Improving Distribution Systems has been strongly driven by advances in automation and network data collection. This is reflected in improvements in quality of service and product, and reliability in service to consumers ...

This thesis presents a new methodology for the classification and substitution of power transformers in substations. The thesis proposes the use of the Operational Vulnerability Indicator (OVI), which consists of two ...

Multicore processors allow applications to explore thread-level parallelism in order to enable improvements on the elapsed time. The sharing of the memory subsystem and the discrepancy between the speeds of processors and ...

The need to use energy to move the various sectors of countries such as the transportation sector (air, sea, land), residential, commercial and industrial shows a direct relationship between economic growth and internal ...

Graphics processing Units (GPUs) have revolutionized high performance programming.They reduced the cost of parallel hardware, however, programming these devices is still a challenge. Programmers are not able (yet) to write ...