Dr. Marija D. Ilić
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books

Yoon, Y. and Ilic, M., Transmission Provision and Pricing in the Changing Electric Power Industry, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

 

Skantze, P. and Ilic, M., Valuation, Hedging and Speculation in Competitive Electricity Markets: A Fundamental Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

 

Ilic, M.D. and J. Zaborszky, Dynamics and Control of Large Electric Power Systems, Wiley Interscience, May 2000 (900 pages).

 

Allen, E.H., Ilic, M., Price-Based Commitment Decisions in the Electricity Market, Springer-Verlag London Series on Advances in Industrial Control, November 1998.

 

Ilic, M., F. D. Galiana and L. Fink (eds.) Electric Power Systems Restructuring: Engineering and Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

 

Ilic, M.D. and S.X. Liu, Hierarchical Power Systems Control: Its Value in a Changing Electric Power Industry, Springer-Verlag London Limited Series, Advances in Industrial Control,1996.

Archival Papers Critically Reviewed Before Publication

Ilic, M., “Survey Paper on Fundamental Design for Distributed Electric Power Systems of the Future”, Special Issue of EPSR, May 2004 (invited)

Fumagali, E., Black, J., Vogelsang, I., Ilic, M., “Quality of Service Provision in Electric Power Distribution Systems Through Reliability Insurance”, TPWRS-00181-2002, IEEE Trans.on Power Systems (to appear, 2004).

 

Ilic, M., Apt, J., Khosla, P., Lave, L., Morgan, G., Talukdar, S., “Introducing Electric Power into a Multi-Disciplinary Curriculum for Network Industries, IEEE Tran. On Power Systems, Special Issue on Education, February 2004.

Talukdar, S., Apt, J.,, Ilic, M., Lave, L., Granger, M., “Cascading Failure: Survival versus Prevention”, The Electricity Journal, 25-31, Nov 2003.

Skantze, P., Ilic, M., Gubina, A., “Modeling Locational Price Spreads In Competitive Electric Power Applications for Transmission Rights Valuation and Replication”, Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications - Journal of Management Mathematics (Oxford University Press); Special Issue on Optimisation for the De-Regulated Electrical Power Industry, 2003—Invited paper, submitted October 2003.

Marija Ilic, Eric Hsieh, Prasad Ramanan, “Pricing of Distributed Multilateral Energy Transactions to Ensure System Security and Guide Economic Dispatch, IEEE Trans., on Power Systems”, May 2003.

Wagner, M., Skantze, P., Ilic, M., ``Hedging Optimization Algorithms for Deregulated Electricity Markets’’, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (under submission), February 2002.

Fumagalli, E., Black, J., Ilic, M., Vogelsang, I., ``Quality of Service Provision in Distributed Electric Power Systems Through Reliability Insurance’’, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (submitted for review), February 2002.

Ilic, M., Hyman, L., ``Don’t Rush the Seamstress: Second Thoughts on the Marriage of the Northeast Grids’’, Public Utilities Fortnightly, September 1, 2001.

Allen, E., N. LaWhite, Y.T. Yoon, J.W. Chapman and M.D. Ilic, "Interactive Object-Oriented Simulation of Interconnected Power Systems using SIMULINK," the IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 44,  February 2001.

Ilic, M., Skantze, P., Visudhiphan, P., ``Speakout: Electricity Troubles in California: Who’s Next?’’, IEEE Spectrum Magazine, February 2001, pp.11-13.

Ilic, M., Arce, J.R., Yoon, Y., Fumagali, E., ``Assessing Reliability in the New Environment’’,  The Electricity Journal, pp. 55-67, March 2001.

Allen, E.H., Ilic, M.D., "Reserve Markets for Power Systems Reliability",  IEEE PES Transactions, paper number 99 WM 343 (accepted, to appear)

Allen, E.H., Ilic, M.D., "Stochastic Unit Commitment for Power Producers", IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion (accepted, to appear).

Allen, E.H. and M. Ilic, "Interaction of Transmission Network and Load Phasor Dynamics in Electric Power Systems," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, November 2000, pp. 1613-1620.

Ilic, M., ``Eulogy for RTOs—Interregional is Better’’, Public Utilites Forthnightly, Oct 15, 2000.

Ilic, M., Skantze, P., ``Electric Power Systems Operation by Decision and Control: The Case Revisited’’, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, August 2000, pp. 25-39.

Prada, J.F., Ilic, M.D., ``Pricing Reliability: A Probabilistic Approach’’, Energetica, vol. 23, pp. 75-89, July 2000, ISSN 0120-9833, Columbia.

Yu, CN, Leotard, J-P, Ilic, M., "Dynamic Transmission Provision in Competitive Electric Power Industry", Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, 9, 351-388, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA.

Yu, CN, Yoon, T.Y., Ilic, M., Catelli, A., "On-line Voltage Regulation: The Case of New England", PE-082-PWRS-0-02-1999.

Allen, E., M. Ilic and Z. Younes, "Providing for Transmission in Times of Scarsity: An ISO Cannot Do it All," Electrical Power and Energy Systems, pp. 147-163, 1999 (Special Issue on Deregulation).

Ilic, M., "Benefits of Deregulation: Who Pays for Reliability?" Energia (invited), September 1998.

Younes, Z. and M. Ilic, "Generation Strategies for Gaming Transmission Constraints: Will the Deregulated Electric Power Market Be an Oligopoly?" Journal of Decision and Support Systems, (Special Issue on Restructuring of the Electric Power Industry), 1999.

Galiana, F.D. and M.D. Ilic, "A Mathematical Framework for the Analysis and Management of Power Transactions Under Open Access," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, PWRS-13, 681-687, May 1998.

Ilic, M., F.D. Galiana, L.H. Fink, A. Bose, P. Mallet, and H. Othman, "Transmission Capacity in Power Networks," Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 20, 99-110, 1998.

Ilic, M., Y.T. Yoon, A. Zobian, and M.E. Paravalos, "Toward Regional Transmission Provision and its Pricing in New England," Utilities Policy, 6, 245-256, 1997.

Hyman, L. and M.D. Ilic, "Scarce Resource, Real Business or Threat to Profitability?" Public Utilities Fortnightly, October  1997.

Ilic, M., L. Hyman, E.H. Allen and Z. Younes, "Transmission Scarcity: Who Pays?" The Electricity Journal, 10, 38-49, July 1997.

Hyman, L. and M.D. Ilic, "Will Consumers Benefit From New Power Era?" Forum on Applied Research and Policy, 12,  59-68, June 1997.

Fink, L., M. Ilic and F.D. Galiana, "Transmission Access Rights and Tariffs," Electric Power Systems Research, 43, 197-206, June 1997.

Ilic, M.D., Y.T. Yoon and A. Zobian, "Available Transmission Capacity and Its Value Under Open Access," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 12, 636-645, May 1997.

Zobian, A. and M.D. Ilic, "Unbundling of Transmission and Ancillary Services Part II: Cost-Based Pricing Framework," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 12, 549-558, May 1997.

Zobian, A. and M. D. Ilic, "Unbundling of Transmission and Ancillary Services Part I: Technical Issues," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 12, 539-548, May 1997.

LaWhite, N. and M.D. Ilic, "Vector Space Decomposition of Reactive Power for Periodic Nonsinusoidal Signals," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part I, Fundamental Theory and Applications, 44, 338-346, April 1997. Notable paper: This paper considers fundamentals of reactive power in non-sinusoidal signals.

Ilic, M., S.X. Liu, B.D. Eidson, C. Vialas, and M. Athans, "A New Structure-Based Approach to the Modeling and Control of Electric Power Systems in Response to Slow Reactive Power/Voltage Load Variations," IFAC Automatica, 33, 515-531, March 1997. Notable paper: This paper reports the new concept of tertiary coordinating scheme for regional voltage regulation and improved secondary voltage control in complex power systems. Depending on the objectives of the control design, the secondary control can be made to eliminate inter-regional interactions, or more interactions are allowed and optimized for systemwide performance of the interconnection.

Ilic, M. and L. Hyman, "Getting it Right the First Time: The Value of Transmission and High Technologies," The Electricity Journal, 9, 8-17, November 1996.

Ilic, M., "A Summer of Shortage," Public Utilities Fortnightly, July 1996.

Zobian, A. and M.D. Ilic, " A Steady-State Voltage Monitoring and Control Algorithm Using Localized Least Squares Minimization of Load Voltage Deviation," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 11, 929-938, May 1996.

Ilic, M.D., F.C. Graves, L.H. Fink and A. DiCaprio, "A Framework for Operations in Competitive Open Access Environment," The Electricity Journal, Special Issue on Restructuring of the Utility Industry,9 61-69, April 1996.

Allen, E.H., J.W. Chapman and M.D. Ilic, "Effects of Torsional Dynamics on Nonlinear Generator Control," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 4, 125-140, March 1996.Notable paper: This paper for the first time provides a control design for stabilizing a long standing problem of sub-synchronous resonance in operating electric power grid interconnected via long transmission lines. The paper is an important application of feedback linearizing control.

Ilic, M.D., "Fundamental Engineering Problems and Opportunities in Operating Power Transmission Grids of the Future," International Journal on Electrical Power Energy Systems, 17, 207-214, 1995. (Special Issue)

Ilic, M.D., Editorial in ibid, 1-2.

Ilic, M.D., S.X. Liu, G. Leung, C. Vialas and M. Athans, "Improved Secondary and Tertiary Voltage Control," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 10, 1851-1862, November 1995. Notable paper: This paper illustrates the relevance of structure-based modeling for large power networks. The results are demonstrated on the French power system and considered as a possible concept for the next stage National Control Center in Paris, France.

Yehia, M., R. Chedid, Z. Jaber, M.D. Ilic and A. Zobian, "An Improved Dynamically Allocated Data Structure for Power System Problems," The International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, 61-65, 1997.

Papers in Symposium or Conference Proceedings

Ilic, M., “Transmission System Reliability and Security under Open Access”, Proceedings of the IEEE PES GM, Boulder, CO, June 2004 (invited panel)

Ilic, M., ``Regulatory/Market and Engineering Needs for Enhancing Performance of the U.S. Electric Power Grid: Alternative Architectures and Methods for Their Implementation, Invited session "Informational and control reliability challenges in modern power systems" at the 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'2004),  July 18-21, 2004 - Orlando, Florida, USA.

Ilic, M., Toward a Multi-Layered Architecture of Large-Scale Complex Systems: Reliable and Efficient Man-Made Infrastructures, Proceedings of the MIT/ESD Symposium, Cambridge, MA, March 29-31, 2004.

Apt, J., Lave, L., Talukdar, S., Granger, M., Ilic, M., ``Electrical Blackouts: Repeating Our Mistakes'', Issues in Science and Technology (to appear, 2004).

Wang, H., Ilic, M., Vogelsang, I., “Multi-Layered Unbundled Delivery of Electricity Service to Customers under Normal Conditions”, Proceedings of the IEEE PES GM, Boulder, CO, June 2004 (accepted)

Cardell, J., Ilic, M., “Maintaining Stability with Distributed Generation in the Restructured Electric Power Industry”, Proceedings of the IEEE PES GM, Boulder, CO, June 2004 (accepted)

Ernst, D., Minoia, A., Ilic, M., “Market Dynamics Driven by the Decision-Making of Both Power Producers and Transmission Owners, Proceedings of the IEEE PES GM, Boulder, CO, June 2004 (accepted)

Wagner, M., Skantze, P, Ilic, M., “Hedging Optimization Algorithm for Competitive ELectric Power”, 12th ISAP 2003 Conference Proceedings, Aug 31-Sept 3, 2003, Lemnos, Greece.

Botterud, A., Ilic, M., Wagensteen, I., “ Optimization of Generation Investments under Uncertainty in Restructuring Power Markets”, 12th ISAP 2003 Conference Proceedings, Aug 31-Sept 3, 2003, Lemnos, Greece.

Ilic, M., ``Economics of Distributed Generation’’, Proceedings of the Power Systems Conference on Distributed Generation, March 13-15, 2002, Clemson University, NC (invited survey).

Black. J., Ilic, M., ``Demand-based Compensation for Distributed Generation’’, Proceedings of the Power Systems Conference on Distributed Generation, March 13-15, 2002, Clemson University, NC.

Ilic, M., ``Model-based Protocols for the Changing Electric Power Industry’’, Proceedings of the Power Systems Computation Conference, June 24-28, 2002, Seville, Spain.

Visudhiphan, P., Watz, J., Ilic, M., ``Applications of Autonomous Agents for Modeling Electricity Spot Market Price Dynamics’’, Proceedings of the Power Systems Computation Conference, June 24-28, 2002, Seville, Spain.

Visudhiphan, P., Ilic, M., ``On the Necessity of an Agent-based Approach to Assessing Market Power in the Electricity Markets’’, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications, July 8-12, 2002, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Arce, J., Ilic, M., Garces, F., ``Comparison of the Ex-ante and Ex-Post Methods for Short-Term Reliability Management’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Winter Power Meeting, New York City, NY, January 27-31, 2002.

Black, J.W., Watz, J., Ilic, M., ``Potential Benefits of Implementing Load Control’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Winter Power Meeting, New York City, NY, January 27-31, 2002.

Yoon, Y., Ilic, M., ``A Possible Notion of Short-term Value-based Reliability’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Winter Power Meeting, New York City, NY, January 27-31, 2002.

Visudhiphan, P., Ilic, M., Mladjan, M., ``On the Complexity of Market Power Assessment in the Electricity Spot Markets’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Winter Power Meeting, New York City, NY, January 27-31, 2002.

Zaborszky, J. and Ilic, M., `` Exploring the Potential of the All DC (ADC) Bulk Power Systems, Proceedings of the Bulk Power System Dynamics & Control V, August 26-31, 2001, Onomichi, Japan (plenary paper)

Ilic, M., Calovic, M., Mijuskovic, N., ``Energy Infrastructure in Yugoslavia: The Past and Challenges Ahead’’, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Environmental Recovery in Yugoslavia, 27-30 September, 2001, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Ilic, M., Calovic, M., Mijuskovic, N., Golob, R., Gubina, A., Gubina, F., Skantze, P., `` A Model-Based Approach to Energy Economics in the Balkans: Effects of Political and Deregulation Processes’’, 1st Balkan Power Conference, September 2001, Slovenia.

Ilic, M., ``Change of Paradigms in Complexity and Interdependencies of Infrastructures: The Case for Flexible New Protocols’’, Proceedings of the OSTP/NSF White House Meeting, June 2001.

Yoon, Y., Ilic, M., ``Independent Transmission Company (ITC) for Profit and Markets for Transmission’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Summer Power Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.

Yoon, Y., Ilic, M., ``Price-Cap Regulation for Transmission: Objectives and Tariffs’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Summer Power Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.

Yoon, Y., Ilic, M., Collison, K., ``Efficient Implementation of Inter-regional Transactions’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Summer Power Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.

Yong, Y., Ilic, M., ``Secondary Market for Transmission and the Supporting Infrastructures’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Summer Power Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.

Yong, Y., Collison, K., Ilic, M., ``Practical Implementation of Congestion Pricing Method’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Summer Power Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.

Jelinek, M., Ilic, M., ``A Strategic Framework for Electric Energy: Technology and Institutional Factors and IT in a Deregulated Environment’’, Proceedings of the NSF/DOE/EPRI sponsored Workshop on Research Needs in Complex Interactive Networks, Arlington, VA, December 2000, www NSF/ENG/ECS.

Black, J., Ilic, M., ``Survey of Technologies and Cost Estimates for Residential Electricity Services’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Summer Meeting, Vancouver, CA, July 2001.

Fumagali, E., Black, J., Ilic, M., Vogelsang, I., ``A Reliability Insurance Scheme for the Electricity Distribution Grid’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Summer Meeting, Vancouver, CA, July 2001.

Visudhiphan, P., Skantze, P., Ilic, M., ``Dynamics of New Investments in Competitive Electricity Markets and Its Impact on System Reliability’’, Proceedings of the Conference on Methods to Secure Peak Load Capacity on Deregulated Electricity Markets, Stockholm, Sweden, June 7-8, 2001.

Gozum, O.N., Ilic, M.D., ``Decision Tools for Electricity Transmission Service and Pricing’’, Proceedings of the IFAC Symposium on Modeling and Control of Economic Systems, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 6-8 2001.

Skantze, P., Ilic, M., ``Investment Dynamics and Long Term Price Trends in Competitive Electricity Markets’’, Proceedings of the IFAC Symposium on Modeling and Control of Economic Systems, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 6-8, 2001.

Visudhiphan, P., Ilic, M., ``A Multi-agent Approach to Modeling Electricity Spot Markets’’, Proceedings of the IFAC Symposium on Modeling and Control of Economic Systems, Austria, September 2001.

Yoon, Y., Ilic, M., ``Secondary Market for Transmission and the Supporting Infrastructures’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES SM, paper number 01SM141 Vancouver July 2001.

Black, J., Ilic, M., ``Survey of Technologies and Cost Estimates for Residential Electricity Services ‘’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES SM, Vancouver July 2001.

Arce, J.R., Ilic, M.D., Garces, F.F., ``Two New Methods to Assess Short-term Transmission Reliability’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES SM, Vancouver July 2001.

Arce, J.R., Ilic, M.D., Garces, F.F., ``Managing Short-term Relability Related Risks’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES SM, Vancouver July 2001.

Yoon, Y., Raikar, S., Ilic, M., ``Congestion Management for Large Electric Power Systems’’, paper number 114, Proceedings, 6th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, Madeira, Portugal, September 2000.

Yoon, Y.T., Collison, K., Arce, J.R., Ilic, M.D., ``Congestion Management Systems Methods: Comparison on 118 Bus System’’, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual North American Power Symposium, Waterloo, Canada, July 2000.

Yoon, Y., Collison, K., Ilic, M., ``Implementation of Cluster-based Congestion Management Systems ’’, Proceedings, Proceedings of the ICSOP, Ghana, July 2000.

Skantze, P., Ilic, M., Chapman, J., ``Stochastic Modeling of Electric Power Prices in a Multi-market Environment’’, Proceedings of the IEEE PES Winter Meeting, Singapore, Paper No. 2000WM-451, February 2000.

Prada, J.F., Ilic, M.D., "Pricing Reliability: A Probabilistic Approach", Proc. of the 1999 Large Engineering Systems Conference on Power Engineering (LESCOPE99), June 20-22, 1999, Halifax, Canada.

Ilic, M., Skantze, P., Yu, C-N., Fink, L.H., Cardell, J., "Power Exchange for Frequency Control (PXFC)", Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, February 1999, New York, NY.

Ilic, M., Yu, C-N., "A Possible Framework for Voltage/Reactive Power Markets", ibid.

Yu, C-N., Ilic, M., "Congestion Clusters-based Transmission Management Markets", ibid.

Visudhiphan, P., Ilic, M., "Dynamic Models for Gaming in Electricity Markets", ibid.

Leotard, J-P., Ilic, M., "On the Objectives of Transmission Pricing under Open Access", ibid.

Ilic, M., Yoon, T.Y., Yu, C.N., "The Role of Reactive Power/Voltage Support in Creating Market Power", Informs 99, Cincinnati, OH, May 1999.

Connors, S., Ilic, M.,  ``Making Electric Power Deregulation Work’’, Op/Ed, Boston Globe, December 13, 1998, pg. D7.

Ilic, M., Leotard, J-P., Rochlin, C., Stoft, S., "On the Objectives of Transmission Pricing",  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control-IV: Restructuring, Santorini, Greece, August 23-28, 1998

Ilic, M., Skantze, P., Yu, C-N.,  Fink, L.H., Cardell, J., "Power Exchange for Frequency Control (PXFC)", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control-IV: Restructuring, Santorini, Greece, August 23-28, 1998

Galiana, F.D., P. Cuervo Franco and M.  Ilic,  "Pool Generation Dispatch with Independent Transmission Projects," Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference of the International Association for Energy Economists, Quebec City, Canada, May 1998, pp. 105-114.

Younes, Z. and M. Ilic,  "Generation Strategies for Gaming Transmission Constraints: Will the Deregulated Electric Power Market Be an Oligopoly?" Proceedings of the Hawaii Systems Conference, Kona, HI, January 1998.

Ilic, M., ``Public Comments  to the Task Force on Electric System Reliability’’, Secretary of Energy Advisory Board’’, June 12, 1997.

Ilic, M. and L.  Hyman,  "Incentives for Transmission Investments," Proceedings of the EPRI Workshop on Power Delivery in the 21st Century, LaJolla, CA, November  1997.

Yoon, Y. B., J.B. Choo, Y.T.  Yoon and M.  Ilic, "Potential Use of FACTS on the Korea Electric Power Co. System," Proceedings of the EPRI Workshop on Power Delivery in the 21st Century LaJolla, CA, November  1997.

Banales, S. and M.  Ilic,  "On the Role and Value of Voltage Support in a Deregulated Power Industry," Proceedings of the North American Power Symposium, Laramie, WY, October 1997, pp. 471-478.

Allen, E.H.  and M. Ilic,  "Stochastic Unit Committment in a Deregulated Utility Industry," Proceedings of the North American Power Symposium, Laramie, WY, October 1997, pp. 105-112.

Lerner, P. and M.  Ilic, "On the Value of Transmission Systems: Incentives for Investment Under Open Access," Proceedings of the 18th Annual North American Conference of the International Association of Energy Economists,  San Francisco, CA,   September  1997, pp. 330-339.

Younes, Z. and  M. Ilic, "Transmission System Constraints in Non-Perfect Electricity Markets," Proceedings of the 18th Annual North American Conference of the International Association of Energy Economists, San Francisco, CA,  September  1997, pp. 256-265.

Chapman, J.W., J.M. Fini and M. Ilic, "A Time-Scale Decomposition for Secure Control with Limited Input Magnitude," Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Control Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 1997.

Ilic, M., P. Skantze, and C.N.  Yu, "Market-based Frequency Regulation: Can it be Done, Why and How?" Proceedings of the American Power Conference, April, 1997, Chicago, IL.

Ilic, M., Yu, C.N., ``Minimal system regulation and its value in a changing industry’’, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Ann Arbor, MI, November 1996.

Lecinq, B. and M.  Ilic,  "Peak-load Pricing for Transmission Access," Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI,  January 1997, pp. 624-633.

Cardell, J. and M. Ilic, "Modeling and Stability Analysis for Distributed Generation Systems", Proceedings of the North American Power Symposium, MIT, Cambridge, MA, November 1996, pp. 239-347.

Skantze, P. and M.  Ilic, "Price-Driven Model for System Control Under Open Access: Short-term Gaming for Profit vs. System Regulation," Proceedings of the North American Power Symposium, MIT, Cambridge, MA, November 1996, pp. 89-96.

Ilic, M., F.D. Galiana, L. Fink,  A. Bose,  P. Mallet and H. Othman, "Transmission Capacity in Power Networks," Proceedings of the Power Systems Computation Conference, Dresden, Germany, August 1996, pp. 5-21  (invited survey).

Ilic, M., "A Possible Framework for Implementing Energy Transactions Into Real-time System Operation and Pricing for System Services," Proceedings of the EPRI Conference on Innovative Approaches to Electricity Pricing: Managing the Transition to Market-Based Pricing, La Jolla, CA, March 1996. (invited)

Ilic, M., Graves, F.C., "Optimal Use of Ancillary Generation under Open Access and Its Possible Implementation,"  Proceedings of the Power Systems Computer Conference, Dresden, August 1996.

Other Writings (Technical Reports and Testimony)

Ilic, Marija. “The Future Power Grid.” Cover story in Power Quality,” June 2002, pp. 14-17, 21.

Ilic, M., Collison, K., Yoon, Y.,  Development of Recommendations for the Collection of Information Describing Reliability of the Electric Power Industry During Its Transition into a Competitive Market that Includes Regulated Transmission Operations and other Service Relationships, Final Report to the Energy Information Administration, DOE, July 2001.

Fumagalli, E., Black, E., Ilic, M., Vogelsang, I., ``A Reliability Insurance Scheme for the Electricity Distribution Grid’’, MIT E-lab MIT EL 01-001 WP, January 2001.

Ilic, M., Skantze, P., Vusdhiphan, P., ``California Electricity Troubles: Is Massachusetts Next?’’, MIT Tech Talk, January 2001.

Ilic, M., Skantze, P., Visudhiphan, P., ``Refrain (Pianissimo): California here we come?’’, Focus Section, Boston Globe , January 2001 .

Ilic, M., Yoon, Y., RTO Filing, Regarding Order 2000 Compliance Filing—Docket No..RT01—000, January 2001.

Ilic, M., ``Comments to the North American Electric Reliability Council’’ concerning the FERC Inquiry on Electric Reliability Issues for the Interstate Electric Transmission System, 2001.

Yoon, Y.T., Colisson, K., Arce, J.R., Ilic, M.D., ``Practical Implementation of a Congestion Cluster Pricing Method’’, MIT E-Lab WP EL 00-006, August 2000.

Yoon, Y.T., Colisson, K., Arce, J.R., Ilic, M.D., ``Practical Implementation of a Congestion Cluster Pricing Method’’, MIT E-Lab WP EL 00-006, August 2000.

Ilic, M., Collison, K., Yoon, Y.,  Development of Recommendations for the Collection of Information Yoon, Y.T., Collison, K., Arce, J.R., Ilic, M.D., ``Congestion Management Systems Methods: Comparison on 118 Bus System’’, MIT E-Lab WP EL 00-005, July 2000.

Saxena, A., Ilic, M., ``A Value-Based Approach to Voltage/Reactive Power Control’’, MIT E-Lab WP EL 00-004, May 2000.

Describing Reliability of the Electric Power Industry During Its Transition into a Competitive Market that Includes Regulated Transmission Operations and other Service Relationships, Interim Report to the Energy Information Administration, DOE, July 2000.

Skantze, P., Gubina, A., Ilic, M., ``Bid-based Stochastic Model for Electricity Prices: The Impact of Fundamental Drivers on Market Dynamics’’, MIT E-Lab report MIT-EL 00-004, November 2000.

Ilic, M., Fumagalli, E., Saxena, A., Arce, J.R., ``Reliability for Distributed Electric Power Systems of the Future: Interplay of Technology, Economics and Regulations’’, MIT E-Lab Technical Report, EL 00-004, August 2000.

Yoon, Y.T., Arce, J.R., Collison, K., Ilic, M.D., ``Implementation of Cluster-based Congestion Management Systems’’, MIT E-Lab WP EL 00-001, May 2000.

Cardell, J., M. Ilic and R.  Tabors, "Integrating Small Scale Distributed Generation into a Deregulated Market: Control Strategies and Price Feedback," Final Report to US Department of Energy, MIT TR 98-001, April 1998.

"A Competitive Electricity Industry," EMF Report 15, Stanford, CA, April 1998 (co-authored).

Ilic, M. and C.N.  Yu,  "Algorithms and a User's Manual for Simulations of Automatic Generation Control (AGC) of Large Electric Power Systems," MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems TR 97-003, May 1997.

Younes, Z. and M.  Ilic,  "Physical and Financial Rights for Imperfect Electric Power Markets," MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems WP 97-005, May 1997.

Ilic, M., E.H. Allen and Z.  Younes, "Providing for Transmission in Times of Scarcity: An ISO Cannot Do It All," MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems WP 97-003, May 1997.

Castillo, J. and M.  Ilic, "Assessment of Methods for Forecasting Electricity Demand," MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems, WP 97-002, March 1997.

Ilic, M., S.X. Liu, B.D.  Eidson, C.N.  Yu, E.H.  Allen and P.  Skantze, "A Unified Approach to Real-Time Control, Accounting, and Supporting Policies for Effective Energy Management Under Competition," Final Report  MIT Energy Laboratory EL 97-001, January 1997.

Ilic, M., "Benefits of Deregulation. But Who Pays for Reliability?," MIT Energy Laboratory EL-96 004, June 1996.

Lecinq, B. and M. Ilic, "Peak-load Pricing for Transmission in a Deregulated Industry," MIT Energy Laboratory, EL 96-005, June 1996.

Ilic, M., "Appendix B: Hierarchical Power Systems Control: Its Value in a Changing Industry," in Interconnected Operations Services: Defining System Requirements Under Open Access, Tampa Electric Company, March 1996.

Sections or Chapters in Edited Monographs or Similar Volumes

IEEE Proceedings, Special Issue on Electric Power Systems under Change, Invited Guest Editor (under preparation.)

Ilic, M. and J. Zaborszky, “Electric Power Systems Engineering.” Chapter 2 in Encyclopedia of Energy, Elsevier, 2004.

Yoon, Y., Ilic, M., ``Transmission Expansion in the New Environment’’, Chapter 5  in Power System Restructuring and Deregulation: Trading, Performance and Information Technology (Editor l. Lai), John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Ilic, M., ``Power-System Control’’, Chapter 12, Handbook for Power System Calculations, Mc-Graw Hill, 2000.

Awerbuch, S., Hyman, L.S., Vesey A., (Eds.), Unlocking the Benefits of Restructuring: A Blue Print for Transmission, Public Utilities Reports Inc. Vienna, VA, 1999.

Cardell, J. and M. Ilic, "The Control and Operation of Distributed Generaiton in a Competitive Electric Market," in Electric Power Systems Restructuring: Engineering and Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 453-518, 1998.

Younes, Z. and M. Ilic, "Transmission Networks and Market Power," in Electric Power Systems Restructuring: Engineering and Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 337-386, 1998.

Coxe, R. and M. Ilic, "System Planning Under Competition," in Electric Power Systems Restructuring: Engineering and Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 285-335, 1998.

Galiana, F.D. and M.D. Ilic, "Framework and Methods for the Analysis of Bilateral Transactions," in Electric Power Systems Restructuring: Engineering and Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 108-128, 1998.

Ilic, M. and F.D. Galiana, "Power Systems Operation: Old vs. New," in Electric Power Systems Restructuring: Engineering and Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 15-107, 1998.

Ilic, M., L. Hyman, E. Allen, R. Cordero and C.N. Yu, "Interconnected System Operations and Expansion in a Changing Industry: Coordination vs. Competition," in The Virtual Utility: Accounting, Technology & Competitive Aspects of the Emerging Industry, Shimon Awerbuch and Alistair Preston (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 307-355, series on Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, 1997.

Published Abstracts, Discussions, Reviews

Ilic, M., ``Technologies and Management Structures to Support Reliable and Efficient Operation over a Broad Range of Generation and Demand, November 15, 2003, First Energy, Inc. www site (also New Electricity Transmission Software (NETSS), Inc. WP03-01, December 2003).

Ilic, M., ``Engineering Needs for Enhancing Performance of the U.S. Electric Power Grid: Regulated Industry, Performance Measures and R\&D Needs, January 25, 2004, First Energy, Inc. www site (also NETSS WP04-01, January 2004).

Ilic, M., ``Regulatory/Market and Engineering Needs for Enhancing Performance of the U.S. Electric Power Grid: Alternative Architectures and Methods for Their Implementation, January 26,04 First Energy, Inc. www site (also NETSS WP04-02, January 2004).

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