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Software Engineering Smart Energy Systems

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Digitalization is having a major impact on the energy sector at all levels, supporting its transition to more sustainable and smart infrastructure. Such transformation, which enables highly improved monitoring, forecasting, and automation, comes though at the cost of increased complexity. Smart Energy Systems, therefore, pose new engineering challenges that require novel tools. In the present chapter, we focus particularly on the software-engineering challenges and propose a blueprint for the design and implementation of smart energy systems. We discuss specific qualities for such systems in the form of functional, non-functional, and user requirements. We instantiate the proposed blueprint in two case studies, one about smart energy offices and one regarding demand-side management in a residential setting.

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  1. Service Computing Department, IAAS, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Marco Aiello & Ilche Georgievski

  2. Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

    Laura Fiorini

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  2. Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, MILANO, Milano, Italy

    Enrico Zio

  3. Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Florida, GAINESVILLE, FL, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

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Aiello, M., Fiorini, L., Georgievski, I. (2021). Software Engineering Smart Energy Systems. In: Fathi, M., Zio, E., Pardalos, P.M. (eds) Handbook of Smart Energy Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72322-4_21-1

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