The concept of microgrid has emerged as a feasible answer to cope with the increasing
number of distributed renewable energy sources which are being introduced into the …

Abstract Industry 4.0 and 5.0 are currently pushing towards a reconciliation between
humans and the concurrent evolution of cyber-physical systems of systems. This constitutes …

The research initiative “self-improving system integration”(SISSY) was established with the
goal to master the ever-changing demands of system organisation in the presence of …

A distributed system's functionality must continuously evolve, especially when environmental
context changes. Such required evolution imposes unbearable complexity on system …

System integration from sub-systems has always been a major engineering problem, which
is progressively exacerbated by (1) sub-systems becoming more diverse, self-* and …

Smart grids play an important role for energy management by directly supporting the socio-
ecological transition of neighbourhoods. This research provides the design of a coordination …

A prosumer is a consumer who uses tiny, renewable electricity generation units and, in
addition to consumption, can also generate electricity. With the increase in the number of …

The architecture of coordination mechanisms is central to the performance and behaviour of
(self-) integrated systems across natural, socio-technical and cyber–physical domains. Multi …

Today's control systems such as smart environments have the ability to adapt to their
environment in order to achieve a set of objectives (eg, comfort, security and energy …

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay communications networks have emerged as a new paradigm for
implementing distributed services in microgrids due to their potential benefits: they are …