Fredrik Ygge
HOMEBOTS: Intelligent Decentralized Services for Energy Management
By Hans Akkermans, Fredrik Ygge,
and Rune Gustavsson. In Proceedings of The Fourth International Symposium
on the Management of Industrial and Corporate Knowledge, ISMICK '96, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands, 21-22 October 1996.
The paper is a quite high-level paper written for people with background
in knowledge management.
Abstract
The deregulation of the European energy market, combined with emerging advanced
capabilities of information technology, provides strategic opportunities
for new knowledge-oriented services on the power grid. HOMEBOTS
is the name we have coined for one of these innovative services: decentralized
power load management at the customer side, automatically carried out by
a 'society' of intelligent household, industrial and utility equipment.
They act as independent intelligent agents that communicate and negotiate
in a computational market economy. The knowledge and competence aspects
of this application are discussed, using an improved version of task analysis
according to the CommonKADS knowledge methodology. Illustrated by simulation
results, we indicate how customer knowledge can be mobilized to achieve
joint goals of cost and energy savings.
The entire paper in PDF format.
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