Research Outcomes

Journal Papers

Dodds, P. S., Harris, K. D., & Danforth, C. M. ; "Limited Imitation Contagion on Random Networks: Chaos, Universality, and Unpredictability," Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110. No.15, pp. 158701-158706. (2013).

Koliba, C. Brune, N. Berman, M. and Zia, A.; "The eEnergy Vermont Collaborative: Bringing the Smart Grid to the State of Vermont," James M. Jeffords Policy Series. (2013).

Marshall, J.S., Hines, P.D., Zhang, J.D., Minervini, F. O., & Renjitham, S.; "Modeling the impact of electric vehicle charging on transient heat transfer around underground cables," Electric Power Systems Research. Vol. 97. pp. 76-83. (2013).

Bliss, C., Kloumann, I., Harris, K., Danforth, C., & Dodds, P.; "Twitter Reciprocal Reply Networks Exhibit Assortativity with respect to Happiness," Journal of Computational Science. Vol. 3. No. 5, pp. 388 – 397 (2012).

Bongard, J.C., Hines, P.D., Conger, D., Hurd, P., and Lu, Z. ; "Crowdsourcing Predictors of Behavioral Outcomes," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 43. No. 1. pp. 176-185. (2012).

Candon, S. & Marshall, J.S.; "Vortex ring deformation, capture and entrainment by a columnar vortex," Physics of Fluids. Vol. 24. No. 9. (2012).

Cotilla-Sanchez, E., Hines, P.D., and Danforth, C.M.; "Predicting Critical Transitions from Time Series Synchrophasor Data," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Vol. 3. No. 4. pp. 1832-1840. (2012).

Cotilla-Sanchez, E., Hines, P.D., Barrows, C., and Blumsack, S.; "Comparing the Topological and Electrical Structure of the North American Electric Power Infrastructure," IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 6. No. 4, pp. 616-626. (2012).

Eppstein, M.J. and Hines, P.D.; "A ‘Random Chemistry’ Algorithm for Identifying Collections of Multiple Contingencies that Initiate Cascading Failure," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems , Vol. 27, No. 3. (2012).

Eppstein, M.J., Horbar, J.D, Buzas, J.S., & Kauffman, S.A.; "Searching the clinical fitness landscape," PLoS ONE. Vol. 7. No. 11. pp. e49901. (2012).

Furhmann, A., Marshall, J.S., & Wu, J.-R.; "Effect of acoustic levitation force on aerodynamic particle removal from a surface," Applied Acoustics. Vol. 74. No.4. pp. 535-543. (2012).

Louisos,W. F., Hitt, D. L., & Danforth, C. M. ; "Chaotic Flow in a 2D Natural Convection Loop with Heat Flux Boundaries," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Vol. 61. pp. 565-576. (2013).

Maynard, A.B. & Marshall, J.S. ; "Force on a small particle attached to a plane wall in a Hiemenz straining flow.," Journal of Fluids Engineering. Vol. 134. No.11. (2012).

Qian, D., Marshall, J.S., and Frolik, J.; "Control analysis for solar panel dust mitigation using an electric curtain," Renewable Energy, Vol. 41, pp. 134-144 (2012).

Sears, J., Dowds, J., Aultman-Hall, L., and Hines, P.D. ; "Travel Demand and Charging Capacity for Electric Vehicles in Rural States: A Vermont Case Study," Transportation Research Record, Vol. 2287. pp. 27-36. (2012).

Yang, M., Li, S.Q., Liu, G., & Marshall, J.S. (2012); "Investigation of dynamic behavior of a particle-loaded single fiber using discrete element methods," In Wu, C. Y., Discrete Element Modelling of Particulate Media (103-112). Cambridge, UK: RSC Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-84973-503-2.

Zia, A., Kauffman, S. A., Niiranen, S. ; "The Prospects and Limits of Algorithms in Simulating Creative Decision Making," Making. Emergence: Complexity and Organization (E:CO) – An International Transdisciplinary Journal of Complex Social Systems. Vol. 14. No. 3. pp. 89-109. (2012).

Eppstein, M.J., Grover, D.K., Marshall, J.S., and Rizzo, D.M.; "An agent-based model to study market penetration of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles," Energy Policy, Vol. 39, pp. 3789-3802 (2011).

Li, S.-Q., Marshall, J.S., Liu, G., and Yao, Q.; "Adhesive particulate flow: the discrete element method and its application in energy and environmental engineering,," Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 633-668 (2011).

Marshall, J.S. and Sala, K.; "B stochastic Lagrangian approach for simulating the effect of turbulent mixing on algae growth rate in photobioreactors," Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 66, pp. 384-392 (2011).

Besaw, L.E., Rizzo, D.M., Eppstein, M.J., Pellon, M.B., Grover, D.K, Marshall, J.S.; "Up-scaling Agent-Based Discrete-Choice Transportation Models using Artificial Neural Networks," Transportation Research Board (TRB), Vol.10. No.3130, (2010).

Pellon, M.B, Eppstein, M.J., Besaw, L.E., Grover, D.K., Rizzo, D.M., and Marshall, J.S.; "An Agent-Based Model for Estimating Consumer Adoption of PHEV Technology," Transportation Research Board (TRB), Vol.10. No.3303, (2010).

Koliba, C., Brune, N., Berman, M., and Zia, A.; "Building and Governing the Smart Grid: Lessons from a Statewide Public-Private Partnership," The Journal of Federalism (submitted).

Faletra, M., Palmer, N., and Marshall, J.S., ; "Effects of clustering on opinion propagation within online social networks," Journal of Mathematical Sociology (submitted, 2012).

Koliba, C. and Zia, A.; "Governance Informatics: Using Computer Simulation Models to Deepen Situational Awareness and Governance Design Considerations," DeSouza, K. and Johnston, E. editors. Policy Informatics. Routledge Press, Book chapter (accepted for publication).

Koliba, C., Brune, N., Berman, M., and Zia, A.; "The Salience and Complexity of Building and Governing the Smart Grid: Lessons from a Statewide Public-Private Partnership ," Publius (Submitted).

Conference Papers

Burnham, L., Brune, N., and Koliba; "It Takes a Village: an Innovative Partnership to Drive Energy Security in Vermont," NDIA Environment, Energy Security and Sustainability Symposium conference.

Frolik, J. and Hines, P.D.; "Random access, electric vehicle charge management," 1st IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference, Greenville, SC, March 4-8, 2012.

Krupa, J.S., Chatterjee, S., Eldridge, E., Rizzo, D.M., and Eppstein, M.J. ; "Evolutionary Feature Selection for Classification: A Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle Adoption Application," accepted for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2012.

Frolik, J., Seier, A., Palombini, C. and Lentine, A.; "Dynamic communication control for μgrid agents," IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) Europe Conference. Berlin, Germany, October 14-17, 2012.

Frolik, J. and Hines, P.; "Urgency-driven, plug-in electric vehicle charging," IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) Europe Conference, Berlin, Germany, October 14-17, 2012..

Hilshey, A., Rezaei, P., Hines, P., and Frolik, J.; "Electric vehicle charging: Transformer impacts and smart, decentralized solutions," IEEE Power and Energy System General Meeting, San Diego CA, July 22-26, 2012.

Hines, P. ; "Estimating Cascading Failure Risk with Random Chemistry.," Symposium at DIMACS/CCICADA Workshop on Cascading Failures of Power Transmission Systems: Models and Algorithms. Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Feb. 2013.

Parmer, C., Cotilla-Sanchez, E., Thornquist, H.K., and Hines, P.D.; "Developing a Dynamic Model of Cascading Failure for High Performance Computing using Trilinos," Proc. of HiPCNA-PG 2011, Seattle, 2011.

Hines, P. ; "Random Chemistry and Dual Graphs: Two ways to understand cascading failures in power grids.," Symposium at SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering. Boston, MA. Feb. 2013.

Chesnutt, J.K.W., & Marshall, J.S. ; "Simulation of particle separation on an inclined electric curtain with a discrete element method," Proceedings of the Electrostatics Society of America. Cambridge, ON, Canada. 2012.

Koliba, C., Brune, N., Berman, M., & Zia, A.; "The Salience and Complexity of Building and Governing the Smart Grid: Lessons from a Statewide Public-Private Partnership," American Society for Public Administration. New Orleans, LA. 2013.

Koliba, C., & Zia, A.; "Governance Informatics: Using Computer Simulation Models to Deepen Situational Awareness and Governance Design Considerations," 8th Annual TransAtlantic Dialogue. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2012.

Manukyan, N., Eppstein, M.J., Horbar, J.D., Leahy, K.A., Kenny, M.J., Mukherjee, S., & Rizzo, D.M.; "Evolutionary Mining for Multivariate Associations in Large Time-Varying data sets: a Healthcare Network Application.," In T. Soule (Ed). Proceedings of the fourteenth international conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation conference companion (1547-1548). New York, New York: ACM. 2012.

Mukherjee, S., & Eppstein, M.J.; "Differential Evolution of Constants in Genetic Programming Improves Efficacy and Bloat," In T. Soule (Ed). Proceedings of the fourteenth international conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation conference companion (625-626). New York, New York: ACM. 2012.

Udaykumar, H.S., Marshall, J.S., Vigmostad, S., & Chandran, K.B. ; "Multi-scale modeling of blood flow in cardiovascular prosthetic devices," Symposium at Multiscale Modeling (MSM) Consortium Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland. Oct. 2012.

Myers, O., Wu, J.R., & Marshall, J.S.; "Dust removal using the electric curtain technology relevant to the NASA space exploration project," Proceedings of the Electrostatics Society of America. Cambridge, ON, Canada. 2012.

Research Grants

Hines, P. (PI), Marshall, J.S., Frolik, J.; "Electric vehicles and their impact on the electric power delivery system," University of Vermont Transportation Research Center, 6/1/2012 – 5/31/2013..

Marshall, J.S. (PI), Porter, D.; "Energy efficiency performance assessment for historic buildings," National Park Service (P11AC71049), 8/5/2011 – 9/30/2013.

Marshall, J.S.; "Optimizing turbulent mixing for microalgae growth," NASA EPSCoR, 9/1/2011 – 8/30/2012.

Marshall, J.S.; "Facility to test novel methods for algae growth rate enhancement by fluid mixing," US Dept of Energy (via Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund), 8/2011 – 12/2012.

Marshall, J.S.; "Collaboration on workforce development for modern electrical power systems," Sandia National Laboratories, 4/1/2011 – 11/30/2011.