Towards Agent-Based Model Specification in Smart Grid: A Cognitive Agent-based Computing Approach

Smart grid can be considered as a complex network where each node represents generation unit, producer, and links represent transmission lines. Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a paradigm represents a complex system of autonomous agents and their interactions with each other. Previously, numbers of study have been presented in smart grid domain using ABM methodologies. However, these study lack in following any ABM specification approach. The purely text based specification tends to be ambiguous and make the model difficult to be replicated. In this paper, we present an ABM for smart grid using a combination of agent-based and complex network based approaches. Then we present ODD and DREAM specification approach for our ABM in the smart grid. We compare these two specification techniques qualitatively as well as quantitatively and conclude that DREAM approach is better than ODD in term of understanding and replicating ABM.