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Abstract: This paper presents a new method for distribution network reconfiguration that uses the features of the Open Source Distribution System Simulator (OpenDSS) and improved binary particle swarm ...

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The Protection settings optimizer (PSO) is a Python package for calculating optimal protection settings for power systems protection devices such as relays and reclosers. The PSO algorithm uses ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel method for distribution system feeder reconfiguration. The problem is formulated as a black-box optimization problem such that it can be solved by Mesh Adaptive ...

I have moved all the original BASIC source code into a folder for each project in the original book (first volume). Note that Lyle Kopnicky has generously normalized all the code (thanks Lyle!) to run ...

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