Red Planet consultants have written a number of informational technical papers and presentations. This is a list of the most current papers and presentations available for your information and to download. Click on each link to see the entire presentation:

• "Planned Outages in Southern California" by John Miller
  - Presented at Distributech 2004, Orlando, FL
  This paper addresses the steps taken by a major utility in southern california to both plan outages and to disseminate information from their GIS to the public and emergency services.
• "GIS Data Integrity for Solid Outage Management" by Darren Payne
  - Presented at the GE Energy Users Conference, 2003 in New Orleans, LA
  Darren covers data QA challenges when implementing an OMS.
• "Consolidating Multiple Smaworld Physical Network Inventory™ Databases" by John Miller
  - Presented at the GE Energy Users Conference, 2003 in New Orleans, LA
  This paper examines the problem of combining multiple different datasets in PNI in terms of data consistency and in aligning the template and specifications datasets.
• "Data Conflation" by PK SenthilKumar and Darren Payne
  - Presented at GE Network Solutions 2002 in Keystone, CO
  This presentation looks at different types of spatial conflation problems that face a utility's IT organization, identifying schedule constraints and other challenges.
• "Backplane Modeling" by John Miller
  - Presented at GE Network Solutions 2002 in Keystone, CO
  This presentation explores various solutions employed to model equipment not supported in the Physical Network Inventory product.
• "Smallworld PowerOn® Software Dos and Don'ts' by Todd Sturn
  Todd shares some general "dos" and not so many "don'ts" for implementing the Smallworld PowerOn® product.
• "Virtual Reality and Distributed GIS" by PK SenthilKumar
  - Presented at GITA 2001 in San Diego, CA
  PK illustrates ways of integrating Virtual Reality and GIS. He also examines the use of Internet as a medium for data accessibility and data sharing.
• "Outage Management Systems for the Masses; a Web-based Approach Background" by Paul Long
  - Presented at GITA 2001 in San Diego, CA
  This paper describes a successful project undertaken at First Energy, Inc. (formerly GPU Energy) where spatial web-based technologies have been integrated with the Smallworld PowerOn OMS software to provide powerful remote dispatching capabilities.
• "Comments in Code" by Todd Sturn
  Todd tackles the thorny issue of comments in code. This paper examines the arguments for and against commenting, discussing how they add value, and explaining how to turn comments from an art form into a pseudo-science.
• "Translating Data from DGN Format to Smallworld: Key Points" by Darren Payne
  Darren discusses various options and key issues surrounding the translation of Microstation Design Files (DGNs) to a GENS data-repository, including some tips, methods and problem areas.
• "Parallel Processing" by John Miller
  - Presented at GENS 2001 in Atlanta, GA
  This presentation describes the implementation of a concept to drastically speed-up and enhance data-intensive batch processes by utilizing Parallel Processing on multiple Magik clients.