Context-awareness in the deregulated electric energy market:an agent-based approach

摘要

Multiagent systems are commonly used for simulation of new paradigms of energy distribution. Especiallyrnwhen considering Smart Grids, the autonomicity deployed by goal-driven agents implies the need for beingrnaware of multiple aspects connected to the energy distribution context. With ‘context’, we refer to thernoutside world variables such as weather, stock market trends, location of the users, government actions,rnand so on; therefore, an architecture highly context-aware is needed. We propose a model in which everyrnimportant factor concerning the electric energy distribution is presented by modeling context-aware agentsrnable to identify the impact of these factors. Moreover, some tests have been performed regarding the webrnservice integration in which agents contracting energy will automatically retrieve data to be used in adaptivernand collaborative aspects; an explicative example is represented by the retrieval of weather forecasting thatrnprovides input on ongoing demand and data for the predicted availability (in case of photovoltaic or windrnpowered environments). Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.