"This book explores the emerging realm of swarm intelligence, which finds its basis in the natural social behavior of animals, and applies to apply this behavior to independent intelligent agents, creating complex solutions for real world applications"--Provided by publisher.

The penetration of distributed generation, energy storages and smart loads has resulted in the emergence of prosumers: entities capable of adjusting their electricity production and consumption in order to meet environmental goals and to participate profitably in the available electricity...