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Agent Technologies Could Lower Your Electric Bill

By IGI Global on May 28, 2010
In this unpredictable economy, who wouldn't want to see the electric bill go down? Researchers at Southampton University's School of Electronics and Computer Science are working on a system of computerized agents to help homeowners manage energy use. Through the use of energy storage devices, these scientists believe that energy usage can be improved in every home. To utilize the new technology, software agents would be installed into intelligent meters to monitor and control a series of devices in the home. The home devices would be supplied by energy storage devices at peak consumption times in order to lower peak demand. This would lower the need for generators and then reduce energy costs and carbon emissions.

This technology was developed by a team led by Dr. Alex Rogers and Professor Nick Jennings. The group of computer scientists has developed the intelligent software agents so that they will be able to optimize the energy usage in a home and use energy based on market prices for each energy source at any time. The researchers believe that energy bills could be reduced by roughly 13% in homes in the UK through use of this technology. ( www.theengineer.co.uk/news/agent-based-system-manages-energy-use/1002168.article)

IGI Global, an information science and technology publisher, is making great strides in fulfilling the need for research covering this subject area. The International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems (IJATS) (editor-in-chief Goran Trajkovski, Laureate Education Inc., USA) focuses on all aspects of agents and multi-agent systems, with a particular emphasis on how to modify established learning techniques and create new learning paradigms to address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems like energy conservation and usage. IJATS serves as an inclusive forum for discussion of theoretical and practical issues of intelligent agent technologies and multi-agent systems while bringing together scientists from different areas of computer science as well as researchers from various fields studying similar concepts.

International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems Regarding IJATS, Lubica Benuskova, the author of Computational Neurogenetic Modeling, has said, "this journal provides an opportunity to publish novel results on interesting phenomena of emergent behavior and self-organization in population of agents, and it motivates us to deliberately design new forms of artificial intelligence, embedded in virtual or physical agents, that may eventually be brought to coexistence with biological life." IJATS has been published quarterly since 2009. For more information including details on subscriptions and submissions, and a free sample issue of the journal, visit www.igi-global.com/ijats.

Among Other Related Titles Are:

• Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models ( www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=491)
• Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Agent Technology, and Collaborative Applications ( www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=280)
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