An autonomous agent-based framework for self-healing power grid

Reliable, secure and robust power grid network is a necessity for crucial financial, industrial and business networks. Since national electrical grid, telecommunication, information networks and transportation networks are interdependent critical infrastructures, having an agent-based self-healing framework to reduce cascading failures through the networks and finding reasonable solution for potential faults - would be an essential asset. In response to this need we propose a self-healing framework that employs advanced failure diagnosis techniques along with autonomous Web services to provide temporary recovery solutions. Furthermore, it provides a cognitive planning cycle to find ultimate corrective solutions as well as evaluation service to verify the effectiveness and performance of the final solution.