Preface

What are expert systems? What are their purposes? What are the impacts resulting from their implementations?

This book aims to answer these questions and more. Written by experts in the field, chapters cover various concepts related to expert systems, including computational intelligence, signal processing, real time systems, systems optimization, electric power systems, support vector machines, fault diagnosis, asset management, and smart cities. Chapters systematically discuss the thematic concepts of expert systems and present a broad range of technical and theoretical information. As such, in addition to being of interest to a professional audience, the book is useful as a text for undergraduate and graduate courses. The prerequisites for understanding this book's content are basic, requiring only elementary knowledge of computation.

The first part of this book (Chaps. 1 – 5) examines the various uses and applications of expert systems. These include support decision systems, alert diagnosis systems, rule-based expert systems applied on heterogeneous data sources, detection of insects in coffee agriculture, influence of linear/cyclic polyethylenes on the electric percolation of microemulsions, and proposition of multi-agent for modeling smart parking.

The second part of this book (Chaps. 5 – 8) presents solutions that comprise technologies of expert systems in electric power systems. It describes topics related to efficient asset management practices for power systems using expert procedures, intelligent systems for estimation of gases dissolved in insulating mineral oil from physicochemical tests, and systems based on computational intelligence to estimate failure rates in power transformers.

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**Chapter 7 85**

**Chapter 8 101**

Efficient Asset Management Practices for Power Systems Using

Computational Intelligence to Estimate Fault Rates in Power

*by Danilo Spatti, Luisa H.B. Liboni, Marcel Araújo, Renato Bossolan* 

*by Danilo Spatti, Luisa H.B. Liboni, Marcel Araújo, Renato Bossolan* 

Expert Systems

*and Bruno Vitti*

Transformers

*and Bruno Vitti*

**Ivan Nunes da Silva and Rogério Andrade Flauzino** University of São Paulo, Brazil

Section 1

Application in Support

Decision Systems

**1**

Section 1
