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Ivan Nunes da Silva was born in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil, in 1967. He graduated in computer science and electrical engineering from the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil, in 1991 and 1992, respectively. He received both an MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Campinas (UNI-CAMP), Brazil, in 1995 and 1997, respectively. Currently, he is Full Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP). His research

interests are within the fields of power system and computational intelligence. He is also associate editor of the *International Journal on Power System Optimization* and editor-in-chief of the *Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems.* He has published more than 400 papers in congress proceedings and international journals and authored several book chapters.

Rogerio Andrade Flauzino was born in Franca, Brazil, in 1978. He received an undergraduate degree and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, in 2007. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo. His research interests include artificial neural networks,

computational intelligence, fuzzy inference systems, and power systems.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Preface XI**

Application in Support Decision Systems **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 27**

**Chapter 4 37**

**Chapter 5 53**

Application in Electrical Power Systems **67**

**Chapter 6 69**

A Case Study of Wavelets and SVM Application in Coffee Agriculture:

Detecting Cicadas Based on Their Acoustic and Image Patterns

*Alexandre Moraes Cardoso, Douglas Henrique Bottura Maccagnan,* 

Artificial Intelligence Models to Predict the Influence of Linear and Cyclic Polyethers on the Electric Percolation of Microemulsions

Increasing the Efficiency of Rule-Based Expert Systems Applied

*by Juan Ignacio Guerrero Alonso, Enrique Personal, Antonio Parejo,* 

A Conceptual Framework for Modeling Smart Parking

*by Andressa dos Santos Nicolau, Marcelo Carvalho dos Santos,* 

*Roberto Schirru, Mario Cesar Mello Massa de Campos* 

*Renato Pagotto Bossolan and Bruno Augusto Trevisam*

Mineral Oil from Physicochemical Tests

*Victor Henrique Cabral Pinheiro, Filipe Santana Moreira do Desterro,* 

Intelligent System for the Estimation of Gases Dissolved in Insulating

*by Ivan Nunes da Silva, Rogério Andrade Flauzino, Danilo Hernane Spatti,* 

*by Manuel Alonso-Ferrer, Gonzalo Astray Dopazo and Juan Carlos Mejuto*

*by João Paulo Lemos Escola, Rodrigo Capobianco Guido,* 

*João Marcelo Ribeiro and José Ricardo Ferreira Cardoso*

on Heterogeneous Data Sources

Alert Diagnostic System: SDA

*and Alexandre Wanderley*

*by Brahim Lejdel*

**Section 2**

*S. García, Antonio Martín and Carlos León*

### Contents


**Chapter 7 85** Efficient Asset Management Practices for Power Systems Using Expert Systems *by Danilo Spatti, Luisa H.B. Liboni, Marcel Araújo, Renato Bossolan and Bruno Vitti*

#### **Chapter 8 101**

Computational Intelligence to Estimate Fault Rates in Power Transformers *by Danilo Spatti, Luisa H.B. Liboni, Marcel Araújo, Renato Bossolan and Bruno Vitti*

Preface

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

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

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

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

**Ivan Nunes da Silva and Rogério Andrade Flauzino**

University of São Paulo,

Brazil

from their implementations?

failure rates in power transformers.

of computation.

parking.
