Parallel Building: A Complex System Approach for Smart Building Energy Management

These days' smart buildings have high intensive information and massive operational parameters, not only extensive power consumption. With the development of computation capability and future 5 G, the ACP theory(i.e., artificial systems,computational experiments, and parallel computing) will play a much more crucial role in modeling and control of complex systems like commercial and academic buildings. The necessity of making accurate predictions of energy consumption out of a large number of operational parameters has become a crucial problem in smart buildings. Previous attempts have been made to seek energy consumption predictions based on historical data in buildings. However, there are still questions about parallel building consumption prediction mechanism using a large number of operational parameters. This article proposes a novel hybrid deep learning prediction approach that utilizes long short-term memory as an encoder and gated recurrent unit as a decoder in conjunction with ACP theory. The proposed approach is tested and validated by real-world dataset, and the results outperformed traditional predictive models compared in this paper.

Parallel Dispatch:A New Paradigm of Electrical Power System Dispatch

Modern power systems are evolving into sociotechnical systems with massive complexity, whose real-time operation and dispatch go beyond human capability. Thus,the need for developing and applying new intelligent power system dispatch tools are of great practical significance. In this paper, we introduce the overall business model of power system dispatch, the top level design approach of an intelligent dispatch system, and the parallel intelligent technology with its dispatch applications. We expect that a new dispatch paradigm,namely the parallel dispatch, can be established by incorporating various intelligent technologies, especially the parallel intelligent technology, to enable secure operation of complex power grids,extend system operators' capabilities, suggest optimal dispatch strategies, and to provide decision-making recommendations according to power system operational goals.

Where Does AlphaGo Go: From Church-Turing Thesis to AlphaGo Thesis and Beyond

An investigation on the impact and significance of the AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol Go match is conducted, and concludes with a conjecture of the AlphaGo Thesis and its extension in accordance with the Church-Turing Thesis in the history of computing. It is postulated that the architecture and method utilized by the AlphaGo program provide an engineering solution for tackling issues in complexity and intelligence. Specifically, the AlphaGo Thesis implies that any effective procedure for hard decision problems such as NP-hard can be implemented with AlphaGo-like approach. Deep rule-based networks are proposed in attempt to establish an understandable structure for deep neural networks in deep learning. The success of AlphaGo and corresponding thesis ensure the technical soundness of the parallel intelligence approach for intelligent control and management of complex systems and knowledge automation. © 2014 Chinese Association of Automation.

Social Energy:Mining Energy From the Society

The inherent nature of energy,i.e.,physicality,sociality and informatization,implies the inevitable and intensive interaction between energy systems and social systems.From this perspective,we define "social energy" as a complex sociotechnical system of energy systems,social systems and the derived artificial virtual systems which characterize the intense intersystem and intra-system interactions.The recent advancement in intelligent technology,including artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies,sensing and communication in Internet of Things technologies,and massive high performance computing and extreme-scale data analytics technologies,enables the possibility of substantial advancement in socio-technical system optimization,scheduling,control and management.In this paper,we provide a discussion on the nature of energy,and then propose the concept and intention of social energy systems for electrical power.A general methodology of establishing and investigating social energy is proposed,which is based on the ACP approach,i.e., "artificial systems"(A), "computational experiments"(C) and "parallel execution"(P),and parallel system methodology.A case study on the University of Denver(DU) campus grid is provided and studied to demonstrate the social energy concept.In the concluding remarks,we discuss the technical pathway,in both social and nature sciences,to social energy,and our vision on its future.

Guest Editorial for Special Issue on Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems

Cyber-physical systems(CPS)are increasingly commonplace,with applications in energy,health,transportation,and many other sectors.One of the major requirements in CPS is that the interaction between cyber-world and man-made physical world(exchanging and sharing of data and information with other physical objects and systems)must be safe,especially in bi-directional communications.In particular,there is a need to suitably address security and/or privacy concerns in this human-in-the-loop CPS ecosystem.However,existing centralized architecture models in CPS,and also the more general IoT systems,have a number of associated limitations,in terms of single point of failure,data privacy,security,robustness,etc.Such limitations reinforce the importance of designing reliable,secure and privacy-preserving distributed solutions and other novel approaches,such as those based on blockchain technology due to its features(e.g.,decentralization,transparency and immutability of data).This is the focus of this special issue.

Mutually trustworthy human-machine knowledge automation and hybrid augmented intelligence:mechanisms and applications of cognition,management,and control for complex systems

In this paper,we aim to illustrate the concept of mutually trustworthy human-machine knowledge automation(HM-KA)as the technical mechanism of hybrid augmented intelligence(HAI)based complex system cognition,management,and control(CMC).We describe the historical development of complex system science and analyze the limitations of human intelligence and machine intelligence.The need for using human-machine HAI in complex systems is then explained in detail.The concept of“mutually trustworthy HM-KA”mechanism is proposed to tackle the CMC challenge,and its technical procedure and pathway are demonstrated using an example of corrective control in bulk power grid dispatch.It is expected that the proposed mutually trustworthy HM-KA concept can provide a novel and canonical mechanism and benefit real-world practices of complex system CMC.

Parallel intelligence： toward lifelong and eternal developmental AI and learning in cyber-physical-social spaces

Dear editor, Fundamentally, there are only two main approaches so far in artificial intelligence （AI）： reasoning-oriented formal logic approach and function-oriented computational intelligence approach, so called Neats vs. Scuruffies, which is a reflection of the historical fight between two schools of thought for formalism and empiricism respectively in the field of AI that is continuing even today.

Call for Papers SEE Special Issueon"Hybrid-augmented Intelligence in Power Systems Operation and Control"

Power systems operation and control is concerned essentially with the cognition,management,and control(CMC)process for complex power systems.A power system with high a penetration rate of renewable energies,i.e.,the"Next-Generation Power Systems",has featured characteristics of open operational environments,complex system components,diverse operational modes,tightly coupled component behaviours,stringent demand on real-time response performance,high criticality.