Cooperatives of distributed energy resources for efficient virtual power plants

10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2011, AAMAS 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 737-744

  Chalkiadakis, Georgios ^a   Robu, Valentin ^b   Kota, Ramachandra ^c   Rogers, Alex ^b   Jennings, Nicholas R ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c Secure Meters Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; Energy and emissions; Incentives for cooperation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY RESOURCES; ESTIMATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; POWER PLANTS; TOOLS;

COALITION FORMATIONS; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITY; ENERGY AND EMISSIONS; GAME-THEORETIC PERSPECTIVES; INCENTIVES FOR COOPERATION; SIMULATION; WHOLESALE ENERGY MARKET;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84899449862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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