REVIEW OF MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (MAS), A NEW TOOL FOR THE CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF MODERN POWER SYSTEMS

In computer science, as in any other science, several new ideas, concepts and paradigms emerged over time and became the “Big idea” or “Big excitement” of the discipline. The ‘90s brought the concept of agents in computer science and this term is now as fashionable as object-oriented was in the ‘80s or artificial intelligence in the ‘70s. Being fashionable means that anyone who wants to be “en vogue” will use it, that maybe more expectation than needed will be put in the new concept and that there is the great risk of having an overused word. Then why agents in computer science and do they bring us anything new in modeling and constructing our applications? The answer is definitively YES and the papers contributes to justify this answer. The paper denotes a review on the past papers related to multi-agent system (MAS) and the applications in power systems.