A survey on multi-agent management approaches in the context of intelligent energy systems

Several papers deal with the topic of multi-agent solutions for the energy management in complex energy systems. According to the time scale, we distinguish two kinds of management: a reactive management (short-term) and an anticipative management (long-term). The objective of this paper is to propose a survey of the different multi-agent approaches, we thus propose a classification of existing management approaches according to the level of the system at which the decisions are made. The physical deployment of services´ steering shows that these services can be only of two types: independent and interdependent and gives hints about the adequate tools of management.