This is the first part of a two-part paper that has arisen from the work of the IEEE Power
Engineering Society's Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) Working Group. Part I of this paper …

The complexity of electricity markets calls for rich and flexible modeling techniques that help
to understand market dynamics and to derive advice for the design of appropriate regulatory …

Agent-based simulation has become increasingly popular as a modeling approach in the
social sciences because it enables researchers to build models where individual entities …

This paper addresses a set of methodological problems arising in the empirical validation of
agent-based (AB) economics models and discusses how these are currently being tackled …

This paper addresses the methodological problems of empirical validation in agent-based
(AB) models in economics and how these are currently being tackled. We first identify a set …

Abstract In April 2003 the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposed a
complicated market design—the Wholesale Power Market Platform (WPMP)—for common …

Renewable energy planners in develo** countries should be cautious in using analytical
tools formulated in developed countries. Traditional energy consumption, economic and …