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In recent years, Time Series Prediction and clustering have been employed in hyperactive and evolving environments –where temporal data play an important role– as a result of the need for reliable methods to estimate and predict the pattern or behavior of events and systems. Power Stock Markets are such highly dynamic and competitive auction environments, additionally perplexed by constrained power laws in the various stages, from production to transmission and consumption. As with all real-time auctioning environments, the limited time available for decision making provides an ideal testbed for autonomous agents to develop bidding strategies that exploit time series prediction. Within the context of this paper, we present Cassandra, a dynamic platform that fosters the development of Data-Mining enhanced Multi-agent systems. Special attention was given on the efficiency and reusability of Cassandra, which provides Plug-n-Play capabilities, so that users may adapt their solution to the problem at hand. Cassandra’s functionality is demonstrated through a pilot case, where autonomously adaptive Recurrent Neural Networks in the form of Echo State Networks are encapsulated into Cassandra agents, in order to generate power load and settlement price prediction models in typical Day-ahead Power Markets. The system has been tested in a real-world scenario, that of the Greek Energy Stock Market.
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Chatzidimitriou, K.C., Chrysopoulos, A.C., Symeonidis, A.L., Mitkas, P.A. (2012). Enhancing Agent Intelligence through Evolving Reservoir Networks for Predictions in Power Stock Markets. In: Cao, L., Bazzan, A.L.C., Symeonidis, A.L., Gorodetsky, V.I., Weiss, G., Yu, P.S. (eds) Agents and Data Mining Interaction. ADMI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7103. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27609-5_15
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