Multi-agent Negotiation of Decentralized Energy Production in Smart Micro-grid

Abstract

Abstract.SmartGrid is an electricity network that can intelligently integrate the actions of all users connected to it in order to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic and secure electricity supplies. In this context the CoSSMic project aims at fostering a higher rate of self-consumption of decentralized renewable energy production, using innovative autonomic systems for management and control of power micro-grids on users behalf. To achieve this goal we have designed an ICT framework that integrates different appliances such as smart meters, solar panels, batteries, etc., providing a common platform to support sharing of information and negotiation of energy exchanges between power producers and storages in accordance with policies defined by owners, weather forecasts, and habits and plans of participants.

Distributed architecture for agents‐based energy negotiation in solar powered micro‐grids

“…It provides an analytical characterization of protocol and specifies how an agent should choose optimal values for the protocol parameters. Preliminary results of the CoSSMic project have been also presented in [16,17]. CoSSMic will also support this claim but designing a collaborative strategy among agents.…”

“…In [9], authors claim that agent and peer-to-peer-based decentralized self-management can change the future of energy markets in which the power grid plays a core role. This work is an extended version of [17] that provided a short overview of the CoSSMic objectives and the proposed approach. In [10], authors propose an agent-based simulator of competitive electricity markets, designed for analyzing agent market strategies.…”

“…Experience in building network of agents have been gained by us both in smart cities applications [14] and for negotiation and brokering of computational resources in Cloud markets [15]. Preliminary results of the CoSSMic project have been also presented in [16,17]. This work is an extended version of [17] that provided a short overview of the CoSSMic objectives and the proposed approach.…”

“…Preliminary results of the CoSSMic project have been also presented in [16,17]. This work is an extended version of [17] that provided a short overview of the CoSSMic objectives and the proposed approach. In this paper, we present the results of the project related to the complete design of the multi-agent system that will run learning and optimization algorithms.…”

Trust-based Negotiation in Multiagent Systems: A Systematic Review

“…Multiagent Systems (MAS) aim to provide both principles for construction of complex systems involving multiple agents and mechanisms for coordination of independent agent behaviour [25]. MAS, which consists of multiple autonomous agents with distinct goals, that communicate with each other and with the environment with a focus on understanding the latter and reason upon intelligent models, coordinating their efforts to achieve their goals and the one of the ecosystem where they are inserted in, and negotiating their preferences [2,17]. To achieve that, each agent must be equipped with trust mechanisms, that can be based on mathematical principles or extracted from cognitive characteristics that mimic their human counterpart.…”