THE APPLICATION OF MODEL-BASED REASONING WITHIN A DECISION-SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR PROTECTION ENGINEERS

This paper discusses model based reasoning applied to protection syste m performance analysis. Appropriate modelling and reasoning methodolog ies are indicated, and their advantages considered, The necessity of i ncorporating protection system performance analysis within a decision support system (DSS), designed for utility protection engineers, is pr esented, Alarm processing and fault diagnosis ape demonstrated as furt her requirements of the DSS for protection engineers, within which kno wledge based reasoning and model based reasoning are combined to provi de the overall functionality required.