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Portuguese scientists want to manage energy using computational intelligence (Diário Digital)
Managing energy through computational intelligence, similarly to what happens with a human brain – this is Portugal’s goal. Even though the country is pioneer in various energy solutions, such as smart grids or the large scale integration of renewable energies without prejudice to the supply safety, Portugal faces some problems, such as security or cyber security or big data related to energy communication issues.
For that reason, and because they believe that cognitive architectures – such as those in the human brain – are useful in power systems, about 100 worldwide renowned national and international experts in the areas of energy and intelligent systems will travel to Porto to discuss these issues.
The goal with this conference is to discuss if using intelligent tools in power systems is a goal, a key tool, a vision or a dream, and then generate solutions to apply in Portugal and export them worldwide through companies.
According to Vladimiro Miranda, member of the Board of the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) and chairman of ISAP (Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems, Conference and Debate), Portugal is at the forefront in terms of energy.
«A lot of the concepts we developed several years ago, such as smart grids, are now being replicated in European projects. An example of that is the concept of Energy Box and the way it was implemented in Évora by the EDP», explains the member of the Board of INESC TEC.
The guest of honour is José Carlos Príncipe, one of the world’s leading experts in Computational Neuroengineering, distinguished with the title of IEEE Fellow (the highest professional degree awarded by this North-American institution), professor at the University of Florida and founder of the Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory. On 14 September, José Carlos Príncipe will be opening the discussion with the question “Are cognitive architectures useful in power systems applications?”.
Organised by INESC TEC, ISAP (http://isap2015.inesctec.eu/) will take place at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), between 11 and 17 September.
Experts from
North-America, Japan, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom,
among others, with be joining Portuguese researchers to find solutions to these
problems and to promote cross-fertilisation between the power systems and intelligent
systems communities.
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