TY - GEN
T1 - A Collaborative Approach to Demand Side Energy Management
AU - Adu-Kankam, Kankam O.
AU - Camarinha-Matos, Luis M.
N1 - PTDC/EEI-AUT/32410/2017
UIDB/00066/2020
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Integrating the idea of collaborations into the energy domain appears a promising feat, although, relatively contemporary and uncommon. In this study, we implement a Demand Side Management strategy using the concept of Collaborative Virtual Power Plant Ecosystem as a digital representation of an Energy Community. The community uses a sharing platform to share experience, technical and professional knowledge, facilitating members ambition to change their energy use behaviours. Members of the community are represented as software agents. Behaviours in the adopted model are arranged in a framework of tasks and goals for agents to accomplish. Agents join the ecosystem under deterministic and stochastic conditions. A multi-method modelling approach is used. This study revealed that through collaboration, agents are able to accomplish set tasks faster, thus reducing their chances of frustration and subsequent exit from the ecosystem. This approach helps to influence member´s behaviour and increases membership fluidity, facilitating community stability and sustainability.
AB - Integrating the idea of collaborations into the energy domain appears a promising feat, although, relatively contemporary and uncommon. In this study, we implement a Demand Side Management strategy using the concept of Collaborative Virtual Power Plant Ecosystem as a digital representation of an Energy Community. The community uses a sharing platform to share experience, technical and professional knowledge, facilitating members ambition to change their energy use behaviours. Members of the community are represented as software agents. Behaviours in the adopted model are arranged in a framework of tasks and goals for agents to accomplish. Agents join the ecosystem under deterministic and stochastic conditions. A multi-method modelling approach is used. This study revealed that through collaboration, agents are able to accomplish set tasks faster, thus reducing their chances of frustration and subsequent exit from the ecosystem. This approach helps to influence member´s behaviour and increases membership fluidity, facilitating community stability and sustainability.
KW - Collaborative Networks
KW - Demand Side Management
KW - Goal setting
KW - Incentivization
KW - Virtual power pants
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097396539&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-62412-5_32
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-62412-5_32
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85097396539
SN - 978-3-030-62411-8
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 393
EP - 405
BT - Boosting Collaborative Networks 4.0 - 21st IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2020, Proceedings
A2 - Camarinha-Matos, Luis M.
A2 - Afsarmanesh, Hamideh
A2 - Ortiz, Angel
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
T2 - 21st IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2020
Y2 - 23 November 2020 through 25 November 2020
ER -