Michael Guarisco

Former member of the Transportation & Production Networks group.

Project: Resource Management in Electricity Networks.

Supervised Student Projects

• "A Subgradient Technique for Resource Management in Electricity Networks". Master thesis by Samuel Zürcher, spring semester 2009, with Marco Laumanns.
• "Solving an Average Cost per Stage Problem for Resource Management in Electricity Networks". Term project by Samuel Zürcher, autumn semester 2008, with Marco Laumanns.
• "Risk-Averse Resource Management in Electricity Networks". Term project by Maria Paschalina Moschovitis, spring semester 2008, with Marco Laumanns.
• "Analysis of numerical methods for minimizing expected values". Diploma thesis by Michael Bürgisser, summer term 2007, with Prof. H.-J. Lüthi.
• "Resource Management for Maintenance Work in Electricity Networks". Bachelor thesis by Stefan Ravizza, summer term 2007, with Christian Balderer.
• "Network reliability problems with applications in electricity networks". Master thesis by Christian Balderer, winter term 2006/07, with Rico Zenklusen.
• "Cross-Border Trading und Engpassmanagement". Term project by Felix Rubin, summer term 2006, with Max Fehr.
• "A finite difference algorithm for solving stochastic control problems". Term project by Martin Mevissen, winter term 2005/06, with Vania Dos Santos Eleuterio and Martina Wilhelm.
• "A Model for the Three-Portfolios Matching Problem". Term project by Christian Vögeli, winter term 2004/05, with Jörg Doege.

Publications

• Guarisco M., Friedrich C., Balderer C., Laumanns M., Zdrallek M. (2009): "A grid operation model: Resource demand for an adequate incident management in high-, medium-, and low-voltage grids." International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 31(9):504-511. (DOI)
• Friedrich C., Guarisco M., Laumanns M., Zdrallek M. (2009): "A Model to Optimise the Organisation of Grid Operation." Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2009), Prague, Czech Republic, June 8-11, 2009
• Balderer C., Guarisco M., Laumanns M., Zenklusen R. (2009): "Repair strategies for minimising the risk of cascading failures in electricity networks." International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 5(1/2):51-71. (DOI, URL)
• Guarisco M., Friedrich C., Laumanns M., Zdrallek M. (2008): "A Grid Operation Model: Resource Demand For An Adequate Quality Of Supply." Proceedings of the 16th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC 2008), Glasgow, Scotland, 14-18 July, 2008 (PDF)
• Balderer C., Guarisco M., Laumanns M., Zenklusen R. (2007): "Repair strategies for minimizing the risk of cascading failures in electricity networks". European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS) 2007, Satellite Workshop: Critical Infrastructures as Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, October 1-5, 2007 (PDF, URL)
• Friedrich C., Guarisco M., Kueppers S., Schweer A. (2007): "Grid Operation in the Contrary Regulation Challenge of Cost Reduction and Supply Quality." Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2007), Vienna, Austria, 21-24 May 2007 (PDF)

Conference Talks

• "A Markov decision model for strategic resource management of power grid operators", with Marco Laumanns, Rico Zenklusen. 24th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIV), Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-14, 2010.
• "A Grid Operation Model: Resource Demand For An Adequate Quality Of Supply", with Catharina Friedrich, Marco Laumanns, Markus Zdrallek. 16th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC 2008), Glasgow, Scotland, July 14-18, 2008.
• "High confidence level solutions for portfolio optimization", with Fabian Chudak. International Scientific Annual Conference "Operations Research 2005", Bremen, Germany, September 7-9, 2005.