ISAP History
ISAP is an international organization that originated in 1987 as a series of International
Conferences on Expert System Applications to Power System (ESAP) and the International
Forum on Applications of Neural Networks to Power Systems (ANNPS). Earlier ESAP conferences
were held in Sweden and Finland, USA, Japan and Australia. The earlier ANNPS conferences
were held in Seattle, USA and Yokohama, Japan. The first integrated conference, ISAP'94 was
held September 5-9, 1994 in Montpellier, France. The eighth meeting in the series of
conference, ISAP'96 was held in Orlando, Florida USA. ISAP'97 was held in Seoul, Korea,
and ISAP'99 met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 4-8, 1999. ISAP2001 was held in Budapest,
Hungary, 18-21 June 2001. ISAP'03 was held in Lemnos, Greece, August 2003. The 13th ISAP
was held in Washington DC, USA, November 6-12 2005 and the 14th ISAP was held in Kaohsiung,
Taiwan, November 4-8 2007. ISAP2009 will be held in Curitiba, Brazil.
