Industrial implementation of intelligent system techniques for nuclear power plant condition monitoring

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 7432-7440

  West, G M ^a   McArthur, S D J ^a   Towle, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b EDF ENERGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agglomerative hierarchical clustering; Condition monitoring; Nuclear; Rule based reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED GAS-COOLED REACTORS; AGGLOMERATIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; BRITISH ENERGIES; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; CONDITION-MONITORING DATA; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; DECISION SUPPORTS; INDUSTRIAL IMPLEMENTATION; KEY FEATURE; LABOUR-INTENSIVE; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; NUCLEAR; NUCLEAR OPERATORS; ROUTINE INSPECTION; RULE BASED REASONING; RULE-BASED EXPERT SYSTEM;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; GAS COOLED REACTORS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; REACTOR CORES; TRACE ANALYSIS;

CONDITION MONITORING;

EID: 84857645686     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.01.107     Document Type: Article

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