Journal articles
P. Shinde, I. Aravena. A Bilevel Multistage Stochastic Self-scheduling Model with Indivisibilities for Trading in the Continuous Intraday Electricity Market. European Journal of Operations Research, forthcoming, 2025.
I. Aravena, C.C. Sun, R. Shi, S. Majumder, W. Yan, J.Y. Joo, L. Xie, J. Wang. Open Power System Datasets and Open Simulation Engines: A Survey Towards Machine Learning Applications. IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, forthcoming, 2025.
I. Aravena , D.K. Molzahn , S. Zhang , C.G. Petra , F.E. Curtis , S. Tu , A. Wächter , E. Wei , E. Wong, A. Gholami , K. Sun , X.A. Sun , S.T. Elbert , J.T. Holzer, A. Veeramany. Recent Developments in Security-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow: Overview of Challenge 1 in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition. Operations Research, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 1997-2014, September 2023.
C.G. Petra, I. Aravena. A Surrogate-Based Asynchronous Decomposition Technique for Realistic Security-Constrained Optimal Power Flow Problems. Operations Research, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 1925-2396, July 2023.
G. Patsakis, I. Aravena, D. Rajan, S.S. Oren. Formulations and Valid Inequalities for Optimal Black Start Allocation in Power Systems. Energy Systems, June 2023.
A. Musselman, I. Aravena. Optimizing power system restoration with damaged communications. Energy Systems, December 2022.
I. Aravena, S. Chapin, and C. Ponce. Decentralized Failure-Tolerant Optimization of Electric Vehicle Charging. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 4068-4078, September 2021.
I. Aravena, Q. Lete, A. Papavasiliou, and Y. Smeers. Transmission Capacity Allocation in Zonal Electricity Markets. Operations Research, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 1240-1255, April 2021. [Runner-up for 2021 ENRE Best Publication Award]
I. Aravena and A. Papavasilou. Asynchronous Lagrangian Scenario Decomposition. Mathematical Programming Computation, vol. 13, pp. 1-50, March 2021.
G. Patsakis, D. Rajan, I. Aravena, and S.S. Oren. Strong Mixed-Integer Formulations for Power System Islanding and Restoration. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 4880-4888, November 2019.
G. Patsakis, D. Rajan, I. Aravena, J. Rios, and S.S. Oren. Optimal black start allocation for power system restoration. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 6766-6776, May 2018.
I. Aravena and A. Papavasiliou. Renewable energy integration in zonal markets. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 1334-1349, March 2017.
E. Gil, I. Aravena, and R. Cardenas. Generation capacity expansion planning under hydro uncertainty using stochastic mixed integer programming and scenario reduction. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1838-1847, July 2015.
I. Aravena and E. Gil. Hydrological scenario reduction for stochastic optimization in hydrothermal power systems. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, no. 31, pp. 231-240, 2015.
E. Gil and I. Aravena. Evaluating the capacity value of wind power considering transmission and operational constraints. Energy Conversion and Management, no. 78, pp. 948–955, 2014.