Towards a bottom-up development of reference architectures for smart energy systems

Maximilian Irlbeck, Denis Bytschkow, Georg Hackenberg and Vasileios Koutsoumpas

Software Engineering Challenges for the Smart Grid (SE4SG), 2013 2nd International Workshop on, pp.9-16, May 18, 2013

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Publication Abstract

Smart energy systems seem a promising choice for countries worldwide to realign their power systems to the challenges predicted for the next decades. With the will to participate in this class of systems, many solution providers design custom systems, which sometimes consist of similar parts, but are on the contrary hard to compare to each other. However, a reference describing existing commonalities is needed as a basis for many activities such as regulation design, legislation, national discussion or standardization. This paper illustrates the challenges connected with the creation of reference architectures for smart energy systems, delineates their benefits and suggests a model and method for their incremental, bottom-up development and validation through concrete system architectures.

BibTeX Citation

@INPROCEEDINGS{, 
	author={Irlbeck, M. and Bytschkow, D. and Hackenberg, G. and Koutsoumpas, V.}, 
	booktitle={Software Engineering Challenges for the Smart Grid (SE4SG), 2013 2nd International Workshop on}, 
	title={Towards a bottom-up development of reference architectures for smart energy systems}, 
	year={2013}, 
	month={May}, 
	pages={9-16}
}