Ian Dobson, PhD - Publications

Affiliations: 
1989-2011 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI 
 2011- Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States 
Area:
Electric power systems, complex systems, nonlinear dynamics, risk analysis
Website:
http://iandobson.ece.iastate.edu

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Year Citation  Score
2020 Kelly-Gorham MR, Hines PD, Zhou K, Dobson I. Using Utility Outage Statistics to Quantify Improvements in Bulk Power System Resilience Electric Power Systems Research. 189: 106676. DOI: 10.1016/J.Epsr.2020.106676  0.384
2019 Carreras BA, Reynolds-Barredo JM, Dobson I, Newman DE. Critical behavior of power transmission network complex dynamics in the OPA model. Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.). 29: 033103. PMID 30927848 DOI: 10.1063/1.5066370  0.382
2018 Sharma S, Pushpak S, Chinde V, Dobson I. Sensitivity of Transient Stability Critical Clearing Time Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 33: 6476-6486. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2018.2854650  0.321
2017 Hines PDH, Dobson I, Rezaei P. Cascading Power Outages Propagate Locally in an Influence Graph That is Not the Actual Grid Topology Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 32: 958-967. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2016.2578259  0.402
2016 Tajer A, Dobson I, Kar S, Lavaei J, Xie L. Guest Editorial The Theory of Complex Systems With Applications to Smart Grid Operations Ieee Transactions On Smart Grid. 7: 1949-1950. DOI: 10.1109/Tsg.2016.2575418  0.381
2016 Bialek J, Ciapessoni E, Cirio D, Cotilla-Sanchez E, Dent C, Dobson I, Henneaux P, Hines P, Jardim J, Miller S, Panteli M, Papic M, Pitto A, Quiros-Tortos J, Wu D. Benchmarking and Validation of Cascading Failure Analysis Tools Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2016.2518660  0.331
2016 Mendoza-Armenta S, Dobson I. Applying a Formula for Generator Redispatch to Damp Interarea Oscillations Using Synchrophasors Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 31: 3119-3128. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2015.2485519  0.331
2016 Darvishi A, Dobson I. Threshold-Based Monitoring of Multiple Outages With PMU Measurements of Area Angle Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 31: 2116-2124. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2015.2454517  0.36
2016 Vournas CD, Ramirez L, Dobson I. On Two-Bus Equivalents of Transmission Corridors Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 31: 2497-2498. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2015.2449763  0.38
2016 Dobson I. Electricity grid: When the lights go out Nature Energy. 1: 1-2. DOI: 10.1038/Nenergy.2016.59  0.34
2015 Romero N, Nozick LK, Dobson I, Xu N, Jones DA. Seismic retrofit for electric power systems Earthquake Spectra. 31: 1157-1176. DOI: 10.1193/052112Eqs193M  0.33
2013 Brummitt CD, Hines PD, Dobson I, Moore C, D'Souza RM. Transdisciplinary electric power grid science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: 12159. PMID 23882031 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1309151110  0.343
2013 Sehwail H, Dobson I. Applying Synchrophasor Computations to a Specific Area Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 28: 3503-3504. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2013.2248957  0.32
2013 Qi J, Dobson I, Mei S. Towards Estimating the Statistics of Simulated Cascades of Outages With Branching Processes Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 28: 3410-3419. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2013.2243479  0.338
2013 Kim J, Bucklew JA, Dobson I. Splitting method for speedy simulation of cascading blackouts Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 28: 3010-3017. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2012.2231887  0.572
2012 Vaiman M, Bell K, Chen Y, Chowdhury B, Dobson I, Hines P, Papic M, Miller S, Zhang P. Risk assessment of cascading outages: Methodologies and challenges Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 27: 631-641. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2011.2177868  0.305
2012 Romero N, Xu N, Nozick LK, Dobson I, Jones D. Investment planning for electric power systems under terrorist threat Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 27: 108-116. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2011.2159138  0.33
2012 Kim J, Wierzbicki KR, Dobson I, Hardiman RC. Estimating Propagation and Distribution of Load Shed in Simulations of Cascading Blackouts Ieee Systems Journal. 6: 548-557. DOI: 10.1109/Jsyst.2012.2192061  0.316
2011 Dobson I. The irrelevance of electric power system dynamics for the loading margin to voltage collapse and its sensitivities Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, Ieice. 2: 263-280. DOI: 10.1587/Nolta.2.263  0.361
2011 Newman DE, Carreras BA, Lynch VE, Dobson I. Exploring Complex Systems Aspects of Blackout Risk and Mitigation Ieee Transactions On Reliability. 60: 134-143. DOI: 10.1109/Tr.2011.2104711  0.39
2010 Dobson I, Kim J, Wierzbicki KR. Testing branching process estimators of cascading failure with data from a simulation of transmission line outages. Risk Analysis : An Official Publication of the Society For Risk Analysis. 30: 650-62. PMID 20199655 DOI: 10.1111/J.1539-6924.2010.01369.X  0.596
2010 Kim J, Dobson I. Approximating a Loading-Dependent Cascading Failure Model With a Branching Process Ieee Transactions On Reliability. 59: 691-699. DOI: 10.1109/Tr.2010.2055928  0.572
2010 Beard LM, Cardell JB, Dobson I, Galvan F, Hawkins D, Jewell W, Kezunovic M, Overbye TJ, Sen PK, Tylavsky DJ. Key technical challenges for the electric power industry and climate change Ieee Transactions On Energy Conversion. 25: 465-473. DOI: 10.1109/Tec.2009.2032578  0.342
2008 Ren H, Dobson I, Carreras BA. Long-Term Effect of the n-1 Criterion on Cascading Line Outages in an Evolving Power Transmission Grid Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 23: 1217-1225. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2008.926417  0.307
2008 Ren H, Dobson I. Using Transmission Line Outage Data to Estimate Cascading Failure Propagation in an Electric Power System Ieee Transactions On Circuits and Systems Ii-Express Briefs. 55: 927-931. DOI: 10.1109/Tcsii.2008.924365  0.336
2007 Dobson I, Carreras BA, Lynch VE, Newman DE. Complex systems analysis of series of blackouts: cascading failure, critical points, and self-organization. Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.). 17: 026103. PMID 17614690 DOI: 10.1063/1.2737822  0.425
2007 Arroyo J, Dobson I. Counterexamples to a Method for Identifying Hopf Bifurcations Without Eigenvalue Calculation Ieee Transactions On Circuits and Systems Ii-Express Briefs. 54: 432-434. DOI: 10.1109/Tcsii.2006.890404  0.384
2006 Nedic DP, Dobson I, Kirschen DS, Carreras BA, Lynch VE. Criticality in a cascading failure blackout model International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 28: 627-633. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ijepes.2006.03.006  0.396
2005 Luckjiff G, Dobson I. Hexagonal Sigma Delta modulators in power electronics Ieee Transactions On Power Electronics. 20: 1075-1083. DOI: 10.1109/Tpel.2005.854029  0.558
2005 Dobson I, Carreras BA, Lynch VE, Nkei B, Newman DE. Estimating Failure Propagation In Models Of Cascading Blackouts Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. 19: 475-488. DOI: 10.1017/S026996480505031X  0.317
2005 Dobson I, Carreras BA, Newman DE. A Loading-Dependent Model of Probabilistic Cascading Failure Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. 19: 15-32. DOI: 10.1017/S0269964805050023  0.371
2005 Chen J, Thorp JS, Dobson I. Cascading dynamics and mitigation assessment in power system disturbances via a hidden failure model International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 27: 318-326. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ijepes.2004.12.003  0.425
2004 Carreras BA, Lynch VE, Dobson I, Newman DE. Complex dynamics of blackouts in power transmission systems. Chaos. 14: 643-652. PMID 15446974 DOI: 10.1063/1.1781391  0.387
2004 Dobson I, Barocio E. Scaling of normal form analysis coefficients under coordinate change Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 19: 1438-1444. DOI: 10.1109/Tpwrs.2004.831691  0.34
2004 Carreras BA, Newman DE, Dobson I, Poole AB. Evidence for self-organized criticality in a time series of electric power system blackouts Ieee Transactions On Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers. 51: 1733-1740. DOI: 10.1109/Tcsi.2004.834513  0.359
2004 Zhang J, Dobson I, Alvarado FL. Quantifying transmission reliability margin International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy System. 26: 697-702. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ijepes.2004.05.002  0.344
2003 Luckjiff G, Dobson I. Hexagonal sigma-delta modulation Ieee Transactions On Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers. 50: 991-1005. DOI: 10.1109/Tcsi.2003.815190  0.442
2002 Carreras BA, Lynch VE, Dobson I, Newman DE. Critical points and transitions in an electric power transmission model for cascading failure blackouts Chaos. 12: 985-994. PMID 12779622 DOI: 10.1063/1.1505810  0.43
2002 Greene S, Dobson I, Alvarado FL. Sensitivity of transfer capability margins with a fast formula Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 17: 34-40. DOI: 10.1109/Mper.2002.4311677  0.399
2001 Dobson I, Zhang J, Greene S, Engdahl H, Sauer P. Is strong modal resonance a precursor to power system oscillations? Ieee Transactions On Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications. 48: 340-349. DOI: 10.1109/81.915389  0.354
1999 Gray GL, Kammer DC, Dobson I, Miller AJ. Heteroclinic Bifurcations in Rigid Bodies Containing Internally Moving Parts and a Viscous Damper Journal of Applied Mechanics. 66: 720-728. DOI: 10.1115/1.2791660  0.301
1997 Greene S, Dobson I, Alvarado FL. Sensitivity of the loading margin to voltage collapse with respect to arbitrary parameters Ieee Power Engineering Review. 17: 60. DOI: 10.1109/59.574947  0.332
1996 Rajaraman R, Dobson I. Damping estimates of subsynchronous and power swing oscillations in power systems with thyristor switching devices Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 11: 1926-1930. DOI: 10.1109/59.544665  0.393
1995 Dobson I. Stability of ideal thyristor and diode switching circuits Ieee Transactions On Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers. 42: 517-529. DOI: 10.1109/81.414825  0.309
1994 Alvarado F, Dobson I, Hu Y. Computation of closest bifurcations in power systems Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 9: 918-928. DOI: 10.1109/59.317655  0.413
1994 Overbye TJ, Dobson I, DeMarco CL. Q-V curve interpretations of energy measures for voltage security Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 9: 331-340. DOI: 10.1109/59.317593  0.328
1994 Dobson I, Delchamps DF. Truncated fractal basin boundaries in the pendulum with nonperiodic forcing Journal of Nonlinear Science. 4: 315-328. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02430636  0.65
1993 Dobson I, Lu L. New methods for computing a closest saddle node bifurcation and worst case load power margin for voltage collapse Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 8: 905-913. DOI: 10.1109/59.260912  0.401
1992 Dobson I, Lu L. Voltage collapse precipitated by the immediate change in stability when generator reactive power limits are encountered Ieee Transactions On Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers. 39: 762-766. DOI: 10.1109/81.250167  0.412
1992 Dobson I. Observations on the geometry of saddle node bifurcation and voltage collapse in electrical power systems Ieee Transactions On Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers. 39: 240-243. DOI: 10.1109/81.128018  0.378
1992 Canizares CA, Alvarado FL, DeMarco CL, Dobson I, Long WF. Point of collapse methods applied to AC/DC power systems Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 7: 673-683. DOI: 10.1109/59.141773  0.346
1992 Dobson I, Glavitsch H, Liu C-, Tamura Y, Vu K. Voltage collapse in power systems Ieee Circuits & Devices. 8: 40-45. DOI: 10.1109/101.136788  0.377
1989 Chiang H-, Dobson I, Thomas RJ, Thorp JS, Fekih-Ahmed L. On voltage collapse in electric power systems Ieee Transactions On Power Systems. 5: 601-611. DOI: 10.1109/59.54571  0.366
1989 Dobson I, Chiang H. Towards a theory of voltage collapse in electric power systems Systems & Control Letters. 13: 253-262. DOI: 10.1016/0167-6911(89)90072-8  0.404
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