In the future smart grids, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) are seen as an important
means of transportation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. One of the main issues …

Implementation of various incentive-based and time-based load management strategies has
great potential to decrease peak load growth and customer electricity bill cost. In recent …

This paper addresses implementation of Demand Response (DR) programs in competitive
electricity markets. An overview of present status of the application of DR programs in major …

Public vehicle (PV) systems are promising transportation systems for future smart cities
which provide dynamic ride-sharing services according to passengers' requests. PVs are …

There is a need to integrate Demand Response (DR) into the management of the electricity
market and power system within both planning and operational timescales. This paper …

In this paper, we present demand-side energy management under real-time demand-
response pricing as a task scheduling problem which is NP-hard. Using minmax as the …

Demand Response (DR) is a method for achieving energy efficiency through stimulating end-
users to adjust their demand to respond to change in electricity markets. Significant …

Context-aware services need to acquire context information from heterogeneous context
sources. The diversity of service requirements posts challenges on context provisioning …

With the increasing popularity of services published online, energy consumption of services
computing systems is growing dramatically. Besides Quality of Service (QoS), energy …

Energy efficiency and energy consumption awareness are a growing priority for many
countries. Among the large variety of methods proposed by energy scientists and …