In April 2003 the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposed a complicated marketdesign – the Wholesale Power Market Platform (WPMP) – for common adoption byall U.S. wholesale power markets. Versions of the WPMP have been implemented in NewEngland, New York, the mid-Atlantic states,...

Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) is the computational study of economic processesmodeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents. This essay discusses the potentialuse of ACE modeling tools for the study of macroeconomic systems. Points are illustratedusing an ACE model of a two-sector...

This study uses an agent-based test bed (“AMES”)to investigate separation and volatility of locational marginalprices (LMPs) in an ISO-managed restructured wholesale powermarket operating over an AC transmission grid. Particular attentionis focused on the dynamic and cross-sectional response...

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With the increasingly ubiquitous nature of Socialnetworks and Cloud computing, users are starting to explore newways to interact with, and exploit these developing paradigms.Social networks are used to reflect real world relationships thatallow users to share information and form connections...

The cloud computing paradigm gives rise to Web service marketplaces where complex services areprovided by several modular vendors. Recently more and more intermediaries are pushing onto themarket, thereby driving competition. Offering innovative business models which are capable ofattracting...

As an emerging technology and business paradigm, Cloud Computing embeds fairlylarge amount of unexplored fields, from technological definition to business models.While the market of Cloud Computing is expected to expand in the near future, fewstudies of the actual market acceptance of the Cloud...

Die Frage nach Eigenfertigung oder Fremdbezug von IT-Servicedienstleistungen isthäufiger Bestandteil unternehmerischer Entscheidungen. Neben bekannten Outsourcingvariantenwie z. B. Application-Service-Provisioning, steht neuerdings eine weitereAlternative zur Verfügung: Cloud-Computing. In dem...