Cooperative Flexibility Exchange: Fair and Comfort-Aware Decentralized Resource Allocation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04192v1
• Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2025 13:17:12 GMT
• Title: Cooperative Flexibility Exchange: Fair and Comfort-Aware Decentralized Resource Allocation
• Authors: Rabiya Khalid, Evangelos Pournaras,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a novel decentralized multi-agent coordination-based demand-side management system.<n>Agents coordinate for demand-side energy optimization while improving the user comfort and maintaining the system efficiency.<n>A key innovation of this work is the introduction of a slot exchange mechanism, where agents first receive optimized appliance-level energy consumption schedules and then coordinate with each other to adjust these schedules through slot exchanges.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The growing electricity demand and increased use of smart appliances are placing new pressures on power grids, making efficient energy management more important than ever. The existing energy management systems often prioritize system efficiency (balanced energy demand and supply) at the expense of user comfort. This paper addresses this gap by proposing a novel decentralized multi-agent coordination-based demand-side management system. The proposed system enables individual agents to coordinate for demand-side energy optimization while improving the user comfort and maintaining the system efficiency. A key innovation of this work is the introduction of a slot exchange mechanism, where agents first receive optimized appliance-level energy consumption schedules and then coordinate with each other to adjust these schedules through slot exchanges. This approach improves user comfort even when agents show non-altruistic behaviour, and it scales well with large populations. The system also promotes fairness by balancing satisfaction levels across users. For performance evaluation, a real-world dataset is used, and the results demonstrate that the proposed slot exchange mechanism increases user comfort and fairness without raising system inefficiency cost, making it a practical and scalable solution for future smart grids.

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