International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems

Co-Editors: T.S. Dillon Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute, Curtin University, Enterprise Unit 4, De Laeter Way, Technology Park Bentley, 6102, Australia, Fax: +61-03-9894-5633, M.A. Laughton Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK, Y. Sekine Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), 1-6-1 Marunochi, 100-0005 Chiyoda-Ku, Japan, Fax: 00813 32872840, Submissions to: A. Hammadi Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute, Curtin University, Enterprise Unit 4, De Laeter Way, Technology Park Bentley, 6102, Australia, Advisory Editorial Board: G. Andersson Power Systems Laboratory, Zürich, Switzerland, N.J. Balu EPRI, Palo Alto, CA, USA, R. Billinton University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, P. Bornard Electricité de France (EDF), Clamart, France, A. Bose Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, M. Calovic University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, J. Carpentier Electricité de France (EDF), Clamart, France, M.T. Correia de Barros Instituto da Energia, Lisbon, Portugal, B.J. Cory Imperial College London, London, UK, M. Da Silva Universidade Federal do Maranhao, Maranhao, Brazil, H.W. Dommel University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, G. Douard Electricité de France (EDF), Clamart, France, M.E. El-Hawary Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, A. Germond École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, H. Glavitsch Power Systems Laboratory, Zürich, Switzerland, E. Handschin Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, M. Ilic Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, M.R. Irving Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, A. Klos Instytut Electroenergetyki Politchnika, Warsaw, Poland, H.J. Koglin Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, D.P. Kothari Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, L.L. Lai City University London, London, UK, O.P. Malik University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, P. Marannino Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, M.V.F. Pereira Power Systems Research Inc, Rio de Janerio, Brazil, T. Sakaguchi Information Technology America Inc, Cambridge, MA, USA, V.A. Stroev Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation, K. Takahashi Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Chiyoda-Ku, Japan, L. Wehenkel Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium