1  Abstract— Demand response, which is the action voluntarily taken by a consumer to adjust amount or timing of its energy consumption, has an important role in improving energy efficiency. With demand response, we can shift electrical load from peak demand time to other periods based on changes in price signal. At residential level, automated Energy Management System (EMS) have been developed...

Various research efforts have focussed on the security and privacy concerns arising from the introduction of smart energy meters. However, in addition to smart metering, the ultimate vision of the smart grid includes bi-directional communication between consumers and suppliers to facilitate certain types of Demand Response (DR) strategies such as demand bidding (DR-DB). In this work we explore ...

KWARESMI (Knowledge-based Web Automated and Reconfigurable Evaluation with guidelineS optiMIzation) tool is aimed for expressing, structuring, and organizing web usability guidelines towards automated evaluation. Traditional tools transform natural statements of usability guidelines into lines of code in a tool that parses the HTML code of a web page and performs guidelines review. These tools ...

Complacency refers to a type of automation use expressed as insufficient monitoring and verification of automated functions. Previous studies have attempted to identify the age-related factors that influence complacency during interaction with automation. However, little is known about the role of age-related differences in working memory capacity and its connection to complacent behaviors. The...