Putting the 'smarts' into the smart grid: A grand challenge for artificial intelligence

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 86-97

  Ramchurn, Sarvapali D ^a   Vytelingum, Perukrishnen ^a   Rogers, Alex ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED COORDINATION; DESIGN SIMULATIONS; ELECTRICITY GRIDS; EMERGENT PROPERTY; GRAND CHALLENGE; SMART GRID; SUPPLY AND DEMAND; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

ECONOMICS; SMART POWER GRIDS;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84861117530     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2133806.2133825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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