An agent-based approach for building complex software systems
Communications of the ACM
Coordination Models for Dynamic Resource Allocation
COORDINATION '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Coordination Languages and Models
A deployed multi-agent framework for distributed energy applications
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Clustering Distributed Energy Resources for Large-Scale Demand Management
SASO '07 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Managing Household Wind-Energy Generation
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Pattern Learning and Decision Making in a Photovoltaic System
SEAL '08 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning
Adaptive Agent-Based Self-Organization for Robust Hierarchical Topologies
ICAIS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems
Scalable middleware environment for agent-based internet applications
PARA'04 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Applied Parallel Computing: state of the Art in Scientific Computing
Local agent-based self-stabilisation in global resource utilisation
International Journal of Autonomic Computing
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Complex, intelligent, distributed systems in dynamic environments, such as the power grid need to be designed to adapt autonomously. Self-management, in particular of large scale adaptive systems such as the power grid, is necessarily distributed. 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. Assuming that both consumers and providers of energy are autonomous systems, represented by software agents or peers capable of self-management, virtual organizations of systems can emerge and adapt when necessary. Communication structures between systems, e.g., hierarchical or clustered organizations, can emerge, organizations between and within which systems can choose to cooperate and coordinate their actions, or compete. Overlay structures (as defined within p2p research) define such adaptive communication structures, multi-agent research provides interaction patterns. Global goals are achieved by local management on the basis of local goals and knowledge. The appropriate delegation of managerial responsibility determines the control structure. Aggregate information differs depending on the position of a system in an organization, the aggregation mechanisms and policies.