Listing 1 - 10 of 12 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
Transports within industrial logistics networks are planned strategically. Due to the existence of uncertainties an operational control of transports is necessary. Thereby, dispatchers are today not supported adequately. A control approach for dynamic, complex and multimodal transports is developed, which intends to support or automate the operational control. The approach has a decentral and heterarchical organization, in which the goods and means of transports are modeled as agents.
Agenten --- Transportsteuerung --- Logistiknetzwerk --- multi-agent system --- Transportnetzwerktransport control --- logistics network --- Multi-Agentensysteme --- transportation network --- agents
Choose an application
The synergy between artificial intelligence and power and energy systems is providing promising solutions to deal with the increasing complexity of the energy sector. Multi-agent systems, in particular, are widely used to simulate complex problems in the power and energy domain as they enable modeling dynamic environments and studying the interactions between the involved players. Multi-agent systems are suitable for dealing not only with problems related to the upper levels of the system, such as the transmission grid and wholesale electricity markets, but also to address challenges associated with the management of distributed generation, renewables, large-scale integration of electric vehicles, and consumption flexibility. Agent-based approaches are also being increasingly used for control and to combine simulation and emulation by enabling modeling of the details of buildings’ electrical devices, microgrids, and smart grid components. This book discusses and highlights the latest advances and trends in multi-agent energy systems simulation. The addressed application topics include the design, modeling, and simulation of electricity markets operation, the management and scheduling of energy resources, the definition of dynamic energy tariffs for consumption and electrical vehicles charging, the large-scale integration of variable renewable energy sources, and mitigation of the associated power network issues.
EV charging --- multi-agent system --- digital twin --- customer satisfaction indicator --- smart microgrid --- energy management system --- real-time optimization --- immune system algorithm --- economic dispatch --- energy consumption --- wireless sensor network --- cooperation --- collaboration --- ontology --- energy sector --- scoping review --- decision-aid --- distributed energy resources --- distribution system operator --- reactive power management --- uncertainty --- day-ahead market --- balancing market --- bilateral trading --- market design --- variable renewable energy --- agent-based simulation --- MATREM system --- congestion management --- dynamic tariff --- agent-based distribution networks --- demand response --- routing protocols --- performance parameters --- Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
Choose an application
Complex systems with symmetry arise in many fields, at various length scales, including financial markets, social, transportation, telecommunication and power grid networks, world and country economies, ecosystems, molecular dynamics, immunology, living organisms, computational systems, and celestial and continuum mechanics. The emergence of new orders and structures in complex systems means symmetry breaking and transitions from unstable to stable states. Modeling complexity has attracted many researchers from different areas, dealing both with theoretical concepts and practical applications. This Special Issue fills the gap between the theory of symmetry-based dynamics and its application to model and analyze complex systems.
multi-agent system (MAS) --- reinforcement learning (RL) --- mobile robots --- function approximation --- Opportunistic complex social network --- cooperative --- neighbor node --- probability model --- social relationship --- adapted PageRank algorithm --- PageRank vector --- networks centrality --- multiplex networks --- biplex networks --- divided difference --- radius of convergence --- Kung–Traub method --- local convergence --- Lipschitz constant --- Banach space --- fractional calculus --- Caputo derivative --- generalized Fourier law --- Laplace transform --- Fourier transform --- Mittag–Leffler function --- non-Fourier heat conduction --- Mei symmetry --- conserved quantity --- adiabatic invariant --- quasi-fractional dynamical system --- non-standard Lagrangians --- complex systems --- symmetry-breaking --- bifurcation theory --- complex networks --- nonlinear dynamical systems
Choose an application
The Special Issue Distributed Energy Resources Management 2018 includes 13 papers, and is a continuation of the Special Issue Distributed Energy Resources Management. The success of the previous edition shows the unquestionable relevance of distributed energy resources in the operation of power and energy systems at both the distribution level and at the wider power system level. Improving the management of distributed energy resources makes it possible to accommodate the higher penetration of intermittent distributed generation and electric vehicle charging. Demand response programs, namely the ones with a distributed nature, allow the consumers to contribute to the increased system efficiency while receiving benefits. This book addresses the management of distributed energy resources, with a focus on methods and techniques to achieve an optimized operation, in order to aggregate the resources namely in the scope of virtual power players and other types of aggregators, and to remunerate them. The integration of distributed resources in electricity markets is also addressed as an enabler for their increased and efficient use.
n/a --- virtual power plant --- bidding strategy --- local flexibility market --- multi-period optimal power flow --- flexibility service --- occupant comfort --- unbalanced networks --- decentralized energy management system --- autonomous control --- optimization --- energy storage --- microgrids --- energy efficiency --- distributed energy --- control system --- DSM --- optimal scheduling --- adaptability --- synergistic optimization strategy --- teaching-learning --- distributed generation --- energy storage system --- stackelberg dynamic game --- IoT (Internet of Things) --- supply and demand --- comprehensive benefits --- distributed generator --- frequency bus-signaling --- active distribution networks --- swarm intelligence --- wind --- multi-agent technology --- solar --- power system management --- fault-tolerant control --- indoor environment quality --- multi-temporal optimal power flow --- multi-agent synergetic estimation --- smart grids --- local energy trading --- active power control --- prosumer --- microgrid --- trade agreements --- healthy building --- smart grid --- nonlinear control --- algorithm design and analysis --- batteries --- droop control --- distributed energy resources --- aggregator --- multi-agent system --- frequency control --- particle swarm optimization --- distribution system operator --- building climate control --- low voltage networks --- demand Response --- clustering --- distributed coordination --- demand-side management --- demand response
Choose an application
This book focuses on the recent development of forecasting and risk management techniques for electricity markets. In addition, we discuss research on new trading platforms and environments using blockchain-based peer-to-peer (P2P) markets and computer agents. The book consists of two parts. The first part is entitled “Forecasting and Risk Management Techniques” and contains five chapters related to weather and electricity derivatives, and load and price forecasting for supporting electricity trading. The second part is entitled “Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Electricity Trading System and Strategy” and contains the following five chapters related to the feasibility and enhancement of P2P energy trading from various aspects.
Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- electricity markets --- non-parametric regression --- minimum variance hedge --- spline basis functions --- cyclic cubic spline --- weather derivatives --- n/a --- distributed energy resources (DER) --- P2P energy trading --- cooperative mechanism --- renewable energy --- multi agent system --- blockchain --- cashflow management of electricity businesses --- electricity derivatives and forwards --- retailers and power producers --- solar power and thermal energy --- optimal hedging using nonparametric techniques --- empirical simulations --- peer-to-peer energy trading --- distributed energy resources --- microgrid --- digital grid --- bidding strategy --- electricity price --- electricity load --- electricity price forecasting --- wind energy --- day-ahead market --- intra-day market --- balancing power market --- peer to peer energy market --- hardware control --- demonstration experiment --- home energy management systems --- electric vehicles --- bidding agent --- electric vehicle --- functional autoregressive model --- functional principle component analysis --- vector autoregressive model --- functional final prediction error (FFPE) --- naive method --- P2P electricity market --- market maker --- liquidity --- price fluctuation --- artificial market simulation
Choose an application
Research on intelligent agents and multi-agent systems has matured during the past decade, and many effective applications of this technology are currently being deployed. Although computational approaches for multi-agent systems have mainly emerged in the past few decades, scholars have been prolific with regard to the variety of methods proposed to solve this paradigm. Different communities have emerged with multi-agent systems as their main research topic. Multi-agent systems allow the development of distributed and intelligent applications in complex and dynamic environments. Systems of this kind play a crucial role in life, evidenced by the broad range of applied areas involved in their use, including manufacturing, management sciences, e-commerce, and biotechnology. There are many reasons for the interest of researchers in this new discipline. Firstly, computational systems have gradually shifted towards a distributed paradigm where heterogeneous entities with different goals can enter and leave the system dynamically and interact with each other. Secondly, new computational systems should be able to negotiate with one another, typically on the behalf of humans, in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements. As a consequence, autonomy, interaction, mobility, and openness are key concepts studied in the area. The purpose of this book is to document some of the advances made in this paradigm and attempt to show the current state of this technology by analyzing different aspects in addition its possible application in various domains. This review of the current state-of-the-art does not intend to make an exhaustive exploration of all the current existing works but, rather, to try to give an overview of the research in agent technology, showing the high level of activity of this area.
multi-robot --- consensus problem --- formation control --- noise --- time delay --- unmanned surface vehicles --- multi-agent system --- training system --- genetic-based fuzzy rule learning --- intelligent autonomous control --- modeling and simulation --- multi-agent systems --- smart city development --- spatiotemporal modeling --- actor–network theory --- geoparticipation --- social interactions --- simulation model --- photovoltaic energy --- parameter fine-tuning --- self-reported behaviour --- predictive model --- multi-agent planning and scheduling --- potential game --- equilibrium selection --- interoperability --- multiagent systems --- organizational models --- agent-based collective intelligence --- multi-agent complex systems --- scale-free properties --- power law distribution --- biologically inspired approaches and methods --- collective foraging --- physics-based simulation --- methodologies for agent-based systems --- multi-robot simulation --- discrete event simulator --- agent and multi-agent applications --- classification --- prediction --- multi-agent --- wisdom-of-crowds --- Hollywood --- feature-extension --- collective-intelligence --- swarm --- educational games --- game design --- situated psychological agents --- education --- competences --- decision support system --- agent based modeling and simulation --- production scheduling --- green coffee supply chain --- agent-based modeling --- agent-based simulation --- decision support
Choose an application
Distributed generation is becoming more important in electrical power systems due to the decentralization of energy production. Within this new paradigm, new approaches for the operation and planning of distributed power generation are yet to be explored. This book deals with distributed energy resources, such as renewable-based distributed generators and energy storage units, among others, considering their operation, scheduling, and planning. Moreover, other interesting aspects such as demand response, electric vehicles, aggregators, and microgrid are also analyzed. All these aspects constitute a new paradigm that is explored in this Special Issue.
Benders’ decomposition --- distributed generation planning (DGP) --- two-stage stochastic mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) --- renewable energy sources (RES) --- micro-grid --- energy management system --- IEC 61850 --- 5G --- LoRa --- multi-agent system --- isolated AC/DC hybrid microgrid --- two-layer consensus method --- dynamic economic dispatch --- distributed hierarchical strategy --- MILP optimization --- allocation --- renewable energy sources --- system modeling --- energy storages --- energy curtailment --- mathematical programming --- small scale distributed generation --- distribution networks --- active power management --- battery degradation --- electric vehicles --- electric vehicles aggregator --- electricity markets --- stochastic programming --- combined economic emission dispatch --- environment-based demand response --- emission constraints --- penalty factor --- weighting update artificial bee colony --- distribution network planning --- energy storage system --- multi-objective optimization --- optimal location --- risk assessment --- flexibility --- distributed energy resources --- distribution system operators --- local services --- system services --- arbitrage --- frequency control
Choose an application
At present, the impact of distributed energy resources in the operation of power and energy systems is unquestionable at the distribution level, but also at the whole power system management level. Increased flexibility is required to accommodate intermittent distributed generation and electric vehicle charging. Demand response has already been proven to have a great potential to contribute to an increased system efficiency while bringing additional benefits, especially to the consumers. Distributed storage is also promising, e.g., when jointly used with the currently increasing use of photovoltaic panels. This book addresses the management of distributed energy resources. The focus includes methods and techniques to achieve an optimized operation, to aggregate the resources, namely, by virtual power players, and to remunerate them. The integration of distributed resources in electricity markets is also addressed as a main drive for their efficient use.
autonomous operation --- energy management system --- stochastic programming --- co-generation --- Unit Commitment (UC) --- distributed system --- demand-side energy management --- virtual power plant --- Powell direction acceleration method --- average consensus algorithm (ACA) --- transmission line --- interval optimization --- renewable energy --- microgrids --- scheduling --- business model --- non-cooperative game (NCG) --- domestic energy management system --- time series --- energy trading --- decision-making under uncertainty --- Demand Response Unit Commitment (DRUC) --- real-time simulation --- distributed generation --- discrete wavelet transformer --- microgrid (MG) --- probabilistic programming --- optimal bidding --- ac/dc hybrid microgrid --- building energy flexibility --- storage --- uncertainty --- Cat Swarm Optimization (CSO) --- advance and retreat method --- multiplier method --- microgrid --- Demand Response (DR) --- electricity markets --- aggregators --- fault localization --- aggregator --- consensus algorithm --- black start --- microgrid operation --- local controller --- thermal comfort --- diffusion strategy --- optimal operation --- power system restoration (PSR) --- energy flexibility --- ARIMA --- pricing strategy --- clustering --- adaptive droop control --- multi-agent system (MAS) --- hierarchical game --- energy flexibility potential --- demand response
Choose an application
This Special Issue ""Multi-Agent Systems"" gathers original research articles reporting results on the steadily growing area of agent-oriented computing and multi-agent systems technologies. After more than 20 years of academic research on multi-agent systems (MASs), in fact, agent-oriented models and technologies have been promoted as the most suitable candidates for the design and development of distributed and intelligent applications in complex and dynamic environments. With respect to both their quality and range, the papers in this Special Issue already represent a meaningful sample of the most recent advancements in the field of agent-oriented models and technologies. In particular, the 17 contributions cover agent-based modeling and simulation, situated multi-agent systems, socio-technical multi-agent systems, and semantic technologies applied to multi-agent systems. In fact, it is surprising to witness how such a limited portion of MAS research already highlights the most relevant usage of agent-based models and technologies, as well as their most appreciated characteristics. We are thus confident that the readers of Applied Sciences will be able to appreciate the growing role that MASs will play in the design and development of the next generation of complex intelligent systems. This Special Issue has been converted into a yearly series, for which a new call for papers is already available at the Applied Sciences journal’s website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Multi-Agent_Systems_2019.
multi-agent systems --- agent development framework --- semantic web --- online double auction --- agent development methodology --- intelligent agents --- travel behavior --- computational accountability --- coordinated control --- directed graph --- agent methodologies --- surface vehicle --- SEA_ML --- sociogram --- formation tracking --- socio-technical systems --- agreement technologies --- electronic bartering system --- delay --- social commitments --- human-machine interaction --- regression models --- collision avoidance --- electric vehicles --- mechanism design --- model-driven development --- agent technology --- multi agent systems --- computer science --- 3D representation --- multiagent systems --- scaled consensus --- multi-agent simulation --- multiple passive agents --- type-2 fuzzy inference system --- Artificial Intelligence --- bike sharing systems (BSS) --- trajectory mining --- Mobile Robot Navigation --- open data --- RBFNNs --- agent-based programming --- methodologies for agent-based systems --- socio–technical systems --- underactuated vehicle --- BDI agents --- autonomous agents --- Behavior Trees (BTs) --- coordination models --- pedestrian environment --- person tracking --- cognitive disabilities --- coordination --- commuting --- genetic algorithm --- ontology --- Genetic Programming (GP) --- user interaction levels --- intelligent hybrid systems --- complex network --- agent-oriented technologies --- agent-based modeling --- network management --- behavior modeling --- semantic web service --- mobile communication --- smart cities --- mobile device agent --- organizational model --- [-5]agent-based simulation --- agent-based social simulation --- agent-based simulation --- data visualization --- linked data --- ambient intelligence --- orientation --- velocity obstacle --- multi-agent system --- kinodynamic planning --- agent-based modelling --- charging stations --- organizations and institutions --- agent behavior --- tree mining --- agent-oriented software engineering --- carpooling --- perishable goods
Choose an application
This self-contained introduction to the distributed control of robotic networks offers a distinctive blend of computer science and control theory. The book presents a broad set of tools for understanding coordination algorithms, determining their correctness, and assessing their complexity; and it analyzes various cooperative strategies for tasks such as consensus, rendezvous, connectivity maintenance, deployment, and boundary estimation. The unifying theme is a formal model for robotic networks that explicitly incorporates their communication, sensing, control, and processing capabilities--a model that in turn leads to a common formal language to describe and analyze coordination algorithms. Written for first- and second-year graduate students in control and robotics, the book will also be useful to researchers in control theory, robotics, distributed algorithms, and automata theory. The book provides explanations of the basic concepts and main results, as well as numerous examples and exercises. Self-contained exposition of graph-theoretic concepts, distributed algorithms, and complexity measures for processor networks with fixed interconnection topology and for robotic networks with position-dependent interconnection topology Detailed treatment of averaging and consensus algorithms interpreted as linear iterations on synchronous networks Introduction of geometric notions such as partitions, proximity graphs, and multicenter functions Detailed treatment of motion coordination algorithms for deployment, rendezvous, connectivity maintenance, and boundary estimation
Robotics. --- Computer algorithms. --- Robots --- Automation --- Machine theory --- Robot control --- Robotics --- Algorithms --- Control systems. --- Computer algorithms --- Control systems --- 1-center problem. --- Adjacency matrix. --- Aggregate function. --- Algebraic connectivity. --- Algebraic topology (object). --- Algorithm. --- Analysis of algorithms. --- Approximation algorithm. --- Asynchronous system. --- Bellman–Ford algorithm. --- Bifurcation theory. --- Bounded set (topological vector space). --- Calculation. --- Cartesian product. --- Centroid. --- Chebyshev center. --- Circulant matrix. --- Circumscribed circle. --- Cluster analysis. --- Combinatorial optimization. --- Combinatorics. --- Communication complexity. --- Computation. --- Computational complexity theory. --- Computational geometry. --- Computational model. --- Computer simulation. --- Computer vision. --- Connected component (graph theory). --- Connectivity (graph theory). --- Consensus (computer science). --- Control function (econometrics). --- Differentiable function. --- Dijkstra's algorithm. --- Dimensional analysis. --- Directed acyclic graph. --- Directed graph. --- Discrete time and continuous time. --- Disk (mathematics). --- Distributed algorithm. --- Doubly stochastic matrix. --- Dynamical system. --- Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. --- Estimation. --- Euclidean space. --- Function composition. --- Hybrid system. --- Information theory. --- Initial condition. --- Instance (computer science). --- Invariance principle (linguistics). --- Invertible matrix. --- Iteration. --- Iterative method. --- Kinematics. --- Laplacian matrix. --- Leader election. --- Linear dynamical system. --- Linear interpolation. --- Linear programming. --- Lipschitz continuity. --- Lyapunov function. --- Markov chain. --- Mathematical induction. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Mobile robot. --- Motion planning. --- Multi-agent system. --- Network model. --- Network topology. --- Norm (mathematics). --- Numerical integration. --- Optimal control. --- Optimization problem. --- Parameter (computer programming). --- Partition of a set. --- Percolation theory. --- Permutation matrix. --- Polytope. --- Proportionality (mathematics). --- Quantifier (logic). --- Quantization (signal processing). --- Robustness (computer science). --- Scientific notation. --- Sensor. --- Set (mathematics). --- Simply connected space. --- Simulation. --- Simultaneous equations. --- State space. --- State variable. --- Stochastic matrix. --- Stochastic. --- Strongly connected component. --- Synchronous network. --- Theorem. --- Time complexity. --- Topology. --- Variable (mathematics). --- Vector field.
Listing 1 - 10 of 12 | << page >> |
Sort by
|