This comprises the proceedings of an important conference in the field of computer applications in the electronic power industry. The work includes 34 technical papers and four survey papers covering areas of power systems computation such as the state of the art of numerical relaying, electric resource acquisition, and neural network applications to power systems and its relationship to symbolic methods. One of the aims of the conference is to bring together people from universities, utilities, and industries to discuss problems of mutual interest in the power systems computer application field.