Agents negotiating for load balancing of electricity use

Author

Brazier, Frances ; Cornelissen, Frank ; Gustavsson, Rune ; Jonker, Catholijn M. ; Lindeberg, Olle ; Polak, Bianca ; Treur, Jan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Vrije Univ., Amsterdam, Netherlands

fYear

1998

fDate

26-29 May 1998

Firstpage

622

Lastpage

629

Abstract

Emerging technologies allowing two-way communication between utility companies and their customers, as well as with smart equipment, are changing the rules of the energy market. Deregulation makes it even more demanding for utility companies to create new business processes for mutual benefit. Dynamic load management of the power grid is essential to make better and more cost-effective use of electricity production capabilities, and to increase customer satisfaction. The compositional development method DESIRE has been used to analyse, design, implement and verify a multi-agent system capable of negotiation for load management

Keywords

cooperative systems; electricity supply industry; load management; power engineering computing; software agents; DESIRE; agent negotiation; business processes; compositional development method; cost-effective; customer satisfaction; deregulation; dynamic load management; electricity use; load balancing; multi-agent system; smart equipment; two-way communication; utility companies; Companies; Computer science; Consumer behavior; Costs; Energy consumption; Load management; Mathematics; Production systems; Protocols; Uniform resource locators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1998. Proceedings. 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

ISSN

1063-6927

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8292-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.1998.679850

Filename

679850