Part I contains introductory concepts. Chapter 1 provides the motivation
of the book, some philosophical foundations of the art of modelling physical
systems and defines the general mathematical model used for describing
the behavior of power systems. Chapter 2 introduces the structure and the
features of a software package for power system analysis while Chapter 3
discusses on the concept of scripting applied to power system analysis. The
latter chapter also attempts to provide general guidelines for thinking power
systems analysis in terms of computer programming. I hope that the results
can be useful for Ph.D. students that, at the very end, will be the only readers
of this book that have time to implement their own software applications.
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