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Specific features of trade on electrical energy markets make the automation of certain negotiation and contracting processes attractive and desirable. Multi-agent systems are a natural solution for automating processes in a distributed environment, where individual market entities posses their own objectives. In the paper we consider a concept of a multi-agent framework for an electronic market trade. Since both energy markets and trade mechanisms are complex and permanently evolving, we require the highest expressiveness from this concept. Development of such a system involves solving several design issues related to embedding the agents in the environment, agent communications schemas, language, and offers modeling, especially in the case of the distributed, multilateral trade. We present a solution for the most important design issues. Our concept, including new information technologies supplementing multi-agent systems and Web services, are capable to support enterprises in the decision processes, to facilitate the buy/sell offers preparation, to select parties and enter into business relations with entities, and to support contract negotiations.
Partially supported by MNiSW grant no N N516 375736.
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Kaleta, M., Pałka, P., Toczyłowski, E., Traczyk, T. (2009). Electronic Trading on Electricity Markets within a Multi-agent Framework. In: Nguyen, N.T., Kowalczyk, R., Chen, SM. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems. ICCCI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5796. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04441-0_69
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