{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Randomized Load Control: A Simple Distributed Approach for Scheduling Smart Appliances","authors":[{"name":"Menkes van den Briel","slug":"menkes-van-den-briel","given":"Menkes","family":"van den Briel","affiliation":""},{"name":"Paul Scott","slug":"paul-scott","given":"Paul","family":"Scott","affiliation":""},{"name":"Sylvie Thiébaux","slug":"sylvie-thiebaux","given":"Sylvie","family":"Thiébaux","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"A significant portion of the electricity network capacity is built to run only a few days a year when demand peaks. As a result, expensive power generation plants and equipment costing millions of dollars are sitting idle most of the time, which increases costs for everyone. We present randomized load control, a simple distributed approach for scheduling smart appliances. Randomized load control schedules the start time of appliances that are programmed to run within a specified time window, so that the aggregate load achieves a given ideal load. Our results show that we do achieve the given ideal load to a great extent. This is remarkable as the approach is completely distributed and preserves customer privacy as the scheduling happens within each house or building separately.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/428","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/0428.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/428.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/bibtex/428","volume":{"slug":"2013","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2013","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/","year":2013,"location":"Beijing, China","dates":"3–9 August 2013","editors":"Francesca Rossi","isbn":"978-1-57735-633-2","publisher":"AAAI Press / International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":428,"pages":{"first":2915,"last":2921},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}