As advanced Smart Grid environments grow from a simple grid towards a complex provider ecosystem, there is an uncertain challenge on those grid environments that need to manage a risk… Click to show full abstract
As advanced Smart Grid environments grow from a simple grid towards a complex provider ecosystem, there is an uncertain challenge on those grid environments that need to manage a risk paradigm. We present an automated risk-aware service level agreements modeling to the grid provider for speed automated pricing and getting better performance to program as an agent-oriented platform. The key idea of our novel approach is proposing a risk level agreements contract and a pricing model to decrease the complexity of previous methods from an off-line service level agreement to an on-line risk level agreement for managing the risk lifecycle of contracts used to record the rights and obligations of the services and their consumers. Based on a risk level agreements contract the model optimizes resource management according to the business objective level of the provider with an online risk-aware rendezvous to define the penalty level of the cost model. The corresponding quality of service criteria is defined based on multi-class risk-aware service level agreements between Smart Grid providers and their power consumers which include the tail distributions of the per-class costs in addition to the more standard quality of service metrics such as throughput and mean delays. Our empirical experiments show the benefits of the proposed approach.
               
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