Abstract: In this paper, the problem of minimizing electricity cost and the peak system load in smart grids with distributed renewable energy resources is studied. Unlike prior research works that either assume all of the jobs are interruptible or power-shiftable, this paper focuses on more challenging scenarios in which jobs are non-interruptible and non-power-shiftable. In addition, as more a...

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...

—The rising share of energy generation of renewable energies leads to a more volatile energy generation. Large conventional generation capacities have to be kept in the system in order to smooth out the generation patterns of distributed generators. The controllability of electricity generation is on decrease. To improve adaptability of power systems due to these new challenges, the concept of ...