The basic aim of the present paper is to present a practical solution of an intelligent Business Class system of aiding decisionmaking in activity management processes of small energy sources functioning on the electricity market. The solution has been worked out by the authors of the paper. A hybrid approach combining SHELL applications and neural networks has been applied. This hybrid, togeth...

The widening spectrum of conflict and the need for military forces to participate in peace, humanitarian, and other types of operation have created the need for new types of decisionsupport facilities. This new reality has provided significant challenges to the technical support community. To meet these challenges, Sweden has produced the Aquarium facility at the National Defence College in Sto...

We consider a calculus of resources and processes as a basis for modelling decision-making in multi-agent systems. The calculus represents the regulation of agents’ choices using utility functions that take account of context. Associated with the calculus is a (Hennessy–Milner-style) contextsensitive modal logic of state. As an application, we show how a notion of ‘trust domain’ can be defined ...

Distributed systems without centralized elements need a distributed mechanism that allows accomplishing the control and synchronization tasks. This problem is especially relevant in nanoand biosystems that do not possess complex computational devices. However the collective coordination and decision making may be performed using the available in these systems natural dynamical processes based o...

A Colored Petri Net implementation of the mathematical model of a decision making organization that forms the basis of an experiment currently being carried out is presented. The model is used to investigate coordination mechanisms by decoupling the information flow paths and the coordination mechanisms into two interacting layers in which the coordination layer coordinates the behavior of the ...

As large-scale theft of data from corporate servers is becoming increasingly common, it becomes interesting to examine alternatives to the paradigm of centralizing sensitive data into large databases. Instead, one could use cryptography and distributed computation so that sensitive data can be supplied and processed in encrypted form, and only the final result is made known. In this paper, we e...

This paper explores the structure, use, and value of Distributed Grid Management as a process and technology to support distributed grid optimization functions and microgrids to better integrate into the electrical grid small quantities of local, distributed power generated from renewable resources. The paper describes the value of distributed distribution management as it applies to Microgrids...