MAS-Society team presented project results during GECAD Energy Projects Event 2022
Between April 26th and 27th, MAS-Society team presented the results of the project during a workshop organized at ISEP, in Porto. After four years of the project, the presentations and interaction/discussions with the many participants, from different nationalities, that attended the event were very rich, arousing the interest of several participants.
The session MAS-Society project presentation, from 10:00 to 10:15 on April 26th, 2022. (http://www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt/public/Agenda_GECAD_event_2022.pdf); The session MAS-Society Parallel demonstration sessions, from 17:40 to 18:10 on April 27th, 2020. (http://www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt/TrainingCourse/Program.pdf)
MAS-Society published a paper on Energy Reports
MAS-Society team had a paper, titled “Demand Response and Dispatchable Generation as Ancillary Services to Support The Low Voltage Distribution Network Operation” accepted and will be published in Energy Reports, an open access journal, on June 2022. The paper is already available online.
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MAS-Society published a paper on Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
MAS-Society team had a paper, titled “Cellular Estimation of Distribution Algorithm Designed to Solve the Energy Resource Management Problem Under Uncertainty” accepted and published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, on May 2021.
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MAS-Society presented project results during PAAMS 2021
The 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS) is an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer, and had its 19th edition between October 6th and 8th in Salamanca, Spain.
During the conference, MAS-Society team members presented results during two talks, one titled “Semantic Services Catalog for Multiagent Systems Society” and the second one titled “Semantic Interoperability for Multiagent Simulation and Decision Support in Power Systems”
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MAS-Society published a paper on Energy Informatics
MAS-Society team had a paper, titled “Climatization and luminosity optimization of buildings using genetic algorithm, random forest, and regression models” accepted and published in Energy Informatics, an open access journal, on 24th September 2021.
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MAS-Society team published research results on Energy Strategy Reviews
MAS-Society team had a paper, titled “Smart energy community: A systematic review with metanalysis” accepted and published in Energy Strategy Reviews s, an open access journal, in July 2021.
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MAS-Society published a paper on Forecasting
MAS-Society team had a paper, titled “Load Forecasting in an Office Building with Different Data Structure and Learning Parameters” accepted and published in Forecasting, an open access journal, on 20th March 2021.
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MAS-Society team published a paper on Energies
MAS-Society team had a paper, titled “MARTINE—A Platform for Real-Time Energy Management in Smart Grids” accepted and published in Energies, an open access journal, on 25th March 2021.
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MAS-Society published a paper on Energy Strategy Reviews Journal
Energy Strategy Reviews is an open access international journal focusing on strategic decision-making and vision-sharing related to society’s energy needs with a 7.9 Cite Score and a 6.425 Impact Factor.
MAS-Society team had its paper accepted and it will be available in the Volume 36 from July 2021.
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Paper presented by MAS-Society team members received a prize during EEM20
The paper “Learning Bidding Strategies in Local Electricity Markets using a Nature-Inspired Algorithm”, written by MAS-Society team member Fernando Lezama, Joao Soares, Ricardo Faia, Pedro Faria and Zita Vale was presented during the 17th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM20) and received the Best paper award: 3rd prize from the EEM20 organization committee.
MAS-Society paper presentation received a prize during ICEER2020
During the 7th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research (ICEER2020) the paper titled “Using Diverse Sensors to Support the Load Forecasting in an Office Building to Support Energy Management”, written by Daniel Ramos, Brígida Teixeira, Pedro Faria, Luis Gomes, Omid Abrishambaf and Zita Vale, received a Prize for the best oral presentation in the topic of “Sustainable Buildings”.
MAS-Society team presented project results during ICEER 2020
The International Conference on Energy and Environment Research (ICEER) is a privileged space to discuss current issues related to Energy and Environment and had its 7th edition between September 14th and 17th in a virtual conference room due to the SARS-CoV-2.
During the conference, professor Zita Vale presented MAS-Society results during a talk titled “Using Diverse Sensors in Load Forecasting in an Office Building to Support Energy Management”.
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Recorded sessions and presentations of the Online Training Course on Machine Learning, Agent-based Systems, and Optimization in Power and Energy
MAS-Society team presented characteristics of the project, developments and some research results during Parte I – Sessions 2-5 of the “Online Training Course on Machine Learning, Agent-based Systems and Optimization in Power and Energy”. The content of the course can be downloaded in the links bellow.
Part I Session 1: Machine learning methods: a general overview (Carlos Ramos) – ppt & video
Part I Session 2: Multi-Agent Simulation and Emulation in Power and Energy (Zita Vale) – ppt & video
Part I Session 3: Machine learning methodologies and strategic behaviour in electricity market negotiations (Tiago Pinto) – ppt & video
Part I Session 4: Multi-agent based real-time infrastructure for energy: modelling and simulation of a farm microgrid (Pedro Faria) – ppt & video
Part I Session 5: Open discussion and closing remarks (Carlos Ramos, Zita Vale, Tiago Pinto, and Pedro Faria) – video
Part II Session 1: Metaheuristics methods and basics of evolutionary techniques for optimization algorithm (João Soares) – ppt & video
Part II Session 2: Handling specific heuristics and adaptations of complex optimization program in the context of smart grids (Fernando Lezama) – ppt & video
Part II Session 3: Practical experimentation and case studies in smart grids optimizations (Pedro Faria) – ppt & video
Part II Session 4: Open discussion and closing remarks (João Soares, Fernando Lezama, and Pedro Faria) – video
All recorded sessions: videos
Free Online Training Course on Machine Learning, Agent-based Systems, and Optimization in Power and Energy
14h00 – 19h15 (WEST) Friday 03-Jul-2020
This online training course is divided in two parts: Machine Learning and Agent-based Systems in Power and Energy, and Evolutionary Optimization Methods and Applications in Power and Energy. The first part will be presented by Professor Zita Vale (Full Professor at ISEP/P.Porto), Professor Carlos Ramos (Full Professor at ISEP/P.Porto), Dr. Tiago Pinto (Invited Professor at ISEP/P.Porto), and Dr. Pedro Faria (Invited Professor at ISEP/P.Porto) considering their work developed under MAS-Society project. The second part will be presented by Dr. João Soares, Dr. Pedro Faria (Invited Professor at ISEP/P.Porto), and Dr. Fernando Lezama, considering their work developed under CENERGETIC, and COLORS projects. This training course is online and free of charge. The participants who attend will receive certification.
Program: here.
Free but mandatory registration: here.
Results from MAS-Society project were presented during OPAL-RT Technologies
MAS-Society team had a presentation, titled “Multi-Agent Based Real-Time Infrastructure for Energy: Modeling and Simulation of a Farm Microgrid”. The presentation took place during the OPAL-RT Technologies, RT20 Virtual Edition, on June 19th.
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MAS-Society published a paper on IEEE ACCESS
MAS-Society team had a paper, titled “Application Ontology for Multi-Agent and Web-Services’ Co-Simulation in Power and Energy Systems” accepted and published in IEEE ACCESS, an open access journal, on April 2020. The paper is already available online.
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Results from MAS-Society project were presented during ISAP 2019.
ISAP – Intelligent System Applications to Power System organized the 20th ISAP Conference in New Delhi, India, between December 10th and December14th .
During the conference, Zita Vale presented MAS-Society results during a talk titled “Multi-agent semantic interoperability in complex energy systems simulation and decision support” on December 12th.
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MAS-Society published a paper on Sustainable Cities and Society Journal
Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal focusing on fundamental and applied research aimed at designing, understanding, and promoting environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities with a 5.22 Cite Score and a 4.624 Impact Factor.
MAS-Society team had its paper accepted and it is in press and available online since September 11th.
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MAS-Society presented project results during EPIA 2019
The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established European conference in the field of AI and had its 19th edition, EPIA 2019, in Vila Real between September 3rd and 6th.
Fernando Lezama presented MAS-Society results during a talk titled “Distributed Constrained Optimization Towards Effective Agent-Based Microgrid Energy Resource Management” on September 6th.
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MAS-Society presented project results during 17th PAAMS in Ávila, Spain
PAAMS is an International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems and provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer.
During its 17th International Conference held on Ávila, Spain, between June 26th and 28th GECAD team presented some results from MAS-Society project.
During the Conference, Tiago Pinto presented MAS-Society results during a talk titled “Collaborative Reinforcement Learning of Energy Contracts Negotiation Strategies”.
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MAS-Society participated in PowerTech 2019 in Milano, Italy
PowerTech is the anchor conference of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) in Europe and provides a forum for researchers and engineers involved in electric power and energy engineering to share ideas and results. 13th IEEE PowerTech 2019 was fold in Milano, Italy, between June 23th and 27th.
Zita Vale presented some results from MAS-Society project during a talk titled “Day-ahead electricity market price forecasting using artificial neural network with spearman data correlation” on June 25th.
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MAS-Society participated in AAMAS 2019 in Montréal, Canada
The International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems. The 2019 AAMAS conference was hold in Montréal, Canada, between May 13th and 17th.
Tiago Pinto presented MAS-Society results throughout three demonstration moments, on May 16th. The first on was a talk titled “Decision Support System for Opponents Selection in Electricity Markets Bilateral Negotiations”, followed by another titled “ALBidS: a decision support system for strategic bidding in electricity markets” on May 16 and, to conclude, he conducted a talk named “Practical application of a multi-agent systems society for energy management and control”.
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Workshop organization, MASGES 2019
MAS-Society will organize a
Workshop on Multi-agent based Applications for Energy Markets, Smart Grids and
Sustainable Energy Systems (MASGES) in 17th International Conference on
Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAMSS 2019). The
event will be held on 26th-28th June, 2019, in Ávila, Spain.
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Conference track organization, AIPES 2019
MAS-Society will organize a
track on Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems (AIPES) in The
EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2019. The event will be held on
3rd-6th, September 2019, in Vila Real, Portugal.
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Kick-off, June 15 2018
MAS-Society team met on the 15th June 2018 for the kick-off of the project. The team has discussed the planning and operational organization aspects of the project, with special detail for the first three execution months. The team is very motivated for the MAS-Society research activities and very confident of the success of this new project.