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During the past two and a half decades the theory of optimal control has found an increasing number of applications in electric power systems engineering. This is in large measure due to the advent of large-scale digital computers. Problems that earlier were quite impossible to solve numerically owing to time constraints can now be solved with relative ease. However, as is pointed out in, for example, Chapter 3 of this book, there are still problems in electric power systems engineering that are simply too large for economic solution even by large digital computers. Hence, there is a need for new and faster algorithms than the ones currently available.
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Christensen, G.S., El-Hawary, M.E., Soliman, S.A. (1987). Introduction. In: Optimal Control Applications in Electric Power Systems. Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Science and Engineering, vol 35. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2085-0_1
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