Multi-agent based electricity market simulator with VPP: Conceptual and implementation issues

2009 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PES '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Pinto, T ^a   Vale, Z A ^a   Morais, H ^a   Praca I ^a   Ramos, C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; Electricity markets; Intelligent agents coalitions; Simulation; Virtual power producers

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED GENERATION; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES; ELECTRICITY MARKET; ELECTRICITY MARKET SIMULATORS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS COALITIONS; JAVA PROGRAM; MULTI-AGENT; OTHER APPLICATIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; VIRTUAL POWER PRODUCERS;

COMMERCE; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SIMULATORS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 71849113983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PES.2009.5275565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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