Description

Leader of the group Intelligent and Autonomous Systems: Eric Pauwels.

Increasingly, our social and technological world is organised around complex systems. These are dynamic networks of interacting nodes (or agents) that continuously exchange digital or physical resources, including data or information, energy, materials and products. The agents in these systems face real challenges, as they often only have access to partial and noisy information and need to operate in a constantly changing and uncertain environment. As a consequence, there is an unrelenting pressure to improve the network’s overall performance and resilience by making the individual nodes more intelligent and autonomous.

In our research group, we study generic and fundamental mechanisms that enable the emergence of various degrees of organization, intelligence and autonomy in such systems, and apply them to concrete problems of societal relevance.

For more information on our seminars, visit the seminar webpage.

We invite talented Master's and PhD candidates to have a look at our internships.

Vacancies

Internship at CWI Amsterdam (duration 6 months) for business development of a novel product idea in energy flexibility trading

Energy systems are currently in a revolutionary transition, due to the increasing inclusion of sustainable energy sources. Whereas in the past, energy supply was determined by demand and was supplied centrally, in the future, demand and increasingly decentralized supply will need to respond to each other. Their balancing requires a combination of adjusting conventional generation, exploiting efficient storage technologies and implementing demand response with corresponding incentives thereof. Balancing activities may take place on multiple scales, from the individual household to the European or even an envisioned global grid. The transition to smart energy systems is changing business processes, markets and exchange traded products for balancing flexibility.

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News

Tim Baarslag finalist for New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2018

Tim Baarslag, researcher at the Intelligent and Autonomous Systems group at CWI, is one of the five finalists for the ‘New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2018’ prize. This prize is awarded annually by New Scientist to a young researcher with a high scientific and social impact who reaches a broad audience through his or her outreach activities.

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Vote for Tim Baarslag as ‘New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2018’

CWI's Tim Baarslag has been nominated for the ‘New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2018’ prize. This prize is awarded annually to a young researcher with a high scientific and social impact, who reaches a broad audience through his or her outreach activities.

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Inaugural lecture Nanda Piersma: urban analytics for smart cities

On 17 April 2018, Nanda Piersma will give her inaugural lecture titled ‘Through the clouds, urban analytics for smart cities’. Piersma is part of CWI’s Intelligent and Autonomous Systems research group and professor by special appointment at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

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Energy Intranets project awarded by NWO

In the 'Energy Systems Integration & Big Data' round NWO has awarded six projects. CWI is in the lead of one programme and takes part in another.

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Publications

Current projects with external funding

Data-driven monitoring, prediction and real-time control for the smart grid and its users (project C)
Framework for demand-supply matching and ancillary service provision through distributed energy resources (project D)
Lectoraat Urban Analytics
PPS met Cofely
Universality, critical indices and resilience in logistics networks: a mean field approach
Adaptive clustering for Decentralised Resilient Energy Management (ADREM)
Energy loan exchange (ELE)
Flexible Assets Bid Across Markets (FABAM)
Demand response for grid-friendly quasi-autarkic energy cooperatives (Grid-Friends)
Heat and Power Systems at Industrial Sites and Harbours (HaPSISH)
Energy Intranets (NEAT)
Representing Users in a Negotiation (RUN): An Autonomous Negotiator Under Preference Uncertainty (RUN)
Using small data and big data: Neighborhood Energy & Data Management Integration System (S&B NEDMIS)
Scalable Interoperability in Information Systems for Agile Supply Chains (SIISASC)
Stable and scalable decentralized power balancing systems using adaptive clustering (STASCADE)