High-impact, low-probability events that cause significant annual damages seriously threaten the health of distribution networks. The effects these have made expansion planning for systems something beyond traditional reliability criteria, so there is an ever-increasing need modifications in current approaches and focusing on resilience new attitude dealing with distributed generation sources n...

When communications networks gain increased exibility and the network structure becomes a variable, network planning has to consider more than just capacity dimensioning. Because this planning task is and will be too complex to be solved within a single algorithm, the task has to be partioned. To prevent from suboptimal solutions partioning has to be done carefully and under consideration of th...