Journal articles
G. Patsakis, I. Aravena, D. Rajan, S.S. Oren. Formulations and Valid Inequalities for Optimal Black Start Allocation in Power Systems. Energy Systems, forthcoming.
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.
Discussion papers
C. Petra, I. Aravena. Solving realistic security-constrained optimal power flow problems. arXiv, October 2021.
I. Aravena, D. Rajan, G. Patsakis, S.S. Oren and J. Rios. A scalable mixed-integer decomposition approach for optimal power system restoration. Optimization Online, January 2019.
Book chapters
I. Aravena, A. Papavasiliou and A. Papalexopoulos. A distributed computing architecture for the large-scale integration of renewable energy and distributed resources in smart grids. In Wen-Jyi Hwang (Eds.), Recent Progress in Parallel and Distributed Computing, pp. 21-44, IntechOpen, Rijeka, Croatia, 2017.