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Low-Frequency Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring of Electric Vehicles in Houses with Solar Generation: Generalisability and Transferability

Author(s): Apostolos Vavouris, Benjamin Garside, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic
Published in: Energies, Issue 2022, 15(6), 2022, Page(s) 1-27, ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/en15062200

Performance-aware NILM model optimization for edge deployment

Author(s): Stavros Sykiotis, Sotirios Athanasoulias, Maria Kaselimi, Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos Doulamis, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2023, ISSN 2473-2400
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/tgcn.2023.3244278

A weakly supervised active learning framework for non-intrusive load monitoring

Author(s): Giulia Tanoni, Tamara Sobot, Emanuele Principi, Vladimir Stankovic, Lina Stankovic, Stefano Squartini
Published in: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 2024, ISSN 1069-2509
Publisher: IOS Press

The Plegma dataset: Domestic appliance-level and aggregate electricity demand with metadata from Greece

Author(s): Sotirios Athanasoulias, Fernanda Guasselli, Nikolaos Doulamis, Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos Ipiotis, Athina Katsari, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03208-0

Particle Swarm Optimization in Residential Demand-Side Management: A Review on Scheduling and Control Algorithms for Demand Response Provision

Author(s): Christoforos Menos-Aikateriniadis, Ilias Lamprinos, and Pavlos S. Georgilakis
Published in: Energies, 2022, ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/en15062211

ForecastExplainer: Explainable household energy demand forecasting by approximating shapley values using DeepLIFT

Author(s): Md Shajalal, Alexander Boden, Gunnar Stevens
Published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Issue 206, 2024, Page(s) 123588, ISSN 0040-1625
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123588

A self-sustained EV charging framework with N-step deep reinforcement learning

Author(s): Stavros Sykiotis Christoforos Menos-Aikateriniadis Anastasios Doulamis Nikolaos Doulamis Pavlos S. Georgilakis
Published in: Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, 2023, ISSN 2352-4677
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.segan.2023.101124

Descriptor: A Norwegian Positive Energy Neighborhood Dataset of Electrical Measurements and Interviews on Energy Practices (NorPEN)

Author(s): Apostolos Vavouris, Fernanda Guasselli, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Sébastien Didierjean
Published in: IEEE Data Descriptions, Issue 1, 2024, Page(s) 113-121, ISSN 2995-4274
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ieeedata.2024.3483154

ELECTRIcity: An Efficient Transformer for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

Author(s): Stavros Sykiotis, Maria Kaselimi, Anastasios Doulamis and Nikolaos Doulamis
Published in: "Sensors, Special Issue ""Practical Nonintrusive Load Monitoring Approaches with Meaningful Performance Evaluation""", 2022, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s22082926

OPT-NILM: An Iterative Prior-to-Full-Training Pruning Approach for Cost-Effective User Side Energy Disaggregation

Author(s): Sotirios Athanasoulias, Stavros Sykiotis, Maria Kaselimi, Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos Doulamis, Nikolaos Ipiotis
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Issue 70, 2024, Page(s) 4435-4446, ISSN 0098-3063
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tce.2023.3324493

Are you thinking what I’m thinking? The role of professionals’ imaginaries in the development of smart home technologies

Author(s): Vinícius Juliani Pereira, Tom Hargreaves
Published in: Futures, Issue 163, 2024, Page(s) 103458, ISSN 0016-3287
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2024.103458

An active learning framework for the low-frequency Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring problem

Author(s): Tamara Todic, Vladimir Stankovic, Lina Stankovic
Published in: Applied Energy, Issue 341, 2023, ISSN 0306-2619
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121078

Towards transparent load disaggregation – a framework for quantitative evaluation of explainability using explainable AI

Author(s): Djordje Batic, Vladimir Stankovic, Lina Stankovic
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Issue August 1, 2023, ISSN 0098-3063
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tce.2023.3300530

Improved Thermal Comfort Model Leveraging Conditional Tabular GAN Focusing on Feature Selection

Author(s): Md. Shajalal, Milad Bohlouli, Hari Prasanna Das, Alexander Boden, Gunnar Stevens
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 30039-30053, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2024.3366453

A weakly supervised active learning framework for non-intrusive load monitoring

Author(s): Giulia Tanoni, Tamara Sobot, Emanuele Principi, Vladimir Stankovic, Lina Stankovic, Stefano Squartini
Published in: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, Issue 32, 2025, Page(s) 39-56, ISSN 1069-2509
Publisher: IOS Press
DOI: 10.3233/ica-240738

Citizen perceptions and interactions towards self-sufficiency, community plot ratio and civic generosity within sustainable neighbourhoods

Author(s): Joseph Llewellyn, Cecilia Katzeff, Daniel Pargman, Fredrik Johansson
Published in: City and Environment Interactions, Issue 24, 2024, Page(s) 100180, ISSN 2590-2520
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100180

“If something breaks, who comes here to fix it?”: Island narratives on the energy transition in light of the concept of practice architectures

Author(s): Chiara Tellarini, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: Energy Research & Social Science, Issue 114, 2024, Page(s) 103617, ISSN 2214-6296
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103617

XNILMBoost: Explainability-informed load disaggregation training enhancement using attribution priors

Author(s): Djordje Batic, Vladimir Stankovic, Lina Stankovic
Published in: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Issue 141, 2025, Page(s) 109766, ISSN 0952-1976
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2024.109766

Unlocking the potential of smart EV charging: A user-oriented control system based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Christoforos Menos-Aikateriniadis, Stavros Sykiotis, Pavlos S. Georgilakis
Published in: Electric Power Systems Research, Issue 230, 2024, Page(s) 110255, ISSN 0378-7796
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2024.110255

Assessing the impact of energy coaching with smart technology interventions to alleviate energy poverty

Author(s): Joseph Llewellyn, Titus Venverloo, Fabio Duarte, Carlo Ratti, Cecilia Katzeff, Fredrik Johansson, Daniel Pargman
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-80773-9

Interpretability and reliability-driven knowledge distillation for non-intrusive load monitoring on the edge

Author(s): Djordje Batic, Giulia Tanoni, Emanuele Principi, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic, Stefano Squartini
Published in: Expert Systems with Applications, Issue 294, 2025, Page(s) 128837, ISSN 0957-4174
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2025.128837

A non-intrusive load monitoring-enabled framework for load scheduling in the dairy industry

Author(s): Apostolos Vavouris, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic
Published in: Applied Energy, Issue 398, 2025, Page(s) 126456, ISSN 0306-2619
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.126456

Smart energy technologies for the collective: Time-shifting, demand reduction and household practices in a Positive Energy Neighbourhood in Norway

Author(s): Fernanda Guasselli, Apostolos Vavouris, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic, Sebastien Didierjean, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: Energy Research & Social Science, 2024, ISSN 2214-6296
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103436

A complex mixed-methods data-driven energy-centric evaluation of net-positive households

Author(s): Apostolos Vavouris, Fernanda Guasselli, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Sébastien Didierjean
Published in: Applied Energy, Issue vol. 367, 2024, ISSN 0306-2619
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.123404

Geodemographic aware electric vehicle charging location planning for equitable placement using Graph Neural Networks: Case study of Scotland metropolitan areas

Author(s): Djordje Batic, Vladimir Stankovic, Lina Stankovic
Published in: Energy, Issue 332, 2025, Page(s) 135834, ISSN 0360-5442
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2025.135834

Explainable product backorder prediction exploiting CNN: Introducing explainable models in businesses

Author(s): Md Shajalal, Alexander Boden, Gunnar Stevens
Published in: Electronic Markets, Issue 2022, 2022, ISSN 1422-8890
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s12525-022-00599-z

Human in the loop active learning for time-series electrical measurement data

Author(s): Tamara Sobot, Vladimir Stankovic, Lina Stankovic
Published in: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Issue vol. 133, 2024, ISSN 0952-1976
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2024.108589

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10095696

Author(s): Stavros Sykiotis Maria Kaselimi Anastasios Doulamis Nikolaos Doulamis
Published in: ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp49357.2023.10095696

How do smart energy systems aggravate injustices against marginalised groups?

Author(s): Sharma, N
Published in: STS Conference, Graz 2022, Issue Joint Annual Conference of the Science, Technology and Society Unit, 2022
Publisher: Graz University of Technology

Methodological innovations and challenges for research in and on smart/connected home environments

Author(s): Sharma, N., & Pereira, V
Published in: RELINK Project Workshop, 2021
Publisher: RELINK Project

Quantification of dairy farm energy consumption to support the transition to sustainable farming

Author(s): Tamara Todic, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing 2022, 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/smartcomp55677.2022.00082

The design space of building user-centered AI user interfaces for smart heating systems.

Author(s): Jin, Lu, and Alexander Boden
Published in: UCAI 2023: Workshop on User-Centered Artificial Intelligence, 2023
Publisher: Mensch und Computer conference
DOI: 10.18420/muc2023-mci-ws16-384

Peeking Inside the Schufa Blackbox: Explaining the German Housing Scoring System

Author(s): Kern Dean-Robin, Stevens Gunnar, Dethier Erik, Naveed Sidra, Alizadeh Fatemeh, Du Delong, Md Shajalal
Published in: ACM CHI 2023 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI), collocated with ACM CHI2023, 2023
Publisher: ACM

Unveiling Black-Boxes: Explainable Deep Learning Models for Patent Classification

Author(s): Md Shajalal, Sebastian Denef, Md. Rezaul Karim, Alexander Boden & Gunnar Stevens
Published in: Explainable Artificial Intelligence. xAI 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2023
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44067-0_24

Interpreting Black-box Machine Learning Models for High Dimensional Datasets

Author(s): Karim, Md. Rezaul and Shajalal, Md and Graß, Alexander and Döhmen, Till and Chala, Sisay Adugna and Boden, Alexander and Beecks, Christian and Decker, Stefan
Published in: 2023 IEEE 10th International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/dsaa60987.2023.10302562

An efficient deep bidirectional Transformer model for energy disaggregation

Author(s): Stavros Sykiotis, Maria Kaselimi, Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos Doulamis
Published in: 30th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2022, 2022
Publisher: EURASIP

Improving knowledge distillation for non-intrusive load monitoring through explainability guided learning

Author(s): Djordje Batic, Giulia Tanoni, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic, Emanuele Principi
Published in: ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Issue Jun 2023, 2023, ISBN 9781728163277
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp49357.2023.10095109

An Active Learning Framework for Microseismic Event Detection

Author(s): Tamara Sobot, David Murray, Vladimir Stankovic, Lina Stankovic, Peidong Shi
Published in: IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2024, Page(s) 493-497, ISSN 2153-7003
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/igarss53475.2024.10640569

A Fair Selection Strategy for Residential Demand Response Participants

Author(s): Christoforos Menos-Aikateriniadis, Igyso Zafeiratou, Nikolaos Charitos, Pavlos S. Georgilakis, Isidoros Kokos
Published in: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/smartgridcomm57358.2023.10333883

A Pre-Training Pruning Strategy for Enabling Lightweight Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring On Edge Devices

Author(s): Sotirios Athanasoulias, Stavros Sykiotis, Nikos Temenos, Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos Doulamis
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), 2024, Page(s) 249-253
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icasspw62465.2024.10626463

Collective construction of responsible and explainable AI for Smart Home technologies

Author(s): Pereira, V.
Published in: ARIES Winter School, 2021
Publisher: ARIES Doctoral Training Partnership

Benefits of three-phase metering for load disaggregation

Author(s): Apostolos Vavouris, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic
Published in: Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2022, Page(s) 393-397, ISBN 9781450398909
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3563357.3566149

Time and Money Matters for Sustainability: Insights on User Preferences on Renewable Energy for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Author(s): Delong Du, Apostolos Vavouris, Omid Veisi, Lu Jin, Gunnar Stevens, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic, Alexander Boden
Published in: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2024, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 269-278
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3670653.3670677

Integration of Drivers’ Routines into Lifecycle Assessment of Electric Vehicles

Author(s): Apostolos Vavouris, Lina Stankovic and Vladimir Stankovic
Published in: 8th International Electric Vehicle Conference (EVC2023), 2023
Publisher: 8th International Electric Vehicle Conference (EVC2023)

Solar Power driven EV Charging Optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Stavros Sykiotis, Christoforos Menos-Aikateriniadis, Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos Doulamis, Pavlos S. Georgilakis
Published in: 2nd International Conference on Energy Transition in the Mediterranean Area, 2022
Publisher: IEEE PES

Textual Entailment Recognition with Semantic Features from Empirical Text Representation

Author(s): Md Shajalal, Md. Atabuzzaman, Maksuda Bilkis Baby, Md Rezaul Karim and Alexander Boden,
Published in: International Conference on Speech and Language Technologies SPELLL 2022, 2023
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-33231-9_12

Learning to consume less energy through strategies of sufficiency

Author(s): Chiara Tellarini, Toke Haunstrup Christensen
Published in: European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, 2022
Publisher: European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE)

Arabic Sentiment Analysis with Noisy Deep Explainable Model

Author(s): Md. Atabuzzaman, Md Shajalal, Maksuda Bilkis Baby, Alexander Boden
Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3639233.3639241

Social justice implications of smart urban technologies: an intersectional approach

Author(s): Sharma, N.K., Hargreaves, T., & Pallett, H.
Published in: Buildings and Cities, Issue 4(1), 2023, Page(s) 315-333, ISSN 2632-6655
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/bc.290

Towards user-centered explainable energy demand forecasting systems

Author(s): Shajalal, M., Boden, A., & Stevens, G.
Published in: e-Energy ’22: Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, 2022
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3538637.3538877

Optimal scheduling of electric vehicle charging with deep reinforcement learning considering end users flexibility

Author(s): C. Menos-Aikateriniadis, S. Sykiotis, P. S. Georgilakis
Published in: 13th Mediterranean Conference on Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion (MEDPOWER 2022), 2023
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology
DOI: 10.1049/icp.2023.0007

Focus on what matters: improved feature selection techniques for personal thermal comfort modelling

Author(s): Md Shajalal, Milad Bohlouli, Hari Prasanna Das, Alexander Boden, Gunnar Stevens
Published in: BuildSys '22: Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, Issue Nov 2022, 2022, Page(s) 496-499
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3563357.3567406

Construção coletiva e sustentável de tecnologias de inteligência artificial para smart houses.

Author(s): Pereira, V.
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Grupo de Pesquisa Representação: Imaginário e Tecnologia (RITe)

Automated Decision Making Systems in Smart Homes: A Study on User Engagement and Design.

Author(s): Jin, L., Boden, A., & Shajalal, M.
Published in: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems workshop AutomationXP22: Engaging with Automation, 2022
Publisher: Organisers

Review on the Application Areas of Decision-Making Algorithms in Smart Homes

Author(s): Jin, Lu; Boden, Alexander
Published in: HHAI 2023: Augmenting Human Intellect, 2023
Publisher: IOS Press
DOI: 10.3233/faia230076

A First Approach using Graph Neural Networks on Non-Intrusive-Load-Monitoring

Author(s): Sotirios Athanasoulias, Stavros Sykiotis, Maria Kaselimi, Eftychios Protopapadakis, Nikolaos Ipiotis
Published in: PETRA '22: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, Issue June 2022, 2022, Page(s) 601–607, ISBN 978-1-4503-9631-8
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3529190.3534722

Visual prototyping the Smart-House future: a proposed co-design experience based on the collective imaginary from the cinema.

Author(s): Pereira, V., & Barros, G.
Published in: Actes du IV Colloque International Imaginaire: Construire et Habiter la Terre: mégalopoles, métropoles, villes à la campagne, villes décroissantes. Quels imaginaires pour la ville de demain?., 2021
Publisher: IV Colloque International Imaginaire: Construire et Habiter la Terre: mégalopoles, métropoles, villes à la campagne, villes décroissantes. Quels imaginaires pour la ville de demain?

Analysing co-design methods applied to energy-related smart home technologies

Author(s): Fernanda Guasselli, Aalborg, Vinicius Pereira, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen,
Published in: European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (eceee) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency., 2022
Publisher: European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (eceee)

Optimal Scheduling of Electric Vehicle Charging with Deep Reinforcement Learning Considering End Users Flexibility

Author(s): Christoforos Menos-Aikateriniadis, Stavros Sykiotis, Pavlos S. Georgilakis
Published in: 13th Mediterranean Conference on Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion (MEDPOWER2022), 2022
Publisher: IET

An interoperable and cost-effective IoT-based Framework for Household Energy Monitoring and Analysis

Author(s): Sotirios Athanasoulias, Athina Katsari, Michail Savvakis, Stelios Kalogridis, Nikolaos Ipiotis
Published in: 16th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA '23), 2023, Page(s) 589–595, ISBN 9798400700699
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3594806.3596541

Explaining AI Decisions: Towards Achieving Human-Centered Explainability in Smart Home Environments

Author(s): Md Shajalal, Alexander Boden, Gunnar Stevens, Delong Du, Dean-Robin Kern
Published in: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 2024, Page(s) 418-440
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63803-9_23

What Matters in Explanations: Towards Explainable Fake Review Detection Focusing on Transformers

Author(s): Md Shajalal, Md Atabuzzaman, Alexander Boden, Gunnar Stevens, Delong Du
Published in: arXiv, 2024
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.21056

Provocative AI: Beyond Calm Interactions

Author(s): Hargreaves, T., Pereira V.J.
Published in: IEEE Pervasive Computing, Issue 22(3), 2023, ISSN 1536-1268
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
DOI: 10.1109/mprv.2023.3282819

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