An evolutionary game approach to analyzing bidding strategies in electricity markets with elastic demand

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3459-3467

  Wang, Jianhui ^a   Zhou, Zhi ^a   Botterud, Audun ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Bidding strategies; Coevolutionary algorithm; Evolutionary game; Game theory; Strategy selection

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AGENT BASED; BIDDING STRATEGY; COEVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; EVOLUTIONARY GAME; STRATEGY SELECTION;

GAME THEORY;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ALGORITHM; COEVOLUTION; DEMAND ELASTICITY; GAME THEORY; LEARNING; PROBABILITY;

EID: 79955658118     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.03.050     Document Type: Article

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