Context-Aware Service-Oriented Architecture for Power Distribution Systems

This paper introduces context-aware adaptation as an important part of power distribution architectures. In our view context-awareness is a necessary part of administering the business policies concerning power distribution and is orthogonal to the core engineering aspects of power distribution. By decoupling the engineering logic from the business aspects we can plug in different adaptation strategies within the same engineering approach to power distribution. Alternately, the same adaptation strategy may be applicable to different engineering applications as well. We regard power distribution as a service and accordingly we provide a service-oriented architecture in which context-awareness enforces adaptation conforming to business and security issues.