Selected Publications

Journal articles

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.
Local copy.

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.
Pre-print version.

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. Controlling Cascading Failures with Cooperative Autonomous Agents. International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, v. 3, n. 2/3, pp. 192-220, 2007.
local copy.

P. D. Hines and R. D. Christie. A capstone design project to meet the needs of the changing power systems industry and satisfy new accreditation standards. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, v. 17, n. 3, 2002.

Book chapters

Paul Hines. "Survivability and Reciprocal Altruism: Two Strategies for Intelligent Infrastructure with Applications to Power Grids." Intelligent Infrastructures. Springer, 2009.

Conference papers

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. in revision

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

J. Dowds, C. Farmer, P. Hines, R. Watts, and S. Blumsack. A Review of Results from Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Impact Studies. Working paper. Dec. 2009.

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.