Demand side management in smart grid by multi-agent systems technology

In this paper, we present a new approach for demand side management in Smart Grid. The Multi Agent Systems (MAS) Technology is actually the most suitable to face its emerging challenges, such as complex management and control, self-healing with necessity of collaboration and communication to solve a local or global problem, and many other problematic aspects. Nowadays, there is no complete environment to simulate MAS. The Agent Oriented Programming is based on multithreading, while the simulation tools don't allow it or causes their instability. Our solution consists on combining these technologies to take benefit from their advantages and strength with available features and characteristics to model and simulate smart grid as a MAS. That leads to demand side management optimization and meets the smart grid objectives and requirements.