Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Ph.D.

Professor

 

 

Address for Contact:

 
            Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

            Electrical Engineering Graduate Program

PEE-COPPE/UFRJ

            P.O. Box 68504

            Rio de Janeiro – RJ

            21941-972

            BRAZIL

            Phone: +55-21-2562-8621

            Fax:     +55-21-2562-8627

            E-mail: alex@coep.ufrj.br


1.      Personal Data

2.      Educational Record

3.      Professional Appointments

4.      Teaching

5.      Research Activities

6.      Service Activities

7.      Citation Report

 

1.      Personal Data

 

Name: Alexandre Pinto Alves da Silva

Date of Birth: December 15th, 1962

Citizenship: Brazilian

 

2.      Educational Record

 

University

Dates

Degree

Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

80-84

B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering)

Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

85-87

M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering)

University of Waterloo

88-92

Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering)

 

3.      Professional Appointments

 

3.a Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Record

 

            3.a1 Academic Appointments:

            Full Professor, August 22nd, 2002 – Present

            3.a2 Administrative Appointments:

            Department Chairman, 2005 – 2006

            Power Systems Laboratory Director, 2002 – Present

 

3.b Federal Engineering School at Itajubá (UNIFEI) Record

 

            3.b1 Academic Appointments:

            Associate Professor, 1993

            Full Professor, 1994 – 2002

            3.b2 Administrative Appointments:

            Faculty Senator, 1994 – 2002

Professional Graduate Program (Power Systems) Coordinator, 1998 – 1999

Intelligent Systems Laboratory Director, 1995 – 2002

 

 

3.c Other Professional Appointments

 

            Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, USA, 1999

Visiting Assistant Professor, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992

            Researcher, Electric Energy Research Institute (CEPEL), Brazil, 1987-1988

 

3.d Consulting or Professional Practice

 

Professor Alves da Silva has been a consultant and has developed projects and products to the following Brazilian utilities: FURNAS, ELETROBRAS, CEMIG, ITAIPÚ Binational, PETROBRAS, ONS (Brazilian ISO), COPEL, and LIGHT, since 1987.

 

4.      Teaching

 

Current Courses:

 

-          Power System Operation (graduate)

-          Pattern Recognition (graduate)

-          Evolutionary Computation (graduate)

-          Probability and Statistics (undergraduate)

 

Other Courses:

 

-          Power System Analysis (undergraduate)

-          Power System Dynamics and Control (undergraduate)

-          Computation Methods (undergraduate)

-          Automatic Control (undergraduate)

-          System Identification (undergraduate)

-          Time Series Analysis (undergraduate)

-          Intelligent System Application to Power Systems (graduate)

-          Artificial Intelligence (graduate)

 

 

 

5.      Research Activities

 

5.a Research Areas

 

            Electric Power and Energy Systems

            Pattern Recognition

            Neural Networks and Forecasting

            Data Mining

 

5.b Student Research Supervision

 

            5.b.1 Chaired Doctoral Degrees

 

 

Student Name

Thesis Title

1.

J.C. Stacchini de Souza

(1996)

Data Debugging in Real-Time Supervision of Power Systems Via Pattern Recognition Techniques

2.

C. Ferreira

(1998)

Dynamic Load Modeling Using Non-Parametric Artificial Neural Networks

3.

A.H.F. Insfrán

(1999)

An Integrated Approach for Fault Diagnosis in Power System Substations

4.

P.P.C. Mendes

(1999)

Artificial Neural Network Application to Real-Time Voltage Stability Analysis

5.

H.G. Arango

(2000)

Spatial-Temporal Model of the Electric Energy Consumer Market Based on Polycentric Urban Structure and Land Use

6.

L.S. Moulin

(2002)

Machine Learning and Feature Extraction for Power System Transient Stability Analysis

7.

 

8.

P.J. Abrão

(2002)

Automatic Knowledge Acquisition Applied to Voltage Stability Assessment

8.

A.J.R. Reis

(2003)

Electric Load Neural Forecaster Based on Multiresolution Analysis

9.

R.M.G. Velásquez

(2006)

Input Selection to Electric Load Neural Forecasters

10.

H.B. Menezes

(2006)

Data Diagnosis and Filtering in Electric Power Systems

11.

S.M. Souza

(2008)

Feature Extraction for Fault Localization on Transmission Lines

12.

A.O. Moreno

(2008)

A New Algorithm for Solving Classification Problems

13.

V.H. Ferreira

(2008)

Autonomous Neural Models for Load Forecasting

14.

C.M.S. Chaves

(2008)

Computational Intelligence Aid for the Restoration of Power Systems

 

            5.b.2 Chaired Master Degrees

 

 

Student Name

Dissertation Title

1.

R.A. da Costa Junior

(1994)

Dynamic Load Modeling

2.

A.H.F. Insfrán

(1994)

Fault Detection in Electric Power Substations

3.

P.C. Nascimento

(1995)

Neural Networks in Real-Time Control

4.

C.F.C. Crúz

(1996)

Short-Term Load Forecasting Using Neural Networks

5.

A. Farias Neto

(1997)

Neuro-Fuzzy Models for Dynamic Load Representation

6.

C.I.A. Costa

(1997)

A Computational Tool for Short-Term Load Forecasting

7.

L.S. Moulin

(1998)

Confidence Intervals for Neural Network Based Short-Term Load Forecasting

8.

F. Rodrigues

(1998)

Telescope Pointing Error Correction Using Neural Networks

9.

A.J.R. Reis

(1999)

Time-Series Pre-Processing for Short-Term Load Forecasting Via Artificial Neural Networks

10.

C.H.L. Feichas

(2001)

A Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map Model for Short-Term Load Forecasting

11.

J.G. Rodrigues Filho

(2002)

On-Line Partial Discharge Classification in SF6 Isolated Equipment

12.

V.H. Ferreira

(2005)

Regularization Techniques for Neural Network Models Applied to Short-Term Load Forecasting

13.

C.A.N. Santos Filho

(2006)

State Estimation Via Interior Point Method with Inequality Constraints Adjustment

14.

G.C. Rodrigues

(2007)

Using Neural Networks for Wind Forecasting

15.

A.F. Amêndola

(2007)

Meta-Heuristics for Optimization Applied to Hydrothermal Coordination

16.

T.A. Souza

(2008)

Clustering Wind Time-Series for Evaluating Wind Power Generation Availability

 

5.c Publications

 

5.c.1 Refereed Archival Journal Articles:

 

1.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Victor H. Quintana, & Grantham K.H. Pang: “Solving Data Acquisition and Processing Problems in Power Systems Using a Pattern Analysis Approach”, IEE Proceedings Part C: Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Vol. 138, July 1991, pp. 365-376.

 

2.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Victor H. Quintana, & Grantham K.H. Pang: “Associative Memory Models for Data Processing”, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 14, February 1992, pp. 23-32.

 

3.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Victor H. Quintana, & Grantham K.H. Pang: “A Probabilistic Associative Memory and Its Application to Signal Processing in Electrical Power Systems”, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Journal, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1992, pp. 309-318.

 

4.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Victor H. Quintana, & Grantham K.H. Pang: “A Pattern Recognition Approach for Data Estimation and Debugging in Power Systems”, Canadian Electrical and Computer Engineering Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1993, pp. 7-15.

 

5.  Jacob Scharcanski, Helen C. Shen, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Colour Quantisation for Colour Texture Analysis”, IEE Proceedings Part E: Computers and Digital Techniques, Vol. 140, March 1993, pp. 109-114.

 

6.  The CIGRÉ Task Force 38-06-06 Members & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva (Invited Expert): “Artificial Neural Networks for Power Systems - A Literature Survey”, International Journal on Engineering Intelligent Systems (CRL Publishing Ltd), Vol. 1, No. 3, December 1993, pp. 133-158.

 

7.  Germano Lambert Torres & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Application of Intelligent Systems to Power Engineering”, Controle & Automação (Journal of the Brazilian Automation Society), Vol. 5, October/November 1994, pp. 144-152 (in portuguese).

 

8.  The CIGRÉ Task Force 38-06-06 Members & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva (Invited Expert): “Artificial Neural Networks for Power Systems”, ELECTRA, No. 159, April 1995, pp. 76-101.

 

9.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva & Victor H. Quintana: “Pattern Analysis in Power System State Estimation”, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1995, pp. 51-60.

 

10.  Luiz E. Borges da Silva, Germano Lambert Torres, Ernesto C. Saturno, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Xuan D. Do: “Simulation of a Neural Net Controller for Motor Drives”, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Transactions of IMACS (Elsevier Science Publishers), Vol. 38, No. 4/5, May/June 1995, pp. 311-322.

 

11.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Alfredo H.F. Insfrán, Paulo M. da Silveira, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Neural Networks for Fault Location in Substations”, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 11, No. 1, February 1996, pp. 234-239.

 

12.  Júlio C.S. Souza, Armando M. Leite da Silva, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Data Debugging for Real-Time Power System Monitoring Based on Pattern Analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 11, No. 3, August 1996, pp. 1592-1599.

 

13.  Júlio C.S. Souza, Armando M. Leite da Silva, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Application of Neural Networks to Data Debugging in Power System Real-Time Supervision”, ELETROEVOLUÇÃO (CIGRÉ-Brazil), No. 7, October 1996, pp. 59-64 (in portuguese).

 

14.  Germano Lambert Torres, Guilherme M. Ribeiro, Cláudio I.A. Costa, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Victor H. Quintana: “Knowledge Engineering Tool for Training Power-Substation Operators”, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 12, No. 2, April 1997, pp. 694-699.

 

15.  Hélio Barros Pinto, Paulo Gomes, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Eurico Salgado Sobrinho, & others: “DESPRO – expert system for maintenance schedulling”, ELETROEVOLUÇÃO (CIGRÉ-Brazil), No. 8, May 1997, pp. 46-50 (in portuguese).

 

16.  Júlio C.S. Souza, Armando M. Leite da Silva, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “On-Line Topology Determination and Bad Data Supression in Power System Operation Using Artificial Neural Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 13, No. 3, August 1998, pp. 796-803.

 

17.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Cláudio Ferreira, Germano Lambert Torres, & Antonio C. Zambroni de Souza: “A New Constructive ANN and Its Application to Electric Load Representation”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 12, No. 4, November 1997, pp. 1569-1575.

 

18.  Júlio C.S. Souza, Armando M. Leite da Silva, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Data Visualisation and Identification of Anomalies in Power System State Estimation Using Artificial Neural Networks”, IEE Proceedings: Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Vol. 144, No. 5, September 1997, pp. 445-455.

 

19.  Djalma M. Falcão, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & others: “Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems in Brazil: present status and perspectives”, ELETROEVOLUÇÃO (CIGRÉ-Brazil), No. 14, December 1998, pp. 65-70.

 

20.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Alfredo H.F. Insfrán, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Alarm Processing Based on Associative Neural Memories with Explanatory Capability”, International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 1999, pp. 109-115.

 

21.  Adolfo Ribeiro Jr., Oscar Kastrup Filho, Jorge Amon Filho, Paulo Cesar Fernandez, José Joaquim S. Lopes, Artur R. Barros, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Automatic Specification and Operation Performance Tracking of High-Voltage Circuit Breakers Using Expert Systems”, ELETROEVOLUÇÃO (CIGRÉ-Brazil), No. 16, June 1999, pp. 56-61 (in portuguese).

 

22.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva (Guest Editor): “Editorial: Intelligent System Application to Power Systems ’99”, International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems, Vol. 7, No. 4, December 1999, pp. 159-162.

 

23.  Alfredo H.F. Insfrán, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Fault Diagnosis Using Fuzzy Sets”, International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems, Vol. 7, No. 4, December 1999, pp. 177-182.

 

24.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva & Luciano S. Moulin: “Confidence Intervals for Neural Network Based Short-Term Load Forecasting”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 15, No. 4, November 2000, pp. 1191-1196.

 

25.  Héctor G. Arango, Antonio C. Zambroni de Souza, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Difference Between Regular and Deterministic Chaos Process Based on Time Analysis of Load: an example using CEMIG data”, Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 56, No. 1, October 2000, pp. 35-41.

 

26.  Otávio A.S. Carpinteiro & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “A Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map Model in Short-Term Load Forecasting”, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 2001, pp. 105-113.

 

27.  Jorge L. Jardim, Carlos A. Silva Neto, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Antônio C. Zambroni de Souza: “A Unified Online Security Assessment System”, ELETROEVOLUÇÃO (CIGRÉ-Brazil), No. 23, June 2001, pp. 36-40.

 

28.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva & Carlos E. Pedreira: “Editorial: Fifth Brazilian Conference on Neural Networks”, International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, December 2001, pp. 177-178.

 

29.  Luciano S. Moulin, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, & Robert J. Marks II: “Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines Applied to Power Systems Transient Stability Analysis”, International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, December 2001, pp. 205-211.

 

30.  Marcus Th. Schilling, Júlio C.S. Souza, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Milton B. do Coutto Filho: “Power Systems Reliability Evaluation Using Neural Networks”, International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, December 2001, pp. 219-226.

 

31.  Ioannis N. Kassabalidis, Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, Robert J. Marks II, Luciano S. Moulin, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Power System Dynamic Security Border Identification Using a New Variation of Particle Swarm Optimization”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 17, No. 3, August 2002, pp. 723-729.

 

32.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Tutorial on Genetic Algorithms”, Learning and Nonlinear Models (Journal of the Brazilian Neural Network Society), Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002, pp. 43-58.

 

33.  Agnaldo J.R. Reis & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Multiresolution Short-Term Forecasting for Electrical Load Using Wavelet Decompositions and Neural Networks”, WSEAS Transactions on Systems, Vol. 2, July 2003, pp. 660-665.

 

34.  Antônio C. Zambroni de Souza, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Jorge L.A. Jardim, Carlos A. Silva Neto, Germano Lambert Torres, Cláudio Ferreira, & Luiz C. Ferreira: “A New Contingency Analysis Approch for Voltage Collapse Assessment”, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 25, No. 10, December 2003, pp. 781-785.

 

35.  Agnaldo J.R. Reis & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Application of the Discrete Wavelet Transform to Short Term Load Forecasting Via Neural Networks”, Controle & Automação (Journal of the Brazilian Automation Society), Vol. 15. No. 1, January/March 2004, pp. 101-108 (in portuguese).

 

36.  Luciano S. Moulin, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, & Robert J. Marks II: “Support Vector Machines for Transient Stability Analysis of Large-Scale Power Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 19, No. 2, May 2004, pp. 818-825.

 

37.  Otávio A.S. Carpinteiro, Agnaldo J.R. Reis, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “A Hierarchical Neural Model in Short-Term Load Forecasting”, Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 4, No. 4, September 2004, pp. 405-412.

 

38.  Agnaldo J.R. Reis & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Feature Extraction Via Multiresolution Analysis for Short-Term Load Forecasting”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2005, pp. 189-198.

 

39.  Vitor H. Ferreira & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Regularization of Short Term Load Forecasting Neural Models”, Learning and Nonlinear Models (Journal of the Brazilian Neural Network Society), Vol. 3, No. 1, 2005, pp. 19-26.

 

40.  Vitor Hugo Ferreira & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Towards Estimating Autonomous Neural Network Based Electric Load Forecasters”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 22, No. 4, November 2007, pp. 1554-1562.

 

41.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Vitor Hugo Ferreira, & Roberto M.G. Velásquez: “Input Space to Neural Network Based Load Forecasters”, International Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 616-629, 2008.

 

42.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Suzana M. Souza, & Antonio Carlos S. Lima: “Fault Localization on Transmission Lines Using Complex-Domain Neural Networks”, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.

 

5.c.2 Book Chapters:

 

1.  Helen C. Shen, David K.Y. Chiu, Clark Y.C. Bie, Jacob Scharcanski, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: "Representational Issues in Texture Analysis", in Computer Vision: Systems, Theory and Applications, A. Basu and X. Li (Editors), World Scientific Press, 1993, pp. 153-177, ISBN 981-02-1392-1.

 

2.  CIGRE Task Force 38-06-06, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Artificial neural networks for power systems: state of the art”, in Neural Networks Applications in Power Systems, T.S. Dillon and D. Niebur (Editors), CRL Publishing, 1996, pp. 37-110, ISBN 0-9527874-0-7.

 

3.  Germano Lambert Torres, Luiz E. Borges da Silva, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva:Fuzzy load modeling, management and forecasting”, in Fuzzy Logic Techniques in Power Systems, W. Mielczarsky (Editor), Springer-Verlag, 1998, pp. 277-290, ISBN 3-7908-1044-4.

 

4.  Germano Lambert Torres, Ronaldo Rossi, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, José A. Jardini, & Victor H. Quintana: “Power system security analysis based on rough classification”, in Fuzzy Sets, Rough Sets and Decision Making Processes, S.K. Pal (Editor), Springer-Verlag, 1999, pp. 263-274, ISBN 981-4021-00-8.

 

5.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva & Djalma M. Falcão: “Fundamentals of Genetic Algorithms”, Chapter 2 in Modern Heuristic Optimization Techniques with Applications to Power Systems, K.Y. Lee and M.A. El-Sharkawi (Editors), Wiley, 2008, pp. 25-42, ISBN 0471457116.

 

6.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Djalma M. Falcão, & Kwang Y. Lee: “Overview of Applications in Power Systems”, Chapter 10 in Modern Heuristic Optimization Techniques with Applications to Power Systems, K.Y. Lee and M.A. El-Sharkawi (Editors), Wiley, 2008, pp. 237-260, ISBN 0471457116.

 

7.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva & Vitor H. Ferreira: “Short-Term Load Forecasting: from aggregated to bus demand”, Chapter in Advances in Electric Power and Energy, Power Systems Engineering Series, IEEE Press/Wiley, M. El-Hawary (Editor), in press.

 

5.c.3 Editing of Books, Journals, and Conference Proceedings:

 

1.  Proceedings of the I Brazilian Conference on Neural Networks, Itajubá, Minas Gerais, October 1994.

 

2.  Member of the Editorial Board of the CIGRÉ-Brazil Journal ELETROEVOLUÇÃO, 1996-2001.

 

3.  Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 4-8, 1999, ISBN: 85-900841-1-6.

 

4.  Proceedings of the V Brazilian Conference on Neural Networks, Rio de Janeiro, April 2001.

 

5.  Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Intelligent Techniques Applied to Power Systems, São Luís, Maranhão, September 2005.

 

6.  Proceedings of the 1st Brazilian Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, October 2007.

 

7.  Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian Neural Network Society Journal – Learning and Nonlinear Models, ISSN 1676-2789, www.sbrn.org.br, 2002-2006.

 

8.  Co-Editor of the Automatic Control Encyclopedia (3 volumes), Edgard Blucher, 2008, ISBN 8521204108 (in portuguese).

 

5.c.4 Conference Proceedings:

 

1.  Eduardo A. Leite, José E. Gonçalves, Otto C. Rottuno Filho, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Stochastic Post-Processing for Hydrologic Forecasting”, Brazilian Water Resources Symposium, Rio de Janeiro, October 2008, 16 pages.

 

2.  Alexandre F. Amêndola & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Long-Term Hydrothermal Scheduling Via Meta-Heuristics”, Proceedings of the 16th Power System Computation Conference (PSCC), Glasgow, Scotland, July 2008, 6 pages.

 

3.  Vitor H. Ferreira & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Modelos Neurais Autônomos para Previsão de Carga Elétrica”, Proceedings of the VIII Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais, Florianópolis, Outubro 2007, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

4.  Suzana M. Souza, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Antonio Carlos S. Lima: “Voltage and Current Patterns for Fault Location in Transmission Lines”, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Orlando, USA, August 2007, 6 pages.

 

5.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva & Vitor H. Ferreira: “On Electric Load Forecasting and Neural Networks”, Proceedings of the 4th International Institute of Forecasters Workshop (Risk, Volatility and Forecasting in Energy and Financial Markets), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 2007, 6 pages.

 

6.  Adilson E. Xavier, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Raul Fonseca Neto, Alberto O. Moreno, Patrícia C. Rodrigues, & Victor S.A. Menezes: “A Support Vector Machine Problem Solving Via the Hyperbolic Smoothing Approach”, Proceedings of the XIII Conferencia Latino-Ibero-Americana de Investigación Operativa, Montevidéo, Uruguay, November 2006, 6 pages.

 

7.  Suzana M. Souza, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Antonio Carlos S. Lima: “Attribute Selection for Fault Location Recognition in Transmission Lines”, Proceedings of the IEEE PES General Meeting, Paper 06GM0470, Montreal, Canada, June 2006, 6 pages.

 

8.  Vitor H. Ferreira & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Modelo Híbrido para Previsão Multi-Cenário de Carga a Médio Prazo”, Proceedings of the XVI Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA), Salvador, Outubro 2006, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

9.  Carlos Alberto N. dos Santos Filho, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Luiz Antonio C. Pereira: “Tratamento de Erros Paramétricos em Estimação de Estado Através do Ajuste das Restrições de Desigualdade”, Proceedings of the XVI Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA), Salvador, Outubro 2006, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

10.  Hélio B. de Menezes & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Estimação de Medidas em Sistemas Elétricos: Inclusão dos Aspectos Temporais na Abordagem por Cobertura de Eventos”, Proceedings of the XII Latin-American Congress on Automatic Control (CLCA), Salvador, Outubro 2006, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

11.  Pablo M. Ribeiro, Djalma M. Falcão, Davi A. Garrido, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Roberto M.G. Velasquez: “Sistema Computacional para Previsão de Demanda por Energia em Pontos de Suprimento e Subestações da COELBA”, Proceedings of the XVII Seminário Nacional de Distribuição de Energia Elétrica (SENDI), Belo Horizonte, Agosto 2006, 12 pages (in portuguese).

 

12.  Suzana M. Souza, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Antonio Carlos S. Lima: “Informações Relevantes para Modelos Neurais Localizadores de Faltas em Linhas de Transmissão”, Proceedings of the X Simpósio de Especialistas em Planejamento da Operação e Expansão Elétrica (SEPOPE), Florianópolis, Maio 2006, Artigo SP-077, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

13.  Vitor H. Ferreira & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Técnicas de Regularização de Modelos Neurais Aplicadas à Previsão de Carga a Curto Prazo”, Proceedings of the VII Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais (CBRN), Natal, Novembro 2005, Artigo 179, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

14.  Vitor H. Ferreira & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Complexity Control of Neural Models for Load Forecasting”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems”, Washington D.C., USA, November 2005, pp. 100-104.

 

15.  Suzana M. Souza , Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Antonio Carlos S. Lima: “Seleção de Características para Localização de Faltas em Linhas de Transmissão”, Proceedings of the VII Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente (SBAI), São Luís, Setembro 2005, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

16.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Overcoming Limitations of NNs for On-Line DSA”, Proceedings of the IEEE PES General Meeting, Paper 0-7803-9156-X, San Francisco, USA, June 2005, 8 pages.

 

17.  Vitor H. Ferreira & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Controle de Complexidade de Previsores neurais na Previsão de Carga Elétrica para o Horizonte de Curto Prazo”, Proceedings of the XV Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA), Gramado, Setembro 2004, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

18.  Agnaldo J.R. Reis & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Seleção de Variáveis de Entrada para Previsores Neurais – Um Estudo Comparativo”, Proceedings of the IX Simpósio de Especialistas em Planejamento da Operação e Expansão Elétrica (SEPOPE), Rio de Janeiro, Maio 2004, SP-166, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

19.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Ubiratan P. Rodrigues, Agnaldo J.R. Reis, Luciano S. Moulin, & Paulo C. Nascimento: “Artificial Neural Network-Based Short-Term Demand Forecaster”, Proceedings of the 5th Latin-American Congress: Electricity, Generation, and Transmission, São Pedro, Brazil, November 2003, 6 pages.

 

20.  Wilson F. Lage, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Ubiratan P. Rodrigues, Geraldo Moreira Filho, Walmir Marra, Wilderson A. Andrade, & Gilvaney M. Machado: “Previsão de Carga On-Line”, Proceedings of the XVII Seminário Nacional de Produção e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica (SNPTEE), Uberlândia, Outubro 2003, Grupo IX, GOP-29, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

21.  José G. Rodrigues Filho & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Classificação de Descargas Parciais em Equipamentos Isolados a SF6 a Partir do Monitoramento On-Line por UHF”, Proceedings of the XVII Seminário Nacional de Produção e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica (SNPTEE), Uberlândia, Outubro 2003, Grupo VIII, GSE-07, 5 pages (in portuguese).

 

22.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Overview of Applications in Power Systems”, in A Tutorial Course on Evolutionary Computation Techniques for Power System Optimization, Edited by Kwang Y. Lee and Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, IFAC Symposium on Power Plants and Power Systems Control, Seoul, Korea, September 2003, pp. 16-23.

 

23.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Fundamentals of Genetic Algorithms”, in A Tutorial Course on Evolutionary Computation Techniques for Power System Optimization, Edited by Kwang Y. Lee and Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, IFAC Symposium on Power Plants and Power Systems Control, Seoul, Korea, September 2003, pp. 24-32.

 

24.  Agnaldo J.R. Reis & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Enhancing Artificial Neural Network-Based Load Forecasting Via Discrete Wavelet Transform”, Proceedings of the 12th Intelligent Systems Application to Power Systems Conference (ISAP), Lemnos, Greece, August 2003, Session M4, 6 pages.

 

25.  Agnaldo J.R. Reis & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Previsor Neural de Carga Elétrica Baseado na Transformada Wavelet Discreta”, Proceedings of the VI Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais (CBRN), São Paulo, Junho 2003, pp. 343-348.

 

26.  Wilson F. Lage, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Walmir Marra, Ubiratan P. Rodrigues, Geraldo M. Filho, Gilvaney M. Machado, & Wilderson A. Andrade: “PREVISOR: Sistema de Previsão de Carga On-Line”, Proceedings of the V Simpósio de Automação de Sistemas Elétricos (SIMPASE), Recife, Maio 2003, Informe IT38, pp. 1-6.

 

27.  Agnaldo J.R. Reis & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Aplicação da Transformada Wavelet Discreta na Previsão de Carga a Curto Prazo Via Redes Neurais”, Proceedings of the XIV Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, Natal, Setembro 2002, pp. 568-573.

 

28.  Pedro J. Abrão, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Antônio C. Zambroni de Souza: “Symbolic Knowledge Extracted from Artificial Neural Networks: Voltage Security Application”, Proceedings of the XIV Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, Natal, Setembro 2002, pp. 1761-1766.

 

29.  Luciano S. Moulin, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, & Robert J. Marks II: “Support Vector and Multilayer Perceptron Neural Networks Applied to Power Systems Transient Stability Analysis with Input Dimensionality Reduction”, Panel System Wide Control with Intelligent Techniques, IEEE PES Summer Meeting, Chicago, USA, July 2002, 5 pages.

 

30.  Agnaldo J.R. Reis & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Previsor Neural de Carga Elétrica Baseado em Análise de Multiresolução Via Wavelets”, Proceedings of the VIII SEPOPE, Brasília, Maio 2002, Artigo IP-052, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

31.  Pedro J. Abrão, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Antônio C. Zambroni de Souza: “Rule Extraction from Artificial Neural Networks for Voltage Security Analysis”, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Hawaii, USA, May 2002, 6 pages.

 

32.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva & Pedro J. Abrão: “Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Electric Power Systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Hawaii, USA, May 2002, 6 pages.

 

33.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Overview of Applications in Power Systems”, Chapter 2 in Tutorial on Modern Heuristic Optimization Techniques with Application to Power Systems, K.Y. Lee and M.A. El-Sharkawi (Eds.), January 2002, pp. 16-23, IEEE Publication Code: 02TP160.

 

34.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Fundamentals of Genetic Algorithms”, Chapter 3 in Tutorial on Modern Heuristic Optimization Techniques with Application to Power Systems, K.Y. Lee and M.A. El-Sharkawi (Eds.), January 2002, pp. 24-32, IEEE Publication Code: 02TP160.

 

35.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Ubiratan P. Rodrigues, Agnaldo J.R. Reis, Luciano S. Moulin, & Carlos A. Silva Neto: “ORÁCULO – Uma Ferramenta para Previsão de Carga”, Proceedings of the XVI Seminário Nacional de Produção e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica (SNPTEE), Campinas, Outubro 2001, Grupo IX, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

36.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Ubiratan P. Rodrigues, Agnaldo J.R. Reis, & Luciano S. Moulin: “NeuroDem – A Neural Network Based Short Term Demand Forecaster”, Proceedings of the IEEE Power Tech, Porto, Portugal, September 2001, 6 pages.

 

37.  Eduardo B. Evangelista, André Bianco, José Augusto Gomes, Jayme C.F. Guimarães, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Armando M. Leite da Silva: “Automatic Contingency Analysis Integration to an Expert System in Scheduled Outage”, Proceedings of the IEEE Power Tech, Porto, Portugal, September 2001, 6 pages.

 

38.  Luciano S. Moulin, Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, & Robert J. Marks II, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Automatic Feature Extraction for Neural Network Based Power Systems Dynamic Security Evaluation”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems, Budapest, Hungary, June 2001, pp. 41-46.

 

39.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Agnaldo J.R. Reis, Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, & Robert J. Marks II: “Enhancing Neural Network Based Load Forecasting Via Preprocessing”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems, Budapest, Hungary, June 2001, pp. 118-123.

 

40.  Otávio A.S. Carpinteiro, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Agnaldo J.R. Reis: “Short Term Load Forecasting via a Hierarchical Neural Model”, Proceedings of the V Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais, Rio de Janeiro, Abril 2001, pp. 55-59.

 

41.  Júlio C.S. Souza, Marcus Th. Schiling, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Milton B. do Coutto Filho: “Cálculo de Índices de Confiabilidade de Sistemas de Potência Utilizando Redes Neurais”, Proceedings of the V Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais, Rio de Janeiro, Abril 2001, pp. 535-540 (in portuguese).

 

42.  Pedro P.C. Mendes, Djalma M. Falcão, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Aplicação da Técnica de Valores Singulares na Avaliação da Estabilidade de Tensão de Regime Permanente de Sistemas Elétricos de Potência”, Proceedings of the IV Congreso Latino Americano de Generacion y Transporte de Energia Electrica, Valparaíso, Chile, Noviembre 2000, pp. 1.7-7.7 (in portuguese).

 

43.  Agnaldo J.R. Reis & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Pré-processamento de Séries Temporais para Previsão de Carga a Curto Prazo Via Redes Neurais”, Proceedings of the XIII Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, Florianópolis, Setembro 2000, pp. 1138-1143 (in portuguese).

 

44.  Pedro P.C. Mendes, Djalma M. Falcão, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Extração de Características de um Sistema Elétrico de Potência para Avaliação da Estabilidade de Tensão Via Redes Neurais Artificiais”, Proceedings of the XIII Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, Florianópolis, Setembro 2000, pp. 1144-1149 (in portuguese).

 

45.  Jorge L. Jardim, Carlos A. Silva Neto, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Antônio C. Zambroni de Souza, & others: “On-Line Dynamic Security Assessment System”, Proceedings of the 38th CIGRÉ Session Major Electric Power System Engineering Issues at the Turn of the 21st Century, Paris, France, August 2000, Paper 38-290, 5 pages.

 

46.  Otávio A.S. Carpinteiro & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “A Hierarchical Neural Model in Short-Term Load Forecasting”, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Como, Italy, July 2000, Paper No. 0-7695-0619-4/00, 6 pages.

 

47.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Appplication of EC to Optimization, Model Identification, Training and Control”, in Tutorial on Evolutionary Techniques and Fuzzy Logic in Power Systems, M.A. El-Sharkawi (Ed.), July 2000, pp. 32-40, IEEE Publication Code: 2000 TP-142.

 

48.  Hélio B. Pinto, Eduardo B. Evangelista, Kazuo Haragushi, Armando M. Leite da Silva, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & others: “Automatic Contingency Analysis Integration to na Expert System in Scheduled Outage”, Proceedings of the VII Simpósio de Especialistas em Planejamento da Operação e Expansão Elétrica (SEPOPE), Curitiba, Maio 2000, Artigo SP-001, 6 pages.

 

49.  Héctor G. Arango, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Previsão Espacial de Carga Empregando um Modelo Dinâmico Baseado em Análise Locacional”, Proceedings of the VII Simpósio de Especialistas em Planejamento da Operação e Expansão Elétrica (SEPOPE), Curitiba, Maio 2000, Artigo SP-002, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

50.  Pedro P.C. Mendes, Djalma M. Falcão, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Real Time Steady State Voltage Stability Assessment with a Grid of Artificial Neural Networks”, Proceedings of the VII Simpósio de Especialistas em Planejamento da Operação e Expansão Elétrica (SEPOPE), Curitiba, Maio 2000, Artigo SP-097, 6 pages.

 

51.  Cláudio Ferreira, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “MITZIP: Uma Abordagem Alternativa para a Modelagem Dinâmica da Carga”, Proceedings of the XV Seminário Nacional de Produção e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica (SNPTEE), Foz do Iguaçú, Outubro 1999, Grupo IV, Artigo GAT/11, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

52.  Walmir Marra, Wilson F. Lage, Carlos Alberto S. Miranda, Germano Lambert Torres, Cláudio I.A. Costa, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Previsão de Carga de Curto Prazo”, Proceedings of the XV Seminário Nacional de Produção e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica (SNPTEE), Foz do Iguaçú, Outubro 1999, Grupo IX, Artigo GOP/19, 4 pages (in portuguese).

 

53.  Otávio A.S. Carpinteiro & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “A Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map Model in Short-Term Load Forecasting”, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN), Warsaw, Poland, September 1999, pp. 75-80.

 

54.  Francisco Rodrigues & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: "Rede Neural Aplicada à Correção de Erros de Apontamento de Telescópios", Proceedings of the 4 Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente, São Paulo, Setembro 1999, pp. 219-223 (in portuguese).

 

55.  Hélder S. Carvalho, Paulo C. Nascimento, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Júlio C.S. Souza, Marcus Th. Schilling, & Milton B. do Coutto Filho: “Neural Networks Based Approach for Reliability Estimation”, Proceedings of the IEEE Power Tech Conference, Budapest, Hungary, August 1999, Paper BPT99-140-23, 6 pages.

 

56.  Luciano S. Moulin & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Neural Network Based Short-Term Electric Load Forecasting with Confidence Intervals”, Proceedings of the IV Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais, São José dos Campos, Julho 1999, pp. 7-12.

 

57.  Adolfo Ribeiro Jr., Oscar Kastrup Filho, Jorge Amon Filho, Paulo Cesar Fernandez, José Joaquim S. Lopes, Artur R. Barros, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & outros: “Especificação Automática e Acompanhamento do Desempenho Operativo de Disjuntores de Alta Tensão Utilizando Sistemas Especialistas”, Proceedings of the VIII Encontro Regional Latino-Americano da Cigré (ERLAC), Ciudad del Leste, Paraguai, Maio 1999, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

58.  Alfredo H.F. Insfrán, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Fault Diagnosis Using Fuzzy Sets”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 1999, pp. 162-166.

 

59.  Oscar Kastrup Filho, Adolfo Ribeiro Jr., Jorge Amon Filho, Artur R. Barros, Germano Lambert Torres, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Manuel L.B. Martinez: “An Expert System for Circuit Breaker Technical Specification and Life Management”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 1999, pp. 260-264.

 

60.  Antônio Faria Neto, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Sistemas Neuro-Fuzzy para Modelagem Dinâmica de Carga?”, Proceedings of the 12 Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, Uberlândia, Setembro 1998, Vol. 4, pp. 1327-1332 (in portuguese).

 

61.  Pedro José Abrão, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Antônio C. Zambroni de Souza: “Utilização de Aquisição Automática de Conhecimento no Processo de Avaliação de Segurança de Tensão”, Proceedings of the 12 Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, Uberlândia, Setembro 1998, Vol. 6, pp. 2155-2160 (in portuguese).

 

62.  Pedro P.C. Mendes, Djalma M. Falcão, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Avaliação da Estabilidade de Tensão de Regime Permanente Através de Redes Neurais Artificiais”, Proceedings of the 12 Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, Uberlândia, Setembro 1998, Vol. 5, pp. 1837-1842 (in portuguese).

 

63.  Paulo C. Nascimento, Hélder S. Carvalho, Júlio C.S. Souza, Marcus Th. Schilling, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Milton B. do Coutto Filho: “Desempenho e Confiabilidade de Sistemas de Potência Via Redes Neurais”, Proceedings of the 12 Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, Uberlândia, Setembro 1998, Vol. 5, pp. 1849-1854 (in portuguese).

 

64.  Cláudio Ferreira, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Modelo Dinâmico de Carga MIT Agregado com o Modelo ZIP e sua Comparação com os Modelos ZIP e Linear”, Proceedings of the III Congresso Latino Americano de Distribuição de Energia Elétrica (CONLADIS), São Paulo, Setembro 1998, pp. 486-490 (in portuguese).

 

65.  Héctor G. Arango, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Previsão Espacial de Carga Baseada na Teoria da Economia Urbana”, Proceedings of the III Congresso Latino Americano de Distribuição de Energia Elétrica (CONLADIS), São Paulo, Setembro 1998, pp. 276-280 (in portuguese).

 

66.  Pedro Abrão, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Antônio C. Zambroni de Souza: “Voltage Security Assessment Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques”, Proceedings of the VI Symposium of Specialists in Electric Operational and Expansion Planning, Salvador, Brazil, May 1998, Paper SP-061, 6 pages.

 

67.  Jorge L. Jardim, Carlos Alberto S. Neto, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Antônio C. Zambroni de Souza, & Djalma M. Falcão: “A New On-Line Dynamic Security Assessment System”, Proceedings of the VI Symposium of Specialists in Electric Operational and Expansion Planning, Salvador, Brazil, May 1998, Paper SP-104, 6 pages.

 

68.  Djalma M. Falcão, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & others: “Application of Intelligent Systems to Power Systems in Brazil”, Proceedings of the VI Symposium of Specialists in Electric Operational and Expansion Planning, Salvador, Brazil, May 1998, Paper SP-077, 6 pages.

 

69.  Germano Lambert Torres, Armando M. Leite da Silva, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & others: “Planejamento e Operação de Sistemas de Potência sob Incertezas Via Técnicas Difusas”, Proceedings of the VI Simpósio de Especialistas em Planejamento da Operação e Expansão Elétrica (SEPOPE), Salvador, Maio 1998, Artigo SP-014,.9 pages (in portuguese).

 

70.  Hélio B. Pinto, Eurico Salgado Sobrinho, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & others: “DESPRO – expert system for equipment maintenance analysis”, Proceedings of the VI Symposium of Specialists in Electric Operational and Expansion Planning, Salvador, Brazil, May 1998, Paper SP-086, 6 pages.

 

71.  Héctor G. Arango, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Erro de Previsão Espacial de Carga: metodologias para avaliação da homogeneidade do erro e para localização de carga marginal”, Proceedings of the III Congresso Latino-Americano: Geração e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica, Vol. 1, Campos do Jordão, Novembro 1997, pp. 334-339 (in portuguese).

 

72.  Héctor G. Arango, Antônio C. Zambroni de Souza, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Distinção entre Processos Estocásticos e de Caos Determinístico Baseados na Análise Temporal de Carga: um exemplo com dados da CEMIG”, Proceedings of the III Congresso Latino-Americano: Geração e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica, Vol. 1, Campos do Jordão, Novembro 1997, pp. 340-345 (in portuguese).

 

73.  Alberto A. Kopiler, Hélio B. Pinto, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & others: “DESPRO – sistema especialista para a análise do desligamento programado em sistemas elétricos de potência”, Proceedings of the III Congresso Latino-Americano: Geração e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica, Vol. 2, Campos do Jordão, Novembro 1997, pp. 653-658 (in portuguese).

 

74.  Germano Lambert Torres, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Cláudio I.A. Costa, Agostinho F. Cardoso, & Walmir Marra: “Short-Term Load Forecasting: CEMIG power industry’s approach”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Orlando, USA, October 1997, Vol. 4, pp. 3289-3294.

 

75.  Héctor G. Arango, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Spatial Electric Distribution Load Forecasting”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Orlando, USA, October 1997, Vol. 4, pp. 3295-3300.

 

76.  Júlio C.S. Souza, Armando M. Leite da Silva, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Aplicação de Redes Neurais para a Depuração da Base de Dados Utilizada Durante a Operação em Tempo-Real de Sistemas de Energia Elétrica”, Proceedings of the XIV Seminário Nacional de Produção e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica (SNPTEE), Belém, Outubro 1997, Grupo X, Artigo GOP/04, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

77.  Héctor G. Arango, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Resultados do Ajuste de Parâmetros de um Modelo de Simulação de Desordem Espacial Empregando Recozimento Simulado”, Proceedings of the 3° Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente, Vitória, Setembro 1997, pp. 371-376 (in portuguese).

 

78.  Paulo C. Nascimento & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Self Organizing Neural Network 2”, Proceedings of the III Brazilian Conference on Neural Networks, Florianópolis, Brazil, July 1997, pp. 45-50.

 

79.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Alfredo H.F. Insfrán, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Alarm Processing Based on Associative Neural Memories”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems, Seoul, Korea, July 1997, pp. 152-156.

 

80.  Germano Lambert Torres, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Victor H. Quintana, & Luiz E. Borges da Silva: “Data Mining into Control Center Database Via Rough Set Techniques”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems, Seoul, Korea, July 1997, pp. 246-250.

 

81.  Hélio B. Pinto, Eurico Salgado Sobrinho, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & others: “DESPRO – expert system for scheduled equipment maintenance analysis”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems, Seoul, Korea, July 1997, pp. 546-552.

 

82.  Hélio B. Pinto, Paulo Gomes, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Eurico Salgado Sobrinho, & outros: “DESPRO – um sistema especialista para análise de desligamentos programados na operação do sistema elétrico de potência”, Proceedings of the 7 Encontro Regional Latino-Americano da Cigré, Puerto Iguazú, Argentina, Maio 1997, CE 38-13, 5 pages (in portuguese).

 

83.  Hector G. Arango, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Load Evolution for Power System Distribution Planning Studies: an approach using spatial disorder”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Beijing, China, October 1996, pp. 1910-1915.

 

84.  Germano Lambert Torres, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Victor H. Quintana, & Luiz E. Borges da Silva: “Classification of Power System Operation Point Using Rough Sets Techniques”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Beijing, China, October 1996, pp. 1898-1903.

 

85.  Cláudio Ferreira, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Antonio C. Zambroni de Souza, Germano Lambert Torres, & Rodolfo S. Cabral: “Uma Nova Rede Neural Plástica Aplicada à Modelagem Dinâmica de Cargas Elétricas”, Proceedings of the 11 Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, São Paulo, Setembro 1996, Vol. 3, pp. 1597-1602 (in portuguese).

 

86.  Júlio C.S. Souza, Armando M. Leite da Silva, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Depuração de Dados na Supervisão em Tempo-Real de Sistemas de Potência Via Técnicas de Reconhecimento de Padrões”, Proceedings of the 11 Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, São Paulo, Setembro 1996, Vol. 1, pp. 519-524 (in portuguese).

 

87.  Germano Lambert Torres, Luiz E. Borges da Silva, Sandro G. Brito, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Victor Hugo Quintana: “Um Laboratório para o Ensino da Lógica Difusa”, Proceedings of the 11 Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, São Paulo, Setembro 1996, Vol. 2, pp. 869-874 (in portuguese).

 

88.  Júlio C.S. Souza, Armando M. Leite da Silva, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Information Debugging in Forecasting-Aided State Estimation Using a Pattern Analysis Approach”, Proceedings of the 12th Power Systems Computation Conference, Dresden, Germany, August 1996, Vol. 2, pp. 1214-1220.

 

89.  Hector G. Arango, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Germano Lambert Torres, & Victor H. Quintana: “Spatial-Temporal Disorder Applied to Load Evolution in Power System Distribution Planning Studies”, Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Calgary, Canada, July 1996.

 

90.  Germano Lambert Torres, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Victor H. Quintana, & Luiz E. Borges da Silva: “Knowledge-Base Reduction Based on Rough Set Techniques”, Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Calgary, Canada, May 1996.

 

91.  Germano Lambert Torres, Victor H. Quintana, Luiz E. Borges da Silva, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “A Fuzzy Control Lab for Educational Purposes”, Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Engineering Education, Kingston, Canada, June 1996.

 

92.  Marcus Th. Schilling, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & others: “Problemas e Estratégias Emergentes em Sistemas de Potência”, Proceedings of the V Seminário de Especialistas em Planejamento da Operação e Planejamento da Expansão (SEPOPE), Recife, Maio 1996, Vol. III, pp. 1001-1014 (in portuguese).

 

93.  Cláudio Ferreira, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Dynamic Load Modeling Using Artificial Neural Networks”, Proceedings of the V Symposium of Specialists in Electric Operational and Expansion Planning, Recife, Brazil, May 1996, Vol. III, pp. 747-754.

 

94.  Héctor G. Arango, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Long-Term Load Spatial Forecasting by Means of Genetic Algorithms”, Proceedings of the V Symposium of Specialists in Electric Operational and Expansion Planning, Recife, Brazil, May 1996, Vol. III, pp. 925-932.

 

95.  Germano Lambert Torres, Guilherme M. Ribeiro, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Victor H. Quintana: “Learning Power System Substation Operation Through Expert Systems”, Proceedings of the Third World Congress on Expert Systems, Seoul, Korea, February 1996.

 

96.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Cláudio Ferreira, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Dynamic Load Modeling Based on a Nonparametric ANN”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems, Orlando, USA, January 1996, pp. 55-59.

 

97.  Germano Lambert Torres, Hélio M. Valgas, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Roberto Del Guidice, Cláudio Ferreira, & Carlos França: “LOADDYN – computational package for dynamic load modeling”, Proceedings of the IFAC Symposium on Control of Power Plants and Power Systems (SIPOWER), Cancun, Mexico, December 1995, Vol. 1, pp. 109-114.

 

98.  Agostinho F. Cardoso, Walmir Marra, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Previsão de Carga On-Line”, Proceedings of the 5 Encontro para Debates de Assuntos de Operação (EDAO), Foz do Iguaçú, Dezembro 1995 (in portuguese).

 

99.  Pedro P.C. Mendes, Djalma M. Falcão, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Aplicação de Redes Neurais Artificiais na Análise em Tempo Real da Estabilidade de Tensão de Regime Permanente de um Sistema Elétrico de Potência”, Proceedings of the II Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais, Curitiba, Outubro 1995, Artigo 07, 7 pages (in portuguese).

 

100.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Paulo C. Nascimento, Germano Lambert Torres, & Luiz E. Borges da Silva: “A Nonparametric Neural Network for Adaptive Real-Time Control”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vancouver, Canada, October 1995, Vol. 3, pp. 2488-2493.

 

101.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Paulo C. Nascimento, Germano Lambert Torres, & Luiz E. Borges da Silva: “An Alternative Approach for Adaptive Real-Time Control Using a Nonparametric Neural Network”, Proceedings of the IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, USA, October 1995, Vol. 2, pp. 1788-1794.

 

102.  Germano Lambert Torres, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Roberto A. Costa Jr., Hélio M. Valgas, Roberto del Giudice R. Pinto, & Carlos França: “LOADDYN – um programa para a modelagem dinâmica da carga elétrica”, Proceedings of the XIII Seminário Nacional de Produção e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica (SNPTEE), Camboriú, Outubro 1995, Grupo X (GOP), 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

103.  Alfredo H.F. Insfrán, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Paulo M. da Silveira, Germano Lambert Torres, & Oscar Herreros: “Identificação de Faltas em Subestações de Potência Usando Memórias Associativas”, Proceedings of the XIII Seminário Nacional de Produção e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica (SNPTEE), Camboriú, Outubro 1995, FL/GPC/14, pp. 145-152 (in portuguese).

 

104.  Agostinho F. Cardoso, Walmir Marra, Germano Lambert Torres, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Sérgio M. Soares: “Aplicação de Sistemas Inteligentes na Previsão de Carga a Curto-Prazo”, Proceedings of the XIII Seminário Nacional de Produção e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica (SNPTEE), Camboriú, Outubro 1995, Grupo X (GOP), 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

105.  José W. Marangon Lima, Renato A.F. Nunes, Germano Lambert Torres, Armando M. Leite da Silva, Carlos A.D. Coelho, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “A Escola de Engenharia de Potência e os Novos Desafios do Setor Elétrico”, Proceedings of the XIII Seminário Nacional de Produção e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica (SNPTEE), Camboriú, Outubro 1995, FL/STE/05, 6 pages (in portuguese).

 

106.  Paulo C. Nascimento, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Uma Rede Neural Plástica para Controle em Tempo-Real”, Proceedings of the 2 Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente, Curitiba, Setembro 1995, pp. 277-282 (in portuguese).

 

107.  Héctor G. Arango, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Previsão Espacial de Carga Usando Algoritmos Genéticos”, Proceedings of the 2 Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente, Curitiba, Setembro 1995, pp. 153-158 (in portuguese).

 

108.  Germano Lambert Torres, Guilherme M. Ribeiro, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “An Expert System for Teaching Power System Substation Operation”, Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Control Education and Technology Transfer Issues, Curitiba, Brazil, September 1995, pp. 35-40.

 

109.  Guilherme M. Ribeiro, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Applications of Intelligent Systems to Substation Protection and Control”, Proceedings of the Applications of Intelligent Software Systems in Power Plant, Process Plant and Structural Engineering, São Paulo, Brazil, August 1995, Paper 10, 12 pages.

 

110.  Germano Lambert Torres, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Carlos F. Colmán, & Sérgio M. Soares: “An Hybrid System for Load Forecasting: Proposition and Tests”, Proceedings of the Applications of Intelligent Software Systems in Power Plant, Process Plant and Structural Engineering, São Paulo, Brazil, August 1995, Paper 20, 20 pages.

 

111.  Alfredo H.F. Insfrán, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Oscar Herreros, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Processamento de Alarmes em Unidades Geradoras de Grande Porte Usando Redes Neurais”, Proceedings of the V Seminário Técnico de Proteção e Controle, Curitiba, Agosto 1995, pp. 145-152 (in portuguese).

 

112.  Germano Lambert Torres, Luiz E. Borges da Silva, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Load Modeling and Forecasting Using L-Fuzzy Knowledge Base”, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Rough Sets and Soft Computing, San Jose, USA, November 1994.

 

113.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Alfredo H.F. Insfrán, Paulo M. da Silveira, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Diagnóstico de Faltas en Sub-Estaciones de Poténcia Utilizando Redes Neurales Artificiales del Tipo Memória Asociativa”, Proceedings of the 1er. Seminario Nacional del Sector Eléctrico Paraguayo (SESEP), Asunción, Paraguay, Noviembre 1994 (in spanish).

 

114.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Victor H. Quintana, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Optimal Estimate Training 2”, Proceedings of the I Brazilian Conference on Neural Networks, Itajubá, Brazil, October 1994, pp. 72-77.

 

115.  Germano Lambert Torres, Luiz E. Borges da Silva, Ernesto C. Saturno, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “NEUWORK - Ambiente de Desenvolvimento de Aplicações Utilizando Redes Neurais”, Proceedings of the 1 Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais, Itajubá, Outubro 1994, pp. 119-124 (in portuguese).

 

116.  Luiz E. Borges da Silva, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Germano Lambert Torres, & Ênio R. Ribeiro: “Algoritmo Rápido de Treinamento de Redes Neurais para Sistemas de Controle em Tempo Real”, Proceedings of the 1 Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais, Itajubá, Outubro 1994, pp. 256-261 (in portuguese).

 

117.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Alfredo H.F. Insfrán, Paulo M. da Silveira, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Applying Associative Memories to Fault Location Identification”, Proceedings of the I Brazilian Conference on Neural Networks, Itajubá, Brazil, October 1994, pp. 293-300.

 

118.  Germano Lambert Torres, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Jamil Haddad, & Luiz O. Mattos dos Reis: “Um Sistema Híbrido para a Previsão de Carga a Curto-Prazo”, Proceedings of the 1 Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais, Itajubá, Outubro 1994, pp. 307-312 (in portuguese).

 

119.  Guilherme M. Ribeiro, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Power Substation Supervisory Control”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, San Antonio, USA, October 1994, Vol. 3, pp. 2165-2170.

 

120.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Alfredo H.F. Insfrán, Paulo M. da Silveira, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Fault Localization Estimation Via Associative Memories”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems (ISAP), Montpellier, France, September 1994, pp. 477-484.

 

121.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva & Germano Lambert Torres: “Aplicação de Sistemas Inteligentes”, in "Análise de Sistemas de Potência: Perspectivas", A.M. Leite da Silva (Ed.), invited paper, Proceedings of the 10 Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA) / 6 Congresso Latino Americano de Controle Automático, Rio de Janeiro, Setembro 1994, pp. 1282-1295 (in portuguese).

 

122.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Alfredo H.F. Insfrán, Paulo M. da Siveira, & Germano Lambert Torres: “Identificação de Faltas em Subestações de Potência Usando Memórias Associativas”, Proceedings of the 10 Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA), Rio de Janeiro, Setembro 1994, pp. 391-396 (in portuguese).

 

123.  Guilherme M. Ribeiro, Germano Lambert Torres, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Cláudio I.A. Costa: “Controle Inteligente de Subestações de Potência”, Proceedings of the 10 Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA), Rio de Janeiro, Setembro 1994, pp. 397-402 (in portuguese).

 

124.  Germano Lambert Torres, Luiz E. Borges da Silva, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Jamil Haddad: “L-Fuzzy Knowledge Base”, Proceedings of the Brazil-Japan Joint Symposium on Fuzzy Systems, Campinas, Brazil, July 1994, pp. 206-211.

 

125.  Luiz E. Borges da Silva, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Germano Lambert Torres, & Gilles Roy: “An Alternative Neural Network Training Algorithm for Real Time Control”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Santiago, Chile, May 1994, pp. 72-76.

 

126.  Guilherme M. Ribeiro, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Expert Systems in Power Substation Operation and Control”, Proceedings of the IV Symposium of Specialists in Electric Operational and Expansion Planning, Foz do Iguaçú, Brazil, May 1994, SP-49, 6 pages.

 

127.  Germano Lambert Torres, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Cláudio Ferreira, & Luis O. Mattos: “Security Analysis - From Analytical Methods to Intelligent Systems”, Proceedings of the IV Symposium of Specialists in Electric Operational and Expansion Planning, Foz do Iguaçú, Brazil, May 1994, SP-22, 5 pages.

 

128.  Hélio M. Valgas, Roberto del Giudice R. Pinto, Carlos França, Germano Lambert Torres, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Robson C. Pires, & Roberto A. Costa Jr.: “Electrical Load Modeling”, Proceedings of the IV Symposium of Specialists in Electric Operational and Expansion Planning, Foz do Iguaçú, Brazil, May 1994, SP-21, 6 pages.

 

129.  Luiz E. Borges da Silva, Germano Lambert Torres, Ernesto C. Saturno, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Guy Olivier: “Neural Net Adaptive Schemes for DC Motor Drives”, Proceedings of the IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 1993, pp. 2043-2048.

 

130.  Guilherme M. Ribeiro, Cláudio I.A. Costa, Germano Lambert Torres, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “ESRASE - Sistema Especialista para Restabelecimento Automático de Subestações”, Proceedings of the I Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente, Rio Claro, Setembro 1993, pp. 115-124 (in portuguese).

 

131.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Armando M. Leite da Silva, Júlio C.S. Souza, & Milton B. do Coutto Filho: “State Forecasting Based on Artificial Neural Networks”, Proceedings of the 11th Power Systems Computation Conference, Avignon, France, August 1993, pp. 461-467.

 

132.  Ruggero F. Garray, Guilherme M. Ribeiro, Germano Lambert Torres, Ronaldo Rossi, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Paulo M. da Silveira: “Sistema Especialista para o Ajuste da Proteção”, Proceedings of the IV Seminário Técnico de Proteção e Controle, Fortaleza, Maio 1993, pp. 85-89 (in portuguese).

 

133.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Germano Lambert Torres, Ricardo Oliveira, & Hector Arango: “Análise de Contingência Utilizando um Sistema Neuronal”, Proceedings of the 5 Encontro Regional Latino-Americano da Cigré, Ciudad del Este, Paraguai, Maio 1993, 38-x-24, 5 pages (in portuguese).

 

134.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Termo de Referência”, Proceedings of the 1 Workshop Nacional em Redes Neuronais, Rio de Janeiro, Outubro 1992, pp. 68-71 (in portuguese).

 

135.  Jacob Scharcanski, Helen C. Shen, & Alexandre P. Alves da Silva: “Characteristic Colors for Texture Image Analysis: A Parallel Distributed Approach”, Proceedings of the Vision Interface 92, Vancouver, Canada, May 1992, pp. 15-20.

 

136.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Victor H. Quintana, & Grantham K.H. Pang: “Neural Networks for Topology Determination of Power Systems”, Proceedings of the First International Forum on Applications of Neural Networks to Power Systems, Seattle, USA, July 1991, pp. 297-301.

 

137.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Victor H. Quintana, & Grantham K.H. Pang: “Associative Memory Models for Bad Data Processing”, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Expert Systems Application to Power Systems, Tokyo and Kobe, Japan, April 1991, pp. 209-216.

 

138.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Victor H. Quintana, & Grantham K.H. Pang: “A Pattern Analysis Approach for Topology Determination, Bad Data Correction and Missing Measurement Estimation in Power Systems”, Proceedings of the North American Power Symposium, Auburn, USA, October 1990, pp. 363-372.

 

139.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Victor H. Quintana, & Grantham K.H. Pang: “Pattern Analysis in Power System State Estimation Problems”, Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ottawa, Canada, September 1990, pp. 1.5.1-1.5.6.

 

140.  Fernando E.N. Nasser, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Luís A.P. Araújo, Daniel Schwabe, Mário V.F. Pereira, & Alcir Monticelli: “Development of an Expert System for Long-Term Planning of Power Transmission Networks”, Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Expert Systems Application to Power Systems, Seattle, USA, July 1989, pp. 238-243.

 

141.  Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, Fernando E.N. Nasser, Luís A.P. Araújo, Daniel Schwabe, & Mário V.F. Pereira: “Sistema Protótipo para Planejamento da Expansão de Redes de Energia Elétrica”, Proceedings of the 5 Simpósio Brasileiro de Inteligência Artificial, Natal, Novembro 1988, pp. 50-60 (in portuguese).

 

142.  Ricardo B. Prada, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Maria L.V. Lisboa: “Solução do Fluxo de Potência pelo Método de Newton para Eliminação de Sobrecargas e Correção do Perfil de Tensão”, Proceedings of the IX Seminário Nacional de Produção e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica (SNPTEE), Belo Horizonte, Outubro 1987, GSP/42, 8 pages (in portuguese).

 

143.  Ricardo B. Prada, Alexandre P. Alves da Silva, & Maria L.V. Lisboa: “Eliminação de Sobrecargas e Correção do Perfil de Tensão no Fluxo de Potência Através de uma Relaxação do Método de Newton”, Proceedings of the X Congresso Nacional de Matemática Aplicada e Computacional, Gramado, Setembro 1987, pp. 761-765 (in portuguese).

 

5.d Research Grants

 

1 – “Electric Transmission Expansion Planning Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques”, CEPEL (Brazilian Electric Energy Research Center), May 1987 – July 1988.

2 – “Observability of the LIGHT’s Power System”, LIGHT (Electric Utility), September 1992 – January 1993.

3 – “Dynamic Load Modeling”, CEMIG (Electric Utility), March 1993 – February 1994.

4 – “Intelligent System Application to Power Systems”, CNPq (National Research Council), August 1993 – July 1995.

5 – “Short-Term Load Forecasting”, CEMIG (Electric Utility), August 1994 – February 1996.

6 – “Dynamic Load Model Identification”, FURNAS (Electric Utility), August 1994 – February 1996.

7 – “Transformer Models for High Frequencies and Their Applications in an Analog Simulator and in the EMTP”, FURNAS (Electric Utility), August 1994 – February 1996.

8 – “Application of Intelligent Hybrid Systems to Power System Operation and Planning”, CNPq (National Research Council), August 1995 – July 1997.

9 – “Electric System Maintenance Scheduling Based on Expert System”, CEPEL (Brazilian Electric Energy Research Center), April 1996 – March 1999.

10 – “Intelligent System Application to Electric System Operation and Planning”, FAPEMIG (State of Minas Gerais Research Funding Agency), June 1996 – June 1998.

11 – “Intelligent Systems in Electrical Engineering”, CNPq (National Research Council), January 1997 – December 1998.

12 – “On-Line Dynamic Security Assessment”, FURNAS (Electric Utility), May 1997 – October 1998.

13 – “Adaptive Short-Term Load Forecasting Based on Non-Parametric Neural Networks”, FURNAS (Electric Utility), May 1997 – October 1998.

14 – “Planning and Operation Under Uncertainties: Probabilistic and Fuzzy Modeling”, CEPEL (Brazilian Electric Energy Research Center), July 1997 – December 1997.

15 – “Evaluation of the Measurement System Accuracy for the Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo and São Paulo Areas”, ELETROBRAS (Electric Utility), December 1997 – January 1998.

16 – “Supervision, Analysis and Management of Large Scale Electric Power Systems”, FINEP (Brazilian Science and Technology Agency), January 1998 – December 1999.

17 – “Intelligent Computation Applied to the New Competitive Environment of Electrical Power Systems”, FINEP (Brazilian Science and Technology Agency), January 1999 – December 2002.

18 – “Electric System Maintenance Scheduling Based on Expert System – Phase 2”, CEPEL (Brazilian Electric Energy Research Center), April 1999 – March 2001.

19 – “Temperature Forecasting”, FURNAS (Electric Utility), June 1999 – October 1999.

20 – “Estimation of Electric Energy Service Interruption Costs”, ANEEL (Brazilian Electric Sector Regulatory Agency), August 1999 – May 2000.

21 – “Development of an On-Line Load Forecasting System for the Short-Term Horizon”, CEMIG (Electric Utility), October 2001 – May 2002.

22 – “River Flow and Electric Energy Marginal Cost Long-Term Forecasting”, PETROBRAS (Brazilian Oil Company), October 2002 – December 2003.

23 – “Fault Diagnosis Based on Data Mining”, CHESF (Electric Utility), December 2002 – November 2003.

24 – “An Integrated and Automatic System for Operation and Planning of Power Systems”, CNPq (National Research Council), August 2003 – July 2005.

25 – “Methodologies for Improving Power System Security and Reliability”, FAPERJ (State of Rio de Janeiro Research Funding Agency), January 2004 – December 2006.

26 – “Bus Load Medium-Term Forecasting”, COELBA (Electric Utility), May 2004 – April 2006.

27 – “Medium and Long Term Load Forecasting”, CNPq (National Research Council), May 2004 – April 2006.

28 – “Hourly Equivalent Temperature for Load Forecasting”, ONS (Brazilian ISO), June 2006 – November 2006.

29 – “Regularized Neural Models for Short-Term Load Forecasting”, CNPq (National Research Council), November 2006 – October 2008.

30 – “A New Framework for Operation Security Assessment”, CNPq (National Research Council), December 2007 – November 2009.

31 – “Real-Time Detection of Oil and Gas Cleaning Pigs”, PETROBRAS (Brazilian Oil Company), October 2008 – May 2009.

32 – “Data Filtering for Load Forecasting”, ONS (Brazilian ISO), November 2008 – June 2009.

33 – “Intelligent System for Fault Localization on Transmission Lines”, CNPq (National Research Council), December 2008 – November 2010.

 

6.      Service Activities

 

6.a Professional Societies

 

Senior Member, IEEE

Member, Intelligent System Application to Power (ISAP) Society Board of Directors, 2001-2007

Former Chairman, Brazilian Regional Interest Group of the IEEE Neural Network Council

Co-Founder and Former Chairman, Brazilian Neural Network Society

Former Chairman, Power Systems Committee of the Brazilian Society for Automation

 

6.b Department

 

Member, Advisory Committee, 2002 – Present

 

6.c Outside University

 

            Member of the National Research Council (CNPq) Commission for Electrical Engineering, 2001-2003

            Consultant to the following Federal and State Research Funding Agencies: CNPq, CAPES (Brazilian Ministry of Education), FINEP, FAPESP, FAPEMIG, FAPERJ, and NSF (USA)

            Ad hoc reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IET (IEE) Proceedings (Part-C), International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Electric Power Systems Research, and Journal of Energy (more than 100 papers reviewed in the last 5 years)

            Chairman of the Technical Program Committee of the First Brazilian Conference on Neural Networks, Itajubá, Minas Gerais, October 1994

            Chairman of the Technical Program Committee of the International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 1999

            Chairman of the Technical Program Committee of the First Brazilian Workshop on Intelligent Techniques Applied to Power Systems, São Luís, Maranhão, September 2005

            Chairman of the Technical Program Committee of the First Brazilian Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, October 2007

 

7.      Citation Report

 

Source: Publish or Perish (Copyright © 1990-2008 Tarma Software Research)

Date: January 9th, 2009

 

Papers:68, Citations:411, Years:21, Cites/year:19.57, Cites/paper:6.04/2.0/1, Cites/author:144.46, Papers/author:27.30, Authors/paper:3.00/3.0/3, h-index:10, g-index:17, hc-index:7, hI-index:3.13, hI-norm:6, AWCR:46.21, AW-index:6.80, AWCRpA:16.37

 

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            author = {IN Kassabalidis and MA El-Sharkawi and APA da Silva},

            title = {Dynamic Security Border Identification Using Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimization},

            journal = {IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS},

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            title = {Support vector machines for transient stability analysis of large-scale power systems},

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            title = {Data debugging for real-time power system monitoring based onpattern analysis},

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            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=535702},

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@article {pop0004,

            author = {APA da Silva and LS Moulin},

            title = {Confidence intervals for neural network based short-term loadforecasting},

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            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=898089},

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@article {pop0005,

            author = {AJR Reis and APA da Silva},

            title = {Feature extraction via multiresolution analysis for short-term load forecasting},

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            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1388509},

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@article {pop0006,

            author = {OAS Carpinteiro and AJR Reis and APA da Silva},

            title = {A hierarchical neural model in short-term load forecasting},

            journal = {Applied Soft Computing Journal},

            publisher = {Elsevier},

            url = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S156849460400050X},

            year = {2004},

            note = {18 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=6416446475299136715},

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@article {pop0007,

            author = {LS Moulin and APA da Silva and MA El-Sharkawi and RJ Marks},

            title = {Support vector and multilayer perceptron neural networks applied to power systems transient …},

            journal = {Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, 2002 IEEE},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1043580},

            year = {2002},

            note = {17 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=12688351073945032395},

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@article {pop0008,

            author = {… ACZ de Souza and G Lambert-Torres and AP Alves da Silva},

            title = {Difference between regular and deterministic chaos processes based on time analysis of load: an …},

            journal = {Electric Power Systems Research},

            publisher = {Elsevier},

            url = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S037877960000095X},

            year = {2000},

            note = {16 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=6734811431272233046},

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@article {pop0009,

            author = {AP Alves da Silva and AHF Insfran and PM da Silveira and G …},

            title = {Neural networks for fault location in substations},

            journal = {Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=484021},

            year = {1996},

            note = {14 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=3603226952066420869},

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@article {pop0010,

            author = {APA da Silva and UP Rodrigues and AJR Reis and LS Moulin},

            title = {NeuroDem-a neural network based short term demand forecaster},

            journal = {Power Tech Proceedings, 2001 IEEE Porto},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=964736},

            year = {2001},

            note = {10 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=1404991206280175746},

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@article {pop0011,

            author = {… Lambert-Torres and R Rossi and JA Jardini and APA da Silva …},

            title = {Power System Security Analysis based on Rough Classification},

            journal = {Rough Fuzzy Hybridization: A New Trend in Decision-Making},

            publisher = {Springer Verlag},

            year = {1999},

            note = {10 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=12744383575639056179},

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@article {pop0012,

            author = {… -Torres and GM Ribeiro and CIA Costa and AP Alves da Silva and …},

            title = {Knowledge engineering tool for training power-substation operators},

            journal = {Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=584348},

            year = {1997},

            note = {9 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=3410970482191833828},

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@article {pop0013,

            author = {AP Alves da Silva and C Ferreira and AC Zambroni de …},

            title = {A new constructive ANN and its application to electric loadrepresentation},

            journal = {Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=627860},

            year = {1997},

            note = {9 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=16660789817906683310},

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@article {pop0014,

            author = {JCS Souza and AM Leite da Silva and AP Alves da Silva},

            title = {Data visualisation and identification of anomalies in power systemstate estimation using artificial …},

            journal = {Generation, Transmission and Distribution, IEE Proceedings-},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=629503},

            year = {1997},

            note = {8 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=12220647281812069762},

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@article {pop0015,

            author = {AP Alves da Silva and VH Quintana},

            title = {Pattern analysis in power system state estimation},

            journal = {International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems},

            publisher = {Elsevier},

            url = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0142061595932776},

            year = {1995},

            note = {8 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=11963488729506930652},

}

@article {pop0016,

            author = {LS Moulin and MA El-Sharkawi and RJ Marks and APA da Silva},

            title = {Automatic Feature Extraction for Neural Network Based Power Systems Dynamic Security Evaluation},

            journal = {International Conference on Intelligent Systems Applied to …},

            year = {2001},

            note = {6 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=10613492970161481741},

}

@article {pop0017,

            author = {J Scharcanski and HC Shen and AP Alves da Silva},

            title = {Colour quantisation for colour texture analysis},

            journal = {Computers and Digital Techniques, IEE Proceedings-},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=210332},

            year = {1993},

            note = {6 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=13585469505722965498},

}

@article {pop0018,

            author = {G Lambert-Torres and APA da Silva and VH Quintana and LEB …},

            title = {Classification of power system operation point using rough settechniques},

            journal = {Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1996., IEEE International …},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=565401},

            year = {1996},

            note = {5 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=14681065620976405133},

}

@article {pop0019,

            author = {AHF Insfran and APA da Silva and G Lambert-Torres},

            title = {Fault diagnosis using fuzzy sets},

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            year = {1999},

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}

@article {pop0020,

            author = {JCS Souza and AM Leite da Silva and AP Alves da Silva},

            title = {Information Debugging in Forecasting-aided State Estimation Using a Pattern Analysis Approach},

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            year = {1996},

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}

@article {pop0021,

            author = {AP Alves da Silva and VH Quintana and GKH Pang},

            title = {Solving data acquisition and processing problems in power systemsusing a pattern analysis approach},

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            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=79357},

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}

@article {pop0022,

            author = {APA da Silva and PJ Abrao},

            title = {Applications of evolutionary computation in electric power systems},

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            url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1252337},

            year = {2002},

            note = {5 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=7318698228898980380},

}

@article {pop0023,

            author = {OAS Carpinteiro and AP Alves da Silva},

            title = {A Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map Model in Short-Term Load Forecasting},

            journal = {Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems},

            publisher = {Springer},

            url = {http://www.springerlink.com/index/U7112G27X46Q6266.pdf},

            year = {2001},

            note = {5 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=14819263669750837966},

}

@article {pop0024,

            author = {APA da SILVA and DM FALCAO and KY LEE},

            title = {Overview of Applications in Power Systems},

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            publisher = {books.google.com},

            url = {http://books.google.com/books?hl=en\&lr=\&id=ZHRTmJfyeVYC\&oi=fnd\&pg=PA237\&dq=A.P.+Alves+da+Silva+OR+A.+Alves+da+Silva+OR+A.P.A.+da+Silva+OR+A.P.A.+daSilva+OR+L.S.+Moulin+OR+A.P.A.+Silva+OR+A.P.+daSilva\&ots=z7im2HLOld\&sig=W44pk4-U-TBzqAEG5ytLNFuOc3k},

            year = {2007},

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}

@article {pop0025,

            author = {PJ Abrao and AP Alves da Silva and AC Zambroni de Souza},

            title = {Rule extraction from artificial neural networks for voltagesecurity analysis},

            journal = {Neural Networks, 2002. IJCNN'02. Proceedings of the 2002 …},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1007470},

            year = {2002},

            note = {4 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=365498019864237617},

}

@article {pop0026,

            author = {G Lambert-Torres and APA da Silva and VH Quintana and LE …},

            title = {Knowledge-base reduction based on rough set techniques},

            journal = {Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1996. Canadian …},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=548091},

            year = {1996},

            note = {4 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=12781621833003151050},

}

@article {pop0027,

            author = {LS Moulin and A da Silva},

            title = {Neural networks and support vector machines applied to power systems transient stability analysis},

            journal = {INT J ENG INTELL SYST ELECTIC ENG COMMUN},

            year = {2001},

            note = {4 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=914006099406992051},

}

@article {pop0028,

            author = {APA Silva and PC Nascimento and GL Torres and LEB da Silva},

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            journal = {Conf. Rec. IEEE-IAS Annu. Meeting},

            year = {1995},

            note = {3 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=12956607590459518980},

}

@article {pop0029,

            author = {FEN Nasser and APA Silva and LAP Araujo},

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}

@article {pop0030,

            author = {HS Carvalho and PC Nascimento and AP Alves da Silva and JCS …},

            title = {Neural networks based approach for reliability estimation},

            journal = {Electric Power Engineering, 1999. PowerTech Budapest 99. …},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=826613},

            year = {1999},

            note = {3 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=5023948856752359486},

}

@article {pop0031,

            author = {AP Alves da Silva and PJ Abrao},

            title = {Applications of evolutionary computation in electric power systems},

            journal = {Evolutionary Computation, 2002. CEC'02. Proceedings of the …},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1004389},

            year = {2002},

            note = {3 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=1873246796886611783},

}

@article {pop0032,

            author = {… -Torres and G Ribeiro and C Costa and A Alves-da-Silva and V …},

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}

@article {pop0033,

            author = {…  and G Lambert-Torres and EC Saturno and AP Alves da Silva and …},

            title = {Neural net adaptive schemes for DC motor drives},

            journal = {Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 1993., …},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=299144},

            year = {1993},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=18107812984476546624},

}

@article {pop0034,

            author = {APA da Silva and AJR Reis and MA El-Sharkawi and RJ Marks},

            title = {Enhancing neural network based load forecasting via preprocessing},

            journal = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent …},

            year = {2001},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=12649731308908931350},

}

@article {pop0035,

            author = {G Lambert-Torres and APA da Silva and LEB da Silva…},

            title = {Data mining into a control center database via rough set techniques},

            journal = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent …},

            year = {1997},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=12201543935646159606},

}

@article {pop0036,

            author = {… da Silva and GL Torres and EC Saturno and AP Alves da Silva},

            title = {Simulation of a neural net controller for motor drives},

            journal = {Neural Networks, 1995. Proceedings., IEEE International …},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=488095},

            year = {1995},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=4580191265542658686},

}

@article {pop0037,

            author = {GM Ribeiro and G Lambert-Torres and APA da Silva},

            title = {Expert system in power substation operation and control, IV SEPO},

            journal = {Brasil, Maio de},

            year = {1994},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=1743931817160184435},

}

@article {pop0038,

            author = {APA da Silva and AML da Silva and JCS de Souza and MB do …},

            title = {State Forecasting Based on Artificial Neural Networks},

            journal = {Proc. 11th PSCC},

            year = {1993},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=17148707826407244663},

}

@article {pop0039,

            author = {AP ALVES DA SILVA and VH QUINTANA and GKH PANG},

            title = {Associative memory models for data processing},

            journal = {International journal of electrical power \& energy systems},

            publisher = {cat.inist.fr},

            url = {http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN\&cpsidt=5613396},

            year = {1992},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=10294665503904876719},

}

@article {pop0040,

            author = {APA DA SILVA and DM FALCAO},

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            journal = {Modern Heuristic Optimization Techniques: Theory and …},

            publisher = {books.google.com},

            url = {http://books.google.com/books?hl=en\&lr=\&id=ZHRTmJfyeVYC\&oi=fnd\&pg=PA25\&dq=A.P.+Alves+da+Silva+OR+A.+Alves+da+Silva+OR+A.P.A.+da+Silva+OR+A.P.A.+daSilva+OR+L.S.+Moulin+OR+A.P.A.+Silva+OR+A.P.+daSilva\&ots=z7im2HLOld\&sig=3GHoCGAqoquD9SfCIVXARtykU9Y},

            year = {2007},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=8734793403049766078},

}

@article {pop0041,

            author = {APA da Silva and VH Quintana and GKH Pang},

            title = {Neural networks for topology determination of power systems},

            journal = {Proc. 1st Intern. Forum on Applications of Neural Networks …},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=10396409633009933262},

}

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            author = {AC Zambroni de Souza and AP Alves da Silva and JLA …},

            title = {A new contingency analysis approach for voltage collapse assessment},

            journal = {International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems},

            publisher = {Elsevier},

            url = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0142061503000309},

            year = {2003},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=123738529126219071},

}

@article {pop0043,

            author = {APA da Silva},

            title = {Overview of applications in power systems, Publication 02TP160},

            journal = {IEEE Power Engineering Society},

            year = {2002},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=10489703210485036685},

}

@misc {pop0044,

            author = {APA DASILVA},

            title = {IEEE POW TECHN C POR},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=1954231648531939708},

}

@article {pop0045,

            author = {APA da Silva},

            title = {Overcoming Limitations of NNs for On-Line DSA},

            journal = {Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2005. IEEE},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1489392},

            year = {2005},

            note = {2 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=812440772371389081},

}

@article {pop0046,

            author = {APA da Silva and AML da Silva and JCS de Souza and MB Do …},

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            journal = {Vol. I},

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}

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            author = {AP Alves da Silva and AM Leite da Silva and JCS de Souza …},

            title = {State forecasting based on artificial neural networks},

            journal = {Proc. IIth PSCC},

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            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=1473170848495621881},

}

@article {pop0048,

            author = {AP Alves da Silva and VH Quintana and GKH Pang},

            title = {A pattern analysis approach for topology determination, bad datacorrection and missing measurement …},

            journal = {Power Symposium, 1990. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second …},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

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            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=7405205579205143011},

}

@article {pop0049,

            author = {APA da Silva and C Ferreira and ACZ de Souza},

            title = {G. lambert-Torres. A new Constructive ANN and its Application to Electric Load Representation},

            journal = {IEEE Trans Power System},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=2079611082878327289},

}

@article {pop0050,

            author = {AP Alves da Silva and VH Quintana and GK Pang},

            title = {H. Apattern analysis approach for topology determination, bad data correction and missing …},

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            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=17039273834554494987},

}

@article {pop0051,

            author = {… da Silva and G Lambert-Torres and AP Alves da Silva},

            title = {Power substation supervisory control},

            journal = {Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1994.'Humans, Information and …},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=400185},

            year = {1994},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=12376389807109633936},

}

@article {pop0052,

            author = {IN Kassabalidis and MA El-Sharkawi and RJM II and LS Moulin},

            title = {AP Alves da silva,? Dynamic security border identi? cation using enhanced particle swarm …},

            journal = {IEEE Trans. Power Systems},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=9280233639715180441},

}

@article {pop0053,

            author = {HG Arango and G Lambert-Torres and APA da Silva},

            title = {Load evolution for power system distribution planning studies: anapproach using spatial disorder},

            journal = {Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1996., IEEE International …},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=565403},

            year = {1996},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=16695500991235197394},

}

@article {pop0054,

            author = {AP Alves da Silva and AHF Insfran and PM da Silveira},

            title = {Lambert-Torres, G},

            journal = {Neural networks for fault location in substations. IEEE …},

            year = {1996},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=757442918035472450},

}

@article {pop0055,

            author = {APA Da Silva and AHF Tnsfran and G Lambert-Torres},

            title = {Alarm processing based on associative neural memories with explanatory capability},

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            year = {1999},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=8061372963992591752},

}

@article {pop0056,

            author = {AHS Insfran and APA Silva and GL Torres},

            title = {Alarm Processing based on Associative Neural Memories with Explanation Capability},

            journal = {International Journal on Engineering Intelligent Systems},

            year = {1999},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=2533909260952756906},

}

@article {pop0057,

            author = {APA Silva and AHF Insfran and PM Silveira and G Lambert- …},

            title = {Neural networks for fault location on substations},

            journal = {1995 IEEE PES Summer Meeting},

            year = {1995},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=7131801212767170043},

}

@article {pop0058,

            author = {G Lambert-Torres and AP Alves da Silva and CIA Costa and AF …},

            title = {Short-term load forecasting: CEMIG power industry's approach},

            journal = {Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1997.'Computational …},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=633123},

            year = {1997},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=5311368903204011516},

}

@article {pop0059,

            author = {GL Torres and R Rossi and JA Jardini and APA da Silva and VH …},

            title = {Power System Security Analysis based on Rough Classification”},

            journal = {Rough Fuzzy Hybridization–A New Trend in Decision Making, SK …},

            year = {1999},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=15857248586126945902},

}

@article {pop0060,

            author = {LS Moulin and APA da Silva and MA El-Sharkawi and RJ Marks},

            title = {II:‘Neural networks and support vector machines applied to power systems transient stability analysis …},

            journal = {Int. J. Eng. Intell. Syst},

            year = {2001},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=4978431964785149044},

}

@article {pop0061,

            author = {VH Ferreira and AP Alves da Silva},

            title = {Complexity Control of Neural Models for Load Forecasting},

            journal = {Intelligent Systems Application to Power Systems, …},

            publisher = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},

            url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1599247},

            year = {2005},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=13409693086280898210},

}

@article {pop0062,

            author = {LS Moulin and AP Alves},

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            journal = {IEEE Trans on Power System},

            year = {2002},

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}

@article {pop0063,

            author = {LS Moulin},

            title = {SA da, MA El-Sharkawi and RJ Marks, Support vector and multilayer perceptron neural networks applied …},

            journal = {Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, 2002 IEEE},

            year = {2002},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=28123162126438102},

}

@article {pop0064,

            author = {AP Alves da Silva and C Ferreira},

            title = {Zambroni de Souza AC, et al. A new constructive ANN and its application to electric load …},

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            year = {1997},

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}

@book {pop0065,

            author = {G Lanbert-Torres and APA da Silva},

            title = {Classification of Power Operation Point Using Rough Set Techniques},

            publisher = {IEEE},

            year = {1996},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=12516883702246366467},

}

@book {pop0066,

            author = {APA da Silva},

            title = {Pattern Analysis and Parallel Distributed Processing in Power System State Estimation},

            publisher = {National Library of Canada= Bibliothèque nationale du Canada},

            year = {1992},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=16374244201049092647},

}

@misc {pop0067,

            author = {APA DASILVA},

            title = {IEEE POW TECH C PORT},

            note = {1 cites: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100\&hl=en\&lr=\&cites=13001959605982513801},

}

@article {pop0068,

            author = {APA da Silva},

            title = {Moulin (2001)‘Confidence intervals for neural network based short-term load forecasting’},

            journal = {IEEE Trans. Power Systems},

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}