Computerized Operation of Power Systems [antikvár]

FOREWORD The index of technological progress of a nation is, in this day and age, alsó a baromét er by which to judge its de— gree of development. The two factors go hand-in-hand in any national economic growth. Technology is a negotiable asset equal to any other. Hence the natural preocupation of any developing, or underdeveloped, country searching for a technology of its own, or at least attempting to reach a stage compatible with world progress. In all of this there is a veritable race against time. On the one hand the developed countries searching for new techniques and new discoveries, and on the other hand the others trying to overcome the already existing differences, To the technicians, engineers, researchers, and scientists remains the challenge of keeping pace with this whole revolution, while, at the same time, the administrators and public of-ficials are left with the problem of bypassing certain stages and keeping the advances compatible with the possibiüties of their own enterprises or nations, Along with studies and research there exists constant need for interchange, for exchange of ideas, for the presenta-tion of programs and the knowledge of what is being done and what is being realized, in order to avoid the risk of totál obsolescence, Constantly, symposiums are held, as well as courses, seminars and other activities, in order that the pace may be kept up. The area of electric power systems does not escape this rule, Problems which, ten years ago, were only timidly men-tioned in revolutionary works, began attracting researchers until they reached the conference tables. And precisely, the case of the utilization of computers in the operation of electrical power systems. A relatively new field, the Computerized Operation of Electric Power Systems, has warranted two reunions to dates "Real-Time Control of Electric Power Systems", Brown - Boveri