Energy Systems Analytics

Projects

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As systems based on human-agent collectives grow in scale, complexity and temporal extent, we will increasingly require a principled science that allows us to reason about the computational and human aspects of these systems if we are to avoid developments that are unsafe, unreliable and lack the appropriate safeguards to ensure societal acceptance. Delivering this science is the core research objective of this programme.

 

The International Centre for Infrastructure Futures (ICIF) Project will create a shared, facilitated learning environment in which social scientists, engineers, industrialists, policy makers and other stakeholders can research and learn together to understand how better to exploit the technical and market opportunities that emerge from the increased interdependence of infrastructure systems. The Centre will focus on the development and implementation of innovative business models and aims to support UK firms wishing to exploit them in international markets. The Centre will undertake a wide range of research activities on infrastructure interdependencies with users, which will allow problems to be discovered and addressed earlier and at lower cost. Because infrastructure innovations alter the social distribution of risks and rewards, the public needs to be involved in decision making to ensure business models and forms of regulation are socially robust. As a consequence, the Centre has a major focus on using its research to catalyse a broader national debate about the future of the UK’s infrastructure, and how it might contribute towards a more sustainable, economically vibrant, and fair society.

Publications

2017

Alper Alan Mike Shann, Sven Seuken; Ramchurn, Sarvapali

Save Money or Feel Cozy? A Field Experiment Evaluation of a Smart Thermostat that Learns Heating Preferences Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2017.

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Farinelli, Alessandro; Bicego, Manuele; Bistaffa, Filippo; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.

A Hierarchical Clustering Approach to Large-scale Near-optimal Coalition Formation with Quality Guarantees Journal Article

In: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), vol. 57, pp. 170-185, 2017.

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2015

Sarvapali D. Ramchurn Dengji Zhao, Enrico H. Gerding; Jennings, Nicholas R.

Balanced Trade Reduction for Dual-Role Exchange Markets Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference, 2015.

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Sarvapali D. Ramchurn Emmanouil Rigas, Nick Bassiliades

Managing Electric Vehicles in the Smart Grid Using Artificial Intelligence: A Survey Journal Article

In: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2015.

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Holyhead, James C.; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.; Rogers, Alex

Consumer Targeting in Residential Demand Response Programmes Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Sixth International Conference on Future Energy Systems, pp. 7–16, ACM, Bangalore, India, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-4503-3609-3.

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2014

F. Recchia M. Bicego, A. Farinelli

Behavioural biometrics using electricity load profiles Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2014.

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Alan, Alper; Costanza, Enrico; Fischer, J.; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Rodden, T.; Jennings, N. R.

A field study of human-agent interaction for electricity tariff switching Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2014.

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Costanza, Enrico; Fischer, Joel E; Colley, James A; Rodden, Tom; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Jennings, Nicholas R.

Doing the laundry with agents: a field trial of a future smart energy system in the home Proceedings Article

In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014, pp. 813–822, ACM 2014.

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Jennings, Nicholas R.; Moreau, Luc; Nicholson, D; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.; Roberts, S; Rodden, T; Rogers, Alex

On human-agent collectives Journal Article

In: Communications of the ACM, vol. 57, no. 12, pp. 33-42, 2014.

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2013

Alam, Muddasser; Alan, Alper; Rogers, Alex; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.

Towards a smart home framework Proceedings Article

In: 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys2013), 2013.

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Truong, Ngoc Cuong; Tran-Thanh, Long; Costanza, Enrico; Ramchurn, D. Sarvapali

Activity prediction for agent-based home energy management Proceedings Article

In: Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2013), 2013.

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Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Osborne, Michael; Parson, Oliver; Rahwan, Talal; Maleki, Sasan; Reece, Steve; Huynh, Trung Dong; Alam, Muddasser; Fischer, Joel; Rodden, Tom; Moreau, Luc; Roberts, Sephen

AgentSwitch: towards smart electricity tariff selection Proceedings Article

In: 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2013), International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2013.

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Farinelli, Alessandro; Bicego, Manuele; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Zuchelli, Marco

C-Link: a hierarchical clustering approach to large-scale near-optimal coalition formation Proceedings Article

In: 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press / International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2013.

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Rigas, Emmanouil; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Bassiliades, Nick; Koutitas, Georgios

Congestion management for urban EV charging systems Proceedings Article

In: 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), IEEE, 2013.

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Truong, Ngoc Cuong; McInerney, James; Tran-Thanh, Long; Costanza, Enrico; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.

Forecasting multi-appliance usage for smart home energy management Proceedings Article

In: 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013), 2013.

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Alam, Muddasser; Rogers, Alex; Ramchurn, Sarvapali

Interdependent multi-issue negotiation for energy exchange in remote communities Proceedings Article

In: Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13), 2013.

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Alam, Muddasser; Rogers, Alex; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.

Interdependent multi-issue negotiation for energy exchange in remote communities Proceedings Article

In: International Workshop on AI Problems and Approaches for Intelligent Environments (AI4IE), 2013.

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Fischer, Joel E.; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.; Osborne, Michael A.; Parson, Oliver; Huynh, Trung Dong; Alam, Muddasser; Pantidi, Nadia; Moran, Stuart; Bachour, Khaled; Reece, Steven; Costanza, Enrico; Rodden, Tom; Jennings, Nicholas R.

Recommending Energy Tariffs and Load Shifting Based on Smart Household Usage Profiling Proceedings Article

In: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pp. 383–394, 2013.

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2012

Rogers, Alex; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Jennings, Nicholas R.

Delivering the smart grid: Challenges for autonomous agents and multi-agent systems research Proceedings Article

In: Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), pp. 2166–2172, 2012.

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Richardson, Darren P.; Costanza, Enrico; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.

Evaluating semi-automatic annotation of domestic energy consumption as a memory aid Proceedings Article

In: UbiComp '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pp. 613–614, 2012.

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Miller, Sam; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D; Rogers, Alex

Optimal Decentralised Dispatch of Embedded Generation in the Smart Grid Journal Article

In: In Proc. 11th Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2012.

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Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Vytelingum, Perukrishnen; Rogers, Alex; Jennings, Nicholas R.

Putting the Smarts into the Smart Grid: A Grand Challenge for Artificial Intelligence Journal Article

In: Communications of the ACM, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 86–97, 2012.

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Costanza, Enrico; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.; Jennings, Nicholas R.

Understanding domestic energy consumption through interactive visualisation: a field study Proceedings Article

In: UbiComp '12. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pp. 216–225, 2012.

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Truong, Ngoc Cuong; Tran-Thanh, Long; Costanza, Enrico; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.

Predicting energy consumption activities for home energy management Proceedings Article

In: Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2012), 2012.

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2011

Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Vytelingum, Perukrishnen; Rogers, Alex; Jennings, Nick

Agent-based control for decentralised demand side management in the smart grid Proceedings Article

In: The Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), pp. 5–12, 2011.

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Vytelingum, Perukrishnen; Voice, Thomas; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Rogers, Alex; Jennings, Nick

Theoretical and practical foundations of large-scale agent-based micro-storage in the smart grid Journal Article

In: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 42, pp. 765–813, 2011, (AAMAS 2010 iRobot Best Paper Award).

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Voice, Thomas; Vytelingum, Perukrishnen; Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Rogers, Alex; Jennings, Nick

Decentralised Control of Micro-Storage in the Smart Grid Proceedings Article

In: AAAI-11: Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1421–1426, 2011, (Event Dates: August 7?11, 2011).

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Ramchurn, Sarvapali; Vytelingum, Perukrishnen; Rogers, Alex; Jennings, Nick

Agent-based homeostatic control for green energy in the smart grid Journal Article

In: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 35:1–35:28, 2011.

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2010

Vytelingum, Perukrishnen; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.; Voice, Thomas D.; Rogers, Alex; Jennings, Nicholas R.

Trading agents for the smart electricity grid Proceedings Article

In: The Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), pp. 897–904, 2010, (Event Dates: May 10-14, 2010).

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Vytelingum, Perukrishnen; Voice, Thomas D.; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.; Rogers, Alex; Jennings, Nicholas R.

Agent-Based Micro-Storage Management for the Smart Grid Proceedings Article

In: The Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010) - Won the Best Paper Award, pp. 39–46, 2010, (Winner of the Best Paper Award Event Dates: May 10-14, 2010).

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