Intelligent system applications to power systems

The authors describe how the use of intelligent systems (IS) is an opportunity to add new dimensions to the field of computer applications in power systems. A number of practical power system problems require logic reasoning, heuristic search, perception, and/or the ability to handle uncertainties; IS tools can be part of their solution. The authors describe how AI-related application areas, such as expert systems, fuzzy logic, neural networks and genetic algorithms, can all be applied in such intelligent systems.