ISSDA an intelligent substation switching decision aid

The application developed by the authors is an investigation of the description of a technical system, an electric power substation, using a knowledge-based approach. The purpose is essentially tutorial, it intends to present a practical problem and examine how the expert system methodology can be implemented. In the present example, the authors rather speak about knowledge based system than expert systems, since the rules are perfectly known, and are not the expression of an expert of the specific application domain