The agent-based framework for renewable energy studies (ARES) is an integrated approach that adds an agent-based model of industry actors to PLEXOS and combines the strengths of the two to overcome their individual shortcomings. It can examine existing and novel wholesale electricity markets under high penetrations of renewables. ARES is demonstrated by studying how increasing levels of wind wi...

In this note we present a top level overview of resource management in an an agent-based virtual organization. To illustrate its main features we discuss processes involved in a project being introduced into the

The costs of credit and accountability are good incentives for the Central Bank to increase independence. Independence of power and attention to economic policymaking in monetary decision-making can have a positive effect on the level of economic organization independence. The independent organization of the Central Bank has provided a plan for controlling inflation due to the importance of ind...

Recently we observe a surge in new technologies that are expected to change the way we process information and support workers in an organization. Two of them that are very often mentioned as “disruptive technologies” are: ontologies and software agents. In our recent project we attempt at conceptualizing the way in which these two technologies can be combined and utilized in information manage...

Knowledge has become the main value driver for organizations nowadays. In particular, knowledge-based organizations (KBOs) allocate resources for intangible assets (e.g., R&D) in the rapidly changing and highly competitive environment in order to gain competitive advantages. Therefore, how to evaluate knowledge-based organizations has become one of the most important issues in knowledge managem...