Liberation of smart grids addressed through SOC: An application of the Service Discovery framework ACTAS

The paper interprets a smart grid as an enhanced service environment. For a reliable, autonomic integration of services without permanent actions of experts, the Service Discovery has to agree on the semantic interpretation of nonfunctional and technical criteria. The proposed service environment for smart grids applies our Service Discovery framework ACTAS (Adaptive Composition and Trading with Agents for Services), which is based on software agents and enhances SOC with ontologies for the classification and quasi-standardization of criteria and their constraints for a commonly agreed Service Discovery, Composition, and Selection taking advantage of established algorithms.