The continued development of distributed energy resources (DER), information and
communications technologies is enabling a greater number of parties to participate in …

The design of efficient Demand Response (DR) mechanisms for the residential sector
entails significant challenges, due to the large number of home users and the negligible …

A major challenge to implementing residential demand response is that of aligning the
objectives of many households, each of which aims to minimize its payments and maximize …

This paper presents a decentralized control strategy for the scheduling of electrical energy
activities of a microgrid composed of smart homes connected to a distributor and …

We utilize a for-profit aggregator-based residential demand response (DR) approach to the
smart grid resource allocation problem. The aggregator entity, using a given set of …

Managing electricity in the grid is a key point to reach energy efficiency while enabling an
increased use of renewable energies. To take stakeholders into account, they need to be …

A faithful distributed mechanism is proposed in this paper for sharing the cost of electricity
among a large number of strategic and distributed household agents that have private …

To address the new challenges arising from the higher penetration of renewable energy in
electrical grid, Demand Response (DR) aims to involve the residential consumers in the grid …