Distribution networks were conceived to distribute the energy received from transmission and subtransmission supply passive loads. This approach, however, is not valid anymore due presence of distributed generation, which mainly based on renewable energies, increased number plug-in electric vehicles that are connected at this voltage level for domestic use. In paper ongoing transition distribut...

Abstract This paper shares a vision that sustainable water supply requires resilient infrastructures which are presumably in the centralized control and decentralized execution (CCDE) mode with multiscale resilience. The CCDE should be planned based on structure of infrastructures, systems divided into number hierarchically organized subsystems. allows independent all subsystems under normal si...

Many modern technological systems, such as cyber-physical systems, communication, transportation and social networks, smart grids, sensing and surveillance systems are informationally decentralized. A key feature of informationally decentralized systems is that decisions are made by multiple decision makers that have access to different information. This feature violates the fundamental assumpt...

The Centralized Conferencing Manipulation Protocol (CCMP) allows a Centralized Conferencing (XCON) system client to create, retrieve, change, and delete objects that describe a centralized conference. CCMP is a means to control basic and advanced conference features such as conference state and capabilities, participants, relative roles, and details. CCMP is a stateless, XML-based, client serve...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) allows to control the available network resources by an intelligent and centralized authority in order to optimize traffic flows in a flexible manner. However, centralized control may face scalability issues when the network size or the number of traffic flows increases. Also, a centralized controller may form a single point of failure, thereby affecting the ne...

The current state-of-practice in structural control uses the centralized Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) approach to determine optimal control forces. The centralized architecture of the LQR control approach does not easily scale to complex systems characterized by high sensor and actuator densities. In this paper, a decentralized control approach is proposed for application in structural cont...