Title
Knowledge-Based Systems for Power System Control Centres: Validation and Verification
Abstract
The activity of electrical network Control Centres is supported by a large number of computer applications. However, Control Centre operators usually have to face critical situations without the support of efficient decision support tools. During the last years, electrical utilities began to install intelligent applications in their Control Centres. These applications are mainly intended to provide operators with assistance especially during incident situations. The successful use of such applications is very dependent from the ability to guarantee that its performance is correct and efficient, even under incident conditions. This only can be guarantied after a Verification and Validation phase. This paper addresses the Verification and Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems. The paper deals with the Verification and Validation of SPARSE, a Knowledge-Based System to assist operators of Portuguese Transmission Control Centres in incident analysis and power restoration. A specific tool (VERITAS) has been developed to verify SPARSE Knowledge Base. VERITAS is a generic, domain independent KBS verification tool, it performs Knowledge Base structural analysis in order to detect knowledge anomalies. It has been successfully applied not only to SPARSE but also to other KBS.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1998
EUROVAV
verification,validation,control centres,knowledge-based systems,real time
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zita A. Vale139085.67
Carlos Ramos2178.96
Jorge Santos3153.38
M. Fernanda Fernandes4124.53
Couto Rosado5124.53
A. Marques63410.23