The main BUHO goal is it to provide assistance in Electric Market monitoring, providing an interpretation of the market trends.

BUHO is an Intelligent Observation System, build upon artificial intelligence techniques for pattern recognition in data analysis and allowing for the creation of a set of rules to provide support or to modify the offering creation strategies. It uses a conceptual hierarchical structure to transform information into knowledge.

BUHO uses as set of observations historic prices of the energy market, analyzes these prices by means of a cluster classification and finally identifies potential anomalies, ranked by graveness.

The anomalies detected by BUHO are organized in the following categories:

Statistical anomalies: The observed parameters are incompatible with the probability distributions associated with the observables. Expected values are updated from recent values using Bayes theorem.

Correlation anomalies: Observation of discrepancies in the expected correlation between pairs of variables.

Strategic anomalies: The observations are in contradiction with the forecasted equilibriums of the Game Theory model.

Thermical anomalies: The results for the thermical generators show anomalies with respect the current use of this technology

Hydroelectric anomalies: The results for hydroelectric generatos are in contradiction with what is to be expected with a rational use of hydroelectric system compatible with the current storage and pluviometry conditions

The interface uses agents dialoguing in English or Spanish using natural language and voice emission to save user time, to the people in charge of daily offerings.

BUHO in depth (PDF 65 Kb)