Science and Technology

Science and Engineering provides an international channel for the publication of theoretical and experimental studies. The journal publishes issues of rigorous and original contributions devoted to a wide range of subfields in the engineering and sciences.

Belkacem Mahdad

Editorial Board Member of Science and Technology

Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Biskra University, Algeria

Research Areas

Power system planning and control

Publications: Journals

[1]  Belkacem Mahdad, Tarek Bouktir, Kamel Srairi , "Dynamic Compensation of the Reactive Energy using a Fuzzy Controller, " Leonardo Electronic Journal of Practices and Technologies, Issue 7, July-December 2005, pp 1-16, ISSN 1583-1078.
[2]  Belkacem Mahdad, Tarek Bouktir, Kamel Srairi, "The Impact of Unified Power Flow Controller in Power Flow Regulation, " Journal of Electrical Engineering (JEE), Volume 6(1)/2006, pages: 03-09, 2006, Romaine.
[3]  Belkacem Mahdad, Kamel Srairi, Tarek Bouktir, M. E. H. Benbouzid, "Modeling of FACTS devices with efficient location to improve voltage stability, " Association for the Advancements of Modeling and Simulation Techniques in Enterprises ‘AMSE Journals’. Vol. 62, n°3, 2007.
[4]  Belkacem Mahdad, T. Bouktir, K. Srairi, "Methodology Based in Practical Fuzzy Rules Coordinated with Asymmetric Dynamic Compensation Applied to the Unbalanced Distribution Network, " International Review of Electrical Engineering (IREE), vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 145-153 (2007), ISSN 1827- 6660, Praise Worthy Prize, Italy.
[5]  Belkacem Mahdad, Tarek Bouktir, Kamel Srairi "Genetic Algorithm and Fuzzy Rules Applied to Enhance the Optimal Power Flow with Consideration of FACTS, ", International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR), Vol. 4, Issue. 3, pp. 229-238, 2008.
[6]  Tarek Bouktir, Linda Slimani, Belkacem Mahdad, "Optimal Power Dispatch for Large Scale Power System using stochastic search algorithms, ", International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1-10, 2008.
[7]  Belkacem Mahdad, K. Srairi, T. Bouktir, "Optimal Coordination and Penetration of Distributed Generation with Shunt FACTS Using GA/Fuzzy Rules" Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Korea, Vol. 4, No.1, pp. 1~12, March 2009.
[8]  Belkacem Mahdad, T. Bouktir, K. Srairi, "OPF with Environmental Constraints with SVC Controller using Decomposed Parallel GA: Application to the Algerian Network" Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Korea, Vol. 4, No.1, pp. 55~65, March 2009.
[9]  Belkacem Mahdad, T. Bouktir, K. Srairi, "Strategy based PSO for Dynamic Control of UPFC to Enhance Power System Security, " Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Korea, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 315~322, September 2009.
[10]  Belkacem Mahdad, T. Bouktir, K. Srairi, and M. EL. Benbouzid "Optimal Power Flow with Discontinous Fuel Cost Functions Using Decomposed GA Coordinated with Shunt FACTS, " Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Korea, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 315~322, December 2009.
[11]  Belkacem Mahdad, T. Bouktir, K. Srairi, "Optimal Power Flow for Large-Scale Power System with Shunt FACTS using Efficient Parallel GA, " Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems (IJEPES), Elsevier Vol.32, Issue 5, pp. 507-517, June 2010.
[12]  Belkacem Mahdad, T. Bouktir, K. Srairi, and M. EL. Benbouzid, "Dynamic Strategy Based Fast Decomposed GA Coordinated with FACTS devices to enhance the Optimal Power Flow, " Journal of Energy Conversion and Management (IJECM), Elsevier, vol. 51, Issue 7, pp. 1370-1380, July 2010.
[13]  Belkacem Mahdad, T. Bouktir, K. Srairi, and M. EL. Benbouzid "Economic Power Dispatch with Discontinuos Fuel Cost Functions using Improved Parallel PSO, " Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Korea, March 2010.