methods for Cascading Failure Analysis.
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan. 2012.
[pre-print]
- J. Frolik and P. Hines.
Urgency-Driven, Plug-In Electric Vehicle Charging.
IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Berlin, Germany, 2012.
[pre-print]
- Ronan Fitzmaurice, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, and Paul Hines.
Evaluating the Impact of Modeling Assumptions for Cascading Failure Simulation.
Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2012.
[pre-print]
- Alexander D. Hilshey, Pooya Rezaei, Paul D. H. Hines, Jeff Frolik,
Electric vehicle charging: Transformer impacts and smart, decentralized solutions,
Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2012.
- J. Frolik and P. Hines,
Random access, electric vehicle charge management,
1st IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference (IEVC), Greenville, SC, March 4-8, 2012.
- Christopher Parmer, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Heidi K. Thornquist, and Paul D. H. Hines.
Developing a Dynamic Model of Cascading Failure for High Performance Computing using Trilinos.
Proc. of HiPCNA-PG 2011, Seattle, 2011.
- Alexander Hilshey and Paul Hines.
Estimating the acceleration of transformer aging due to electric vehicle charging.
Proc. of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting.
Detroit, 2011.
- Paul D. H. Hines, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Benjamin O’Hara, and Christopher Danforth.
Estimating Dynamic Instability Risk by Measuring Critical Slowing Down.
Proc. of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting.
Detroit, 2011.
- Paul Hines, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Seth Blumsack.
Topological Models and Critical Slowing Down: Two Approaches to Power System Blackout Risk Analysis.
Proc. of Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Kauai, 2011. (Winner of the
best paper award for the power systems track).
- Paulina Jaramillo and Paul Hines.
A Review Of Large-scale Renewable Electricity Integration Studies.
Proc. of the First Integration and Policy Workshop for the RenewElec Project.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Oct. 2010.
- Paul Hines.
Estimating Regulation Reserve Requirements As Wind Generation Increases - A Problem Definition.
Proc. of the First Integration and Policy Workshop for the RenewElec Project.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Oct. 2010.
- P. Hines, S. Blumsack, E. Cotilla Sanchez, C. Barrows.
The Topological and Electrical Structure of Power Grids.
Proceedings of the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
Kauai, 2010.
- C. Farmer, P. Hines, J. Dowds, S. Blumsack.
Modeling the Impact of Increasing PHEV Loads on the Distribution Infrastructure.
Proceedings of the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
Kauai, 2010.
- J. Dowds, P. Hines, R. Watts, C. Farmer,
Estimating the Impact of Electric Vehicle Charging on Electricity Costs Given an Electricity Sector Carbon Cap.
Proceedings of the 2010 Transportation Research Board Conference
Washington, DC, 2010.
- P. Hines, J. Bongard, and M. Brown Burkins.
A Scalable Approach to Smart-Grid Technology or "A Smarter Smart Grid".
Proc. of the Fifth Annual Carnegie Mellon Conference on the Electricity Industry: Smart Grids,
Pittsburgh, 2009.
- S. Blumsack, P. Hines, M. Patel, C. Barrows, E. Cotilla Sanchez.
Defining Power Network Zones from Measures of Electrical Distance.
Proc. of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Calgary, 2009.
- P. Hines and S. Talukdar.
Reciprocally Altruistic Agents for the Mitigation of Cascading Failures in Electrical Power Networks.
Proc. of the International Conference on Infrastructure Systems,
Rotterdam, 2008.
- P. Hines, J. Apt and S. Talukdar.
Trends in the History of Large Blackouts in the United States.
Proc. of the IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting,
Pittsburgh, 2008.
- S. Blumsack, C. Samaras, and P. Hines.
Long-Term Electric System Investments to Support Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
Proc. of the IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting.
Pittsburgh, 2008.
- C. Vartanian, D. Law, P. Hines, R. Yinger, S. Hamilton, and A. Feliachi.
Agent-based Distribution Circuit Automation.
Proc. of the IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting,
Pittsburgh, 2008.
- P. Hines and S. Blumsack.
A Centrality Measure for Electrical Networks.
Proc. of the 41st. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Hawaii, 2008.
- P. Hines, S. Hamilton, R. Yinger, C. Vartanian, A. Feliachi, and K. Schoder.
Integrated, agent-based, real-time control systems for transmission and distribution networks.
Proc. of GridWise Architecture Council Grid Interop Forum,
Albequerque, 2007.
- S.L. Hamilton, C.K. Vartanian, M.E. Johnson, A. Feliachi, K. Schoder, and P. Hines.
Circuit of the Future: Interoperability and SCE's DER Program.
Proc. of IREP 2007: Bulk Power System Dynamics and Control-VII,
Charleston, 2007.
- Sarosh Talukdar, Dong Jia, Paul Hines, and Bruce Krogh.
Distributed Model Predictive Control for the Mitigation of Cascading Failures.
Proc. of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
Seville, Spain. Dec. 2005.
- Paul Hines, Huaiwei Liao, Dong Jia, and Sarosh Talukdar.
Autonomous Agents and Cooperation for the Control of Cascading Failures in Electric Grids.
Proc. of the IEEE Conf. on Networking, Sensing, and Control.
Tucson, Mar. 2005.
- Paul Hines, Dong Jia, and Sarosh Talukdar.
Distributed Model Predictive Control for Electric Grids.
Proc. of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Conference, Pittsburgh, Dec. 2004,
- Paul Hines and Sarosh Talukdar.
Reducing the Costs of Disturbances to the Electric Power Network.
Presented at the Int. Assn. for Energy Economics meeting, Washington D.C., June 2004.
Working papers, policy reports, and other stuff
- Paul Hines, Jason Veneman, Brian Tivnan
Smart Grid: Reliability, Security, and Resiliency.
University of Vermont/MITRE Working Paper. January, 2014.
- Paul Hines, Jeff Frolik, Jeffrey Marshall, Pooya Rezaei, Andrew Seier, Andrew Fuhrmann, Jonathan Dowds, Alexander Hilshey,
Understanding and
Managing the Impacts of Electric Vehicles on Electric Power Distribution Systems,
UVM Transportation Research Center Report #14-010.
- Jonathan Dowds, Paul Hines, Chris Farmer, Richard Watts, Steve Letendre,
Plug‐in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Project: Phase II Report.
UVM Transportation Research Center. March 25, 2010.
- Paul Hines.
A Decentralized Approach to Reducing the Social Costs of Cascading Failures.
Ph.D. thesis for the Department of Engineering and Public Policy,
Carnegie Mellon University, 2007.
- Paul Hines.
Controlling Cascading Failures with Cooperative Autonomous Agents.
Research paper written for the Engineering and Public Policy Dept. qualifying exams,
Carnegie Mellon University, Jan. 2005.
- Spring 2004 Carnegie Mellon U. Engineering and Public Policy Project Course:
Sustaining Pittsburgh's Vital Services when the Power Goes Out.
- Paul Hines.
A Power Systems Capstone Design Project and Associated Simulation Software Designed to Meet
the Changing Needs of the Electrical Power Industry and Engineering Accreditation
Requirements.
Master's thesis for the University of Washington Electrical Engineering Department, 2001.
