Coordination of the charging of electric vehicles using a multi-agent system

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1802-1809

  Papadopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Jenkins, Nick ^a   Cipcigan, Liana M ^a   Grau, Inaki ^a   Zabala, Eduardo ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distribution networks; Electric vehicles; Multiagent systems; Real time systems; Smart grids

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED CONTROL; ELECTRICITY PRICES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; SEARCH TECHNIQUE; SMART GRID; TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS;

CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

LOADING;

EID: 84890425118     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2013.2274391     Document Type: Article

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