Governing the Transition of Socio-technical Systems: A Case Study of the Development of Smart Grids in Korea

This chapter seeks to further develop, define, and differentiate human-technics alterity relations within postphenomenological philosophy of technology. A central case study of the Alexa digital assistant establishes that digital assistants require the adoption of the intentional stance, and illustrates that this structural requirement is different from anthropomorphic projection of mindedness onto technical objects. Human-technics alterity relations based on projection are then more generally differentiated from human-technics alterity relations based on actual encoded pseudo-mental contents, where there are matters of fact that directly correspond to user conceptualizations of “intentions” or “knowledge” in technical systems or objects. Finally, functions and user benefits to different alterity relations are explored, establishing that there is a meaningful set of cases where the projection of a mind in human-technics alterity relations positively impacts technical functions and user experiences.

Download Full-text

The Satellite-Based M2M Services for Smart Grids: Case Study

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering - Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems ◽

10.1007/978-981-13-6264-4_104 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 886-890

Author(s):

Ning Jiang ◽

Chengjun Yang ◽

Xiaobo Guo ◽

Zhijian Zhang ◽

Jian Wang

Keyword(s):

Smart Grids

Download Full-text

Modelling and Simulation Perspective in Service Design

Handbook of Research on Strategic Alliances and Value Co-Creation in the Service Industry - Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2084-9.ch019 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 374-399

Author(s):

Monica Dragoicea ◽

Joao Falcao e Cunha ◽

Monica Viorela Alexandru ◽

Denisa Andreea Constantinescu

Keyword(s):

Systems Engineering ◽

Service Design ◽

Modelling And Simulation ◽

Service Systems ◽

Design Stage ◽

Agent Based ◽

Strong Focus ◽

Interaction Modelling ◽

Technical Systems

This chapter discusses the development of improved citizen services taking into consideration integration of agent-based modelling and simulation experience into conceiving, design and implementation activities with a strong focus on technology enabled service systems. Service design is formalized here towards the integration of customer experience, validated through service interaction modelling. Integration of user experience at design stage in the value co-creation process is a possible immediate evolution direction of projects in the Smarter Cities perspective. Guidelines for integrating a modelling and simulation perspective in service design are presented along with the Socio-Technical Systems Engineering process. The case study presented here is dedicated to Smart Transport. The chapter opens a larger discussion on specific research directions and knowledge transfer related to Smart Transport as highlighted in EU projects.

Download Full-text

An Effectiveness Modelling Approach for IoT-Based Smart Grids

Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing - Design, Applications, and Maintenance of Cyber-Physical Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-6721-0.ch005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 92-111

Author(s):

Dongming Fan ◽

Yi Ren ◽

Qiang Feng

Keyword(s):

Smart Grid ◽

Smart Grids ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Self Healing ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Agent Based ◽

Efficient Energy ◽

Real Time Analysis ◽

Multi Agent

The smart grid is a new paradigm that enables highly efficient energy production, transport, and consumption along the whole chain from the source to the user. The smart grid is the combination of classical power grid with emerging communication and information technologies. IoT-based smart grid will be one of the largest instantiations of the IoT in the future. The effectiveness of IoT-based smart grid is mainly reflected in observability, real-time analysis, decision-making, and self-healing. A proper effectiveness modeling approach should maintain the reliability and maintainability of IoT-based smart grids. In this chapter, a multi-agent-based approach is proposed to model the architecture of IoT-based smart grids. Based on the agent framework, certain common types of agents are provided to describe the operation and restoration process of smart grids. A case study is demonstrated to model an IoT-based smart grid with restoration, and the interactive process with agents is proposed simultaneously.

Download Full-text

Secure Load Frequency Control of Smart Grids under Deception Attack: A Piecewise Delay Approach

Energies ◽

10.3390/en12122266 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (12) ◽

pp. 2266 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Fei Zhao ◽

Jinsha Yuan ◽

Ning Wang ◽

Zhang Zhang ◽

Helong Wen

Keyword(s):

Smart Grids ◽

Controller Design ◽

Design Method ◽

Frequency Control ◽

Functional Method ◽

Load Frequency Control ◽

Linear Matrix ◽

Load Frequency ◽

The Stability

The problem of secure load frequency control of smart grids is investigated in this paper. The networked data transmission within the smart grid is corrupted by stochastic deception attacks. First, a unified Load frequency control model is constructed to account for both network-induced effects and deception attacks. Second, with the Lyapunov functional method, a piecewise delay analysis is conducted to study the stability of the established model, which is of less conservativeness. Third, based on the stability analysis, a controller design method is provided in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, a case study is carried out to demonstrate the derived results.

Download Full-text