This file explains the use of the material related to the paper:

"Redispatching active and reactive powers using a limited number 
of control actions."

by F. Capitanescu and L. Wehenkel

We provide the data and detailed simulation results of two systems:
a 60-bus system (a modified version of the Nordic32 system) and a 
118-bus system (the IEEE118 bus system). 

All files relative to a given system and a given OPF problem have been 
archived. For instance, the archive 60bus-PL.zip contains the files 
related to the solution of the minimum power losses problem in the 
60-bus system. 

We also provide a document describing the data format of our OPF tool. 

Finally, we provide the OPF program used in these simulations, but 
without any warranty, especially if other objective functions 
are used except of those for which we provide numerical results. 
This program runs under Linux (actually we run it under Windows 
XP by using Cygwin). 
Note that all interior-point algorithm parameters have been coded 
in this version of the program in "hard". In the future we will 
provide a version where the user will have the freedom to choose 
itself appropriate values of these parameters.
You could contact Florin Capitanescu if you encounter problems in 
using this tool.

The description of the codes appearing in the data files names 
is as follows.

Files with extension ".dat" represent data files.

Files with extension ".res" represent OPF numerical results files 
(i.e. listing of the OPF run).

Files with extension ".seq" provide the sequence of control actions 
for a given problem using the variant B of the proposed approach. 

PL - refers to the OPF problem of minimum power losses.

LS - refers to the OPF problem of minimum load shedding cost to 
remove thermal overloads.

For instance the file 60bus-OPFLNC-PL.dat is base case data file 
of the 60-bus system for the minimum power losses OPF problem.
The file 60bus-OPFLNC-PL.res contains the convergence details 
of the conventional OPF using the 60bus-OPFLNC-PL.dat data 
file.