Resilient Strategies in Cyber-Physical Energy Systems

Dear Colleagues

Energy systems and particularly power systems, as critical infrastructures, are of supreme importance to society. The current major developments, namely, the evolving producer and consumer structures and characteristics as well as the dynamics of ICT innovations and smart solutions, threaten the operation of power systems. If we fail to make the new digitalized power system at least as robust and resilient as the current system, the consequences could be drastic and a threat to society. Such a concern would severely obstruct the progress of energy-system transformation and, subsequently, the businesses working towards sustainable energy solutions. How can we improve the ability of cyber-physical energy systems (CPES) to respond to rare, hard-to-predict and unexpected disruptive events with large magnitudes and consequences, e.g., cyber attacks and extreme-weather events?

In order to answer this question, researchers and practitioners need to look closely at holistic methods and approaches that help us to understand, model and predict the behavior of the overall system and its components regarding the most important details, comprehend the relationships and interactions among them, and use the gained knowledge in the decision-making chain. In addition, innovative mitigation strategies are required to enhance the ability of the system to adapt and provide timely responses to complex disruptive events.

We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, which includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:

• The analytic monitoring and situational awareness of both ICT and power systems;
• The modelling of complex events (e.g., cyber attacks, extreme-weather events, fires and cascaded events);
• Systematic analyses of interdependent systems;
• The modelling and analysis of human behavior and interaction in CPES;
• Integrated mitigation and remedial strategies in CPES;
• The application of digital real-time simulation in the validation and testing of system resilience;
• Co-simulation methods for ICT and power systems.

We welcome studies that are technical, socio-technical or even social in nature that particularly promote the application of research methods based on qualitative, quantitative, design-science and critical approaches for the aforementioned topics.

Dr. Davood Babazadeh
Prof. Dr. Tero Vartiainen
Dr. Panos Kotsampopoulos
Guest Editors

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• resilience
• smart city
• smart grid
• microgrid
• digitalization, multi-domain simulation
• data-driven modelling
• artificial intelligence
• analytical monitoring
• situational awareness
• cyber security
• distributed control
• cyber-physical energy systems