Enabling electricity markets is one of main characteristics of a smart grid that integrates advanced sensing technologies, control methodologies, and communication technologies into current power distribution systems. Intelligent Multi-Agent System (MAS) that provides platform for modeling autonomous decision making entities in de-centralized fashion can be used to implement market based power ...

The term "smart grid" generally refers to a next-generation power grid in which the generation, transmission, distribution, and management of electricity are upgraded and automated by incorporating advanced computing and communication technologies for improving the efficiency, reliability, economics, and safety of the grid. Loosely speaking, a smart grid is composed of a power grid and a two-wa...

Smart grid, smart metering, electromobility, and the regulation of the power network are keywords of the transition in energy politics. In the future, the power grid will be smart. Based on different works, this article presents a data collection, analyzing, and monitoring software for a reference smart grid. We discuss two possible architectures for collecting data from energy analyzers and an...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can help the realization of low-cost power grid automation systems where multi-functional sensor nodes can be used to monitor the critical parameters of smart grid components. The WSN-based smart grid applications include but not limited to load control, power system monitoring and control, fault diagnostics, power fraud detection, demand response, and distributi...

Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm and it is gaining wide popularity due to its benefits including reduced cost, ease of management, and increased reliability. In a cloud computing environment, companies or individuals offload their computing (hardware/software/data) to the cloud, which is supported by the computing infrastructure called datacenters. Datacenters consume large amounts o...

existed electricity grids deliver produced power to the consumer passing through transmission and distribution grids. According to high losses of these grids in transmission level and inexistence of bilateral interaction for simultaneous information exchange, a concept of smart grids were made by capabilities such as consciously participation of consumers in the smart electricity grids, an amou...

Smart grid is a combination of power, communication and information infrastructures which support the evolution of conventional electrical power systems toward active, flexible and automatic troubleshooter energy networks. This study presents a novel architectural model based on holonic multi-agent system to establish powerful connection model for software entities in IT infrastructure of smart...

NIST has considered the performance of AES candidates on smart-cards as an important selection criterion and many submitters have highlighted the compactness and e ciency of their submission on low end smart cards. However, in light of recently discovered power based attacks, we strongly argue that evaluating smart-card suitability of AES candidates requires a very cautious approach. We demonst...