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Electricity markets are complex environments with very particular characteristics. A critical issue concerns the constant changes they are subject to. This is a result of the electricity markets’ restructuring, performed so that the competitiveness could be increased, but with exponential implications in the increase of the complexity and unpredictability in those markets’ scope. The constant growth in markets unpredictability resulted in an amplified need for market intervenient entities in foreseeing market behavior. The need for understanding the market mechanisms and how the involved players’ interaction affects the outcomes of the markets, contributed to the growth of usage of simulation tools. Multi-agent based software is particularly well fitted to analyze dynamic and adaptive systems with complex interactions among its constituents, such as electricity markets. This paper presents the Multi-Agent System for Competitive Electricity Markets (MASCEM) – a simulator based on multi-agent technology that provides a realistic platform to simulate electricity markets, the numerous negotiation opportunities and the participating entities.
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Pinto, T., Praça, I., Santos, G., Vale, Z. (2013). Demonstration of the Multi-Agent Simulator of Competitive Electricity Markets. In: Demazeau, Y., Ishida, T., Corchado, J.M., Bajo, J. (eds) Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7879. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38073-0_36
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