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Putting the 'smarts' into the smart grid: a grand challenge for artificial intelligence

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A research agenda for making the smart grid a reality.

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            Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 4
            April 2012
            110 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2133806
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