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Counting-Based Reliability Estimation for Power-Transmission Grids

Counting-Based Reliability Estimation for Power-Transmission Grids.
Leonardo Duenas-Osorio, Kuldeep S. Meel, Roger Paredes and Moshe Y. Vardi.
In Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), February 2017.

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Abstract

Modern society is increasingly reliant on the functionality of infrastructure facilities and utility services. Consequently, there has been surge of interest in the problem of quantification of system reliability, which is known to be #P-complete. Reliability also contributes to the resilience of systems, so as to effectively make them bounce back after contingencies. Despite diverse progress, most techniques to estimate system reliability and resilience remain computationally expensive. In this paper, we investigate how recent advances in hashing-based approaches to counting can be exploited to improve computational techniques for system reliability.The primary contribution of this paper is a novel framework, RelNet, that provides provably approximately correct (PAC) estimates for arbitrary networks. We then apply RelNet to ten real world power transmission grids across different cities in the U.S. and are able to obtain, to the best of our knowledge, the first theoretically sound a priori estimates of reliability between several pairs of nodes of interest. Such estimates will help managing uncertainty and support rational decision making for community resilience.

BibTeX

  @inproceedings{DMPV17,
  title={Counting-Based Reliability Estimation for Power-Transmission Grids},
  author={Duenas-Osorio, Leonardo and Meel,  Kuldeep S. and Paredes, Roger and Vardi, Moshe Y.},
  year={2017},
  booktitle=AAAI,
  month=feb,
  bib2html_dl_pdf={../Papers/AAAI17.pdf},
  bib2html_pubtype={Refereed Conference},
   bib2html_rescat={Counting},
  abstract={Modern society is increasingly reliant on the functionality of 
infrastructure facilities and utility services. Consequently, there 
has been surge of interest in the problem of quantification of 
system reliability, which is known to be #P-complete. Reliability also contributes to the resilience of systems, so as to effectively make them   bounce back after contingencies. Despite 
diverse progress, most techniques to estimate system reliability and resilience remain computationally expensive. In this paper, we investigate 
how recent advances in hashing-based approaches to counting can 
be exploited to improve computational techniques for system 
reliability.
The primary contribution of this paper is a novel 
framework, RelNet, that provides provably approximately correct (PAC) estimates for arbitrary networks. 
We then apply RelNet to ten real world power transmission grids across different cities in the U.S. and are able to obtain, to the best of 
our knowledge, the first theoretically sound a priori estimates of reliability between several pairs of nodes of interest.  Such estimates will help managing uncertainty and support rational decision making for community resilience.},
}

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