The denition of emergence remains problematic, particularly for systemswith purposeful human interactions. This study explores the practical importof this concept within a specic market context: namely, a double-auctionmarket for wholesale electric power that operates over a transmission...

Many critical goods and services in modern-day economies are producedand distributed through complex institutional arrangements. Agent-based computationaleconomics (ACE) modeling tools are capable of handling this degree of complexity.In concrete support of this claim, this study presents an ACE...

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...

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,...

Nonlinear AC Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problems are commonly approximatedby linearized DC OPF problems to obtain real power solutions for restructured wholesalepower markets. We first present a standard DC OPF problem, which has thenumerically desirable form of a strictly convex quadratic...

Short-term congestion forecasting is highlyimportant for market participants in wholesale power marketsthat use Locational Marginal Prices (LMPs) to managecongestion. Accurate congestion forecasting facilitates markettraders in bidding and trading activities and assists marketoperators in system...