ADAPT has proposed a multi-agent decision support system to assist the negotiation process of smart grid and electricity market players. This decision support system integrates two main components, which refer to the planning phase (helping players deciding in which market opportunities to participate and the volumes of energy to negotiate) and to the actual negotiation phase (supporting players’ negotiation process itself, when participating in the market). The planning component consists in a portfolio optimization model that identifies the most gainful negotiation opportunities, considering the available markets, including negotiations at a smart grid level. The decision support for actual negotiations applies novel machine learning approaches to choose the most suitable negotiation strategies for each context. The contexts refers to the factors that influence the negotiation conditions, such as the expected volume of renewable generation at each time, the expected market prices, the players that are expected to be involved in the particular market negotiations, etc. The opponent players negotiation profiles are also considered as means for the system to adapt its suggested actions according to the expected behaviour of the opponents.
The ADAPT system will be used by players involved in electricity transactions, including consumers, generators and aggregators. These players are able to improve their electricity market participation by being endowed with solutions that help them in the planning and negotiation processes. The ADAPT system can be used by both the traditional players usually involved on wholesale electricity market negotiations, and also by the small consumers and generators that are just starting or about to start a more active participation in electricity markets, especially through local trading.
The project results are have been widely disseminated through the traditional channels, such as the project website and social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube), but also through the participation in multiple international events. It is worth highlighting the organization of 13 workshops and seminars in international venues; the delivery of 8 invited talks on the project topics; the edition of 2 special issues in scientific journals and one book; and the publication of 12 SCI indexed journal papers and 20 publications in international conferences and congresses in the fields of artificial intelligence and power and energy systems.
