Envisioning power system data: Concepts and a prototype system state representation

Journal Article · Sun Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1993 · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/59.260890· OSTI ID:5738992

Mahadev, P M; Christie, R D ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)

Practical use of computational tools requires that people be able to understand the results the tools produced. This is a particular problem for real world power systems because of their massive amount of data, and because existing representational methods do not provide quick and efficient communication of the qualitative information contained in that data. Instead they require users to create internal, mental representations of the data and then analyze them to extract desired information. Physical realization of these internal representations--a visualization of the data--should provide a break-through in ease of comprehension. Full graphics user interfaces now have the hardware to make this possible, but adequate representations have not yet been developed. This paper discusses the characteristics of good representations, and provides an example of a possible graphical representation of power system operating state.

• OSTI ID: 5738992
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) Vol. 8:3; ISSN ITPSEG; ISSN 0885-8950
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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