Simulation Models and Implementation of a Simulator for the Performability Analysis of Electric Power Systems Considering Interd

Electric Power Systems (EPS) become more and more critical for our society, since they provide vital services for the human activities. At the same time, obtaining dependable behaviour of EPS is an highly challenging task, both in terms of defining effective business management and in terms of analysis of dependability and performability attributes. A major concern when dealing with EPS is the understanding and the evaluation of the interdependencies between Electric Infrastructures (EI) and the Computer-based Control System (CCS), which controls the status and the activities of EI. Studies on these interdependencies are only at an early stage of development. Major difficulties are the complexity of the infrastructures under analysis and the lack of well-established models and tools for dealing with them. This paper presents an ad-hoc simulator for the evaluation of dependability and performability measures in EPS. The system model the simulator is based on focuses on interdependenc...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HASE
• Authors: Francesco Romani, Silvano Chiaradonna, Felicita Di Giandomenico, Luca Simoncini
• Keywords: Dependability, Explicit Modeling, HASE 2007, Interdependencies