The Impact of the Topology on Cascading Failures in a Power Grid Model

Cascading failures are one of the main reasons for large scale blackouts in power transmission grids. Secure electrical power supply requires, together with careful operation, a robust design of the electrical power grid topology. Currently, the impact of the topology on grid robustness is mainly assessed by purely topological approaches, that...

A Framework for Developing Agent-Based Distributed Applications (extended abstract)

Security in large-scale open distributed multi-agent systems

Towards Emergent Energy Synchronization using Agents

Synchronization of energy consumption is a key determinant for the stabilization of smart energy grids. This paper proposes software agents that locally synchronize the energy usage of appliances to minimize the oscillations in global energy consumption. Agents can manage demand-side devices with periodic operation and synchronize their...

An Agent-Based Infrastructure for Energy Profile Capture and Management

Accurately and dynamically monitoring energy usage patterns in households forms a first requirement for more efficient and ecofriendly energy management in the future. Monitored energy usage data can be used by power systems engineering—to inform demand-side management systems in the near future term—and in architecture/civil engineering—where...

A Distributed Agent-based Approach to Stabilization of Global Resource Utilization (extended abstract)