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PAAMS 2014: Highlights of Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection pp 226–237Cite as

The Proper Role of Agents in Future Resilient Smart Grids

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Smart Grids are in focus of several international R&D past and present efforts since at least a decade. Smart Grids is a well-known metaphor for future power grids. However, the meaning, or semantics of the concept has, naturally, changed due to increased understanding of the inherent complexities of the subject matter. The driving forces behind the efforts on Smart Grids include:

  • Demands of integrating new energy sources such as Distributed Energy Resources (DER) and Renewable Energy Resources (RES) in a massive way into generation, transmission and distribution of future energy systems.

  • Establishment of a de-regulated customer oriented energy markets, including new types of energy based service markets.

  • Design and implementation of resilient and trustworthy services coordinating and monitoring use-case dependent sets of stakeholders during operations.

The transition from today’s mostly hierarchical power grids towards tomorrow’s Smart Grids poses several challenges to be properly addressed and harnessed. We argue that proper use of agent technologies is a key technology towards this end. Furthermore, we argue that design and implementation of Smart Grids have to be supported by Configurable Experiment Platforms to carter for the under specifications of such systems. Resilience of systems has several aspects. We focus on resilience related to different kinds of cyber attacks and self-healing.

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  1. ICS KTH Sweden, Sweden

    Rune Gustavsson & Shahid Hussain

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  1. Departamento Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

  2. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Technical Univesity of Madrid, Bloque 2, Despacho 2101, Campus Montegancedo, Boadilla del Monte,, Madrid, Spain

    Javier Bajo

  3. AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH), 30-059, Krakow, Poland

    Jaroslaw Kozlak

  4. Poznan University of Technology, ul.Strzelecka 11, 60-965, Poznań, Poland

    Pawel Pawlewski

  5. Departamento de Informática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenida de la Universidad Carlos III, 22, Colmenarejo, Madrid, Spain

    Jose M. Molina

  6. IRIT, University of Toulouse, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse cedex 9, France

    Benoit Gaudou

  7. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Julian

  8. Universität Duisburg-Essen, Schützenbahn 70 (Hochhaus), 45117, Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

  9. Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (LNEG), Est. Paço do Lumiar 22, 1649-038, Lisbon, Portugal

    Fernando Lopes

  10. Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230, Odense M, Denmark

    Kasper Hallenborg

  11. Dpt. Signal Theory, Telematics and Com-munications, University of Granada, C/ Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda, s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Pedro García Teodoro

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Gustavsson, R., Hussain, S. (2014). The Proper Role of Agents in Future Resilient Smart Grids. In: Corchado, J.M., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 430. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07767-3_21

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