The remainder of the paper is structured as follows.
Section ‘Theory foundation of GDSS for backbone-network reconfiguration’ describes restoration strategies, path searching method
and theories of MADM. The group decision support system is realized
in Section ‘Realization of GDSS for backbone-network recon-
figuration’; in Section ‘Case study’, a subsystem of western
Shandong power system of China is utilized to demonstrate the
feasibility and practicability of the proposed system. Finally,
Section ‘Conclusion’ concludes all this paper.