@inproceedings{a6fb368b63f24035ba6e213856bd1929,
title = "Evaluation of a heuristic approach for efficient scheduling of residential smart home appliances",
abstract = "Load scheduling will play an important role in achieving Demand Response (DR) at the consumption level of the emerging smart grid. This paper presents the evaluation of a heuristic approach for scheduling residential smart home appliances. The proposed heuristic schedules appliances one after the other in accordance with a greedy strategy without backtracking. This is such that the worst-case computation time is reduced compared to an exact search, at the expense of a potential loss of optimality in the obtained solution. In this paper the performance of the proposed heuristic is evaluated against an exact algorithm across the course of a full year using representative hourly prices of electricity. The results verify the suitability of the algorithm for the implementation of residential energy management decision support system.",
author = "Chris Ogwumike and Michael Short",
year = "2015",
month = jul,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1109/EEEIC.2015.7165484",
language = "English",
series = "2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, EEEIC 2015 - Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "2017--2022",
booktitle = "2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, EEEIC 2015 - Conference Proceedings",
address = "United States",
note = "15th IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, EEEIC 2015 ; Conference date: 10-06-2015 Through 13-06-2015",
}