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This paper reports on the specification of a fuzzy logic based knowledge modeling concept for the development of a decision support system (DSS) christened “Power System Outage-plan Validator” (PSOV), which is expected to assist utility engineers in the medium-term outage planning of the Nigerian Electric Power System (NEPS). The object-oriented (OO) development concept for PSOV is tailored to facilitate intemet/web-enabled interactive decision making in the medium-term (yearly) generation outage planning process of an increasingly deregulated power market, with new stakeholders and structural components. The varying types of uncertainties, ambiguities and contradictions in the semi-structured problem domain necessitate a robust modeling system for knowledge analysis and user interface development, which fuzzy logic provides.
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Egwaikhide, I.O. (2000). Fuzzy Modeling of Uncertainty in a Decision Support System for Electric Power System Planning. In: Hampel, R., Wagenknecht, M., Chaker, N. (eds) Fuzzy Control. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 6. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1841-3_35
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