Evidence for self-organized criticality in a time series of electric power system blackouts

By Benjamin A. Carreras, David E. Newman, Ian Dobson, A. B. Poole. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1: Regular Papers, 2004

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Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Economics and Econometrics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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In Condensed Matter Physics

1. Paul D. H. Hines

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Paul D. H. Hines
2. Jay Apt
3. Sarosh N. Talukdar
4. Ian Dobson
5. Bill McKelvey
6. Pierpaolo Andriani

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Ian Dobson
2. Paul D. H. Hines
3. Keith R. W. Bell
4. Jay Apt
5. David M. Ward
6. Benjamin A. Carreras
7. David E. Newman
8. Jeremy J. Michalek

Citations in the corpus

• Analyzing and modeling real-world phenomena with complex networks: a survey of applications (2007, background): “These dynamical processes were simul ated in [277, 278, 279, 280, 281], from which it was inferred that the size of the blackouts foll ows a power-law tail, which means that big blackouts are not so uncommon.”
• Beyond Gaussian averages: redirecting international business and management research toward extreme events and power laws (2007, background): “…Sornette (2002) Bak (1996) Baum and Silverman (2001) Bak (1996) Nekola and Brown (2007) Casti (1994) Bak (1996) MINDAT Gutenberg and Richter (1944) Carreras et al. (2004) Casti (1994) Weinberg and Podladchikov (1994) Hughes and Nathan (1994); Marsili and Zhang (1996) Hughes et al. (2003) Baryshev…”
• Large blackouts in North America: Historical trends and policy implications (2009, methodology): “The sizes of large blackouts in the United States follow a power-law probability distribution (Carreras et al., 2000; Talukdar et al., 2003; Carreras et al., 2004).”
• For the Grid and Through the Grid: The Role of Power Line Communications in the Smart Grid (2010, neutral): “” Blackout data from several countries suggests that the frequency of large blackouts is governed by a power-law, which is consistent with the grid being a complex system designed and operated near a critical point [129].”
• Risk Assessment of Cascading Outages: Methodologies and Challenges (2012, methodology): “in both theoretical models and empirical blackout data [10], [11].”