Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy CESI, Italy Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland ENEL Distribuzione, Italy Wakayama National College of Technology, Japan, Conference code: 73346, Export Date: 25 April 2012, Source: Scopus, Art. 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