In this paper, we propose a novel automated double auction mechanism called convergent linear function submission-based double-auction (CLFS-DA) for a prosumers’ decentralized smart grid. The target decentralized smart grid is a regional electricity network that consists of many prosumers that have a battery and a renewable energy-based generator, such as photovoltaic cells. In the proposed dou...

E-business applications need robust and powerful mechanisms to authorize security-critical actions. This actions can be very complex, since they can be initiated not only by human users but also by applications or software agents. Existing authorization mechanisms do not scale for large number of users if the trust relations are dynamic and fail to provide reliable authorization among strangers...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems achieve scalability, fault tolerance, and load balancing with a low-cost infrastructure, characteristics from which collaboration systems, such as Wikipedia, can benefit. A major challenge in P2P collaboration systems is to maintain article quality after each modification in the presence of malicious peers. A way of achieving this goal is to allow modifications to tak...

Urban Dynamics modeling needs to implement spatial organization emergence in order to describe the development of services evolution and their usage within spatial centers. In this paper, we propose an extension of the nest building algorithm with multi-center, multi-criteria and adaptive processes. We combine a decentralized approach based on emergent clustering mixed with spatial constraints ...

The research presented in this extended abstract paper depicts a smart grid management framework which enables a decentralized and autonomous organization of the energy participants within these grids. Based on basic requirements for operating such systems, challenges and tasks are being discussed here as a basis for future research. The discussion encompasses both fields of electrical engineer...

In 1997, the Kaiser Foundation Health Care and Hospitals, the Permanente Medical Federation, and a coalition of unions signed a national agreement creating one of the most ambitious labor management partnerships in U.S. history, initially covering some 58,000 employees. Based on field research and archival data, this paper analyzes the first eight years of this partnership in light of three str...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) that use tiny wireless devices capable of communicating, processing, and sensing promise to have applications in virtually all fields. Smart homes and smart cities are just few of the examples that WSNs can enable. Despite their potential, WSNs suffer from reliability and energy limitations. In this study, we address the problem of designing Distributed Data Stor...

number: 025-0227 Abstract title: Optimal decisions for a decentralized assembly system with dual supply modes Authors’ information: Name: Shihua Ma*, Danfeng Ying, and Xu Guan Organization: School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Address: No.1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China E-mail: [email protected] (Shihua Ma, Corresponding author) yingdanfeng@gmail...