Author(s)

Zita A. Vale

Abstract

SPARSE - A Prolog Based Application for Portuguese Transmission Network : Some Important Aspects for Practical use Zita A. Vale Luiz Faria, Carlos Ramos, António Silva Polytechnique Institute of Porto/Institute of Engineering/DEI Rua de S. Tomé - 4200 Porto – Portugal Email: [lff | csr | asilva]@dei.isep.ipp.pt M. Fernanda Fernandes, Couto Rosado, Albino In this paper, the authors present an overview of SPARSE, a Prolog based application for the Control Centres of the Portuguese Transmission Electrical Network. The experience acquired during the development of SPARSE and during its integration in the Control Centre allows to establish a set of factors of high importance for the success of the final application. The practical use of applications based on Artificial Intelligence techniques depends on a wide range of factors and not only on the intelligent application itself. These factors include the characteristics of the user interface and the means provided for knowledge maintenance that a

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