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Leigh Tesfatsion is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, particularly focusing on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research spans interdisciplinary areas, including economics and econometrics, global and planetary change, management science and operations research, and automotive engineering.

The main topics of their work emphasize electric power system optimization, land use and ecosystem services, optimal power flow distribution, smart grid energy management, transportation and mobility innovations, demographic modeling and climate adaptation, and complex systems and time series analysis.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Leigh Tesfatsion include:

  • Locational Marginal Pricing: A Fundamental Reconsideration, 2024, IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy
  • Methodological Issues of Spatial Agent-Based Models, 2020, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  • An ERCOT test system for market design studies, 2020, Applied Energy
  • A Customer-Centric Approach to Bid-Based Transactive Energy System Design, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
  • A Consensus-Based Transactive Energy Design for Unbalanced Distribution Networks, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Frequently collaborating coauthors include Li An, Eric Shook, Swathi Battula, Zhaoyu Wang, and Steven M. Manson. These partnerships reflect a collaborative research approach influencing topics across power systems and smart grid technologies.

Publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  • IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy
  • Applied Energy
  • IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
  • IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Best Publications

  • Agent-Based Computational Economics: A Constructive Approach to Economic Theory

    Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Agent-Based Computational Economics: Growing Economies From the Bottom Up

    Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 2: Agent-Based Computational Economics

    Leigh Tesfatsion;Kenneth L. Judd

  • Agent-based computational economics

    Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Modeling Macroeconomies As Open-Ended Dynamic Systems of Interacting Agents

    Blake Lebaron;Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Market Power And Efficiency In A Computational Electricity Market With Discriminatory Double-Auction Pricing

    James Nicolaisen;Valentin Petrov;Leigh S. Tesfatsion

  • Agent-Based Computational Economics: Modeling Economies As Complex Adaptive Systems

    Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Introduction to the special issue on agent-based computational economics

    Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Development of Open Source Software for Power Market Research: The AMES Test Bed

    Hongyan Li;Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Dynamic Testing of Wholesale Power Market Designs: An Open-Source Agent-Based Framework

    Junjie Sun;Leigh Tesfatsion

  • How Economists Can Get Alife

    Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Preferential Partner Selection in an Evolutionary Study of Prisoner's Dilemma

    Daniel Ashlock;Mark D. Smucker;E. Ann Stanley;Leigh S. Tesfatsion

  • Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma with Choice and Refusal of Partners

    E.A. Stanley;Daniel Ashlock;Leigh Tesfatsion

  • An Agent-Based Computational Laboratory for Testing the Economic Reliability of Wholesale Power Market Designs

    Deddy P. Koesrindartoto;Junjie Sun;Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma with Choice and Refusal of Partners

    E. Ann Stanley;Dan Ashlock;Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Appendix A A Guide for Newcomers to Agent-Based Modeling in the Social Sciences⁎

    Robert Axelrod;Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Time-Varying Linear Regression Via Flexible Least Squares

    Robert E. Kalaba;Leigh Tesfatsion

  • A Trade Network Game with Endogenous Partner Selection

    Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Agent-Based Modeling: The Right Mathematics for the Social Sciences?

    Paul L. Borrill;Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Structure, behavior, and market power in an evolutionary labor market with adaptive search☆

    Leigh Tesfatsion

  • Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 2: Agent-Based Computational Economics (Handbook of Computational Economics)

    Leigh Tesfatsion;Kenneth L. Judd

Frequent Co-Authors

Chen-Ching Liu
Chen-Ching Liu Virginia Tech
Anthony S. Wexler
Anthony S. Wexler University of California, Davis
Robert Axelrod
Robert Axelrod University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William J. Gutowski
William J. Gutowski Iowa State University
Keith C. Clarke
Keith C. Clarke University of California, Santa Barbara
Xinyue Ye
Xinyue Ye Texas A&M University

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