Control of Power Plants and Power Systems (1995)

These proceedings contain the papers presented at the IFAC Symposium on Control of Power Plants and Power Systems (SIPOWER'95) held in Cancún, México on 6-8 December 1995. The aim of the symposium was to lessen the gap between academic groups and industry by using the obvious interaction between power plants and power networks and the tools common to both to foster communication and encourage a more synergetic relationship.

The symposium was divided equally between power plants and power systems and 104 papers were presented, representing all five continents and reflecting the international nature of the meeting. The technical sessions were organized following two main criteria: the technology used and the object being studied. Many papers fell into both categories and various topics were covered, but artificial intelligence was by far the most pervasive. There were also two plenary sessions on Control Centers and on Power Plant Control, an invited session on Knowledge Data Based Systems and finally a plenary talk on Information Processing Technologies - all these are included in this volume.