Abstract This paper focuses on the home energy management for a residential prosumager with flexible loads. In particular, three different types of controllable appliances (shiftable, interruptible, thermostatically controllable) have been considered, each one specific representation consumption profile and potential discomfort rate user. The inherent uncertainty affecting main model parameters...

This paper describes our approach to enable Gandalf VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor) to be interruptible. Although Gandalf is shown to be a lightweight VMM, the detailed performance analysis using PMC (Performance Monitoring Counters) showed Gandalf executes with interrupts disabled for a rather long duration of time. By making Gandalf interruptible, we are able to make VMM based systems more suit...

Interruptible pure exploration in multi-armed bandits (MABs) is a key component of Monte-Carlo tree search algorithms for sequential decision problems. We introduce Discriminative Bucketing (DB), a novel family of strategies for pure exploration in MABs, which allows for adapting recent advances in non-interruptible strategies to the interruptible setting, while guaranteeing exponential-rate pe...

We present a new approach to synchronization on uniprocessors with special applicability to embedded and real-time systems. Existing methods for synchronization in real-time systems are pessimistic, and use blocking to enforce concurrency control. While protocols to bound the blocking of high priority tasks exist, high priority tasks can still be blocked by low priority tasks. In addition, thes...

Abstract China’s industrial parks are the concentration areas of enterprises. The aggregate regulation and control various types adjustable loads in effective means to achieve consumption renewable energy. However, there many loads, along with varying amounts response characteristics, which makes it difficult unified regulation. In view characteristics multiple parks, models short-term interrup...

The planning and operational issues of distribution systems have attracted more and more attentions from researchers with the development of Smart Grids. A new integrated planning model of distribution systems and the solution methods are proposed in this paper to investigate the way of improving the economy and reliability of distribution system planning by making full use of distributed gener...

We consider interruptible electricity contracts issued by an electricity retailer that allow for interruptions to electric service in exchange for either an overall reduction in the price of electricity delivered or for financial compensation at the time of interruption. We provide an equilibrium model to determine electricity prices based on stochastic models of supply and demand. In the conte...

INTRODUCTION................................................................................... 249 I. BACKGROUND ................................................................................. 251 A. History of Regulation of the Electromagnetic Spectrum.... 251 B. Secondary Markets and Interruptible Leasing ..................... 254 II. DEFINITION................................................