arXiv:2606. 31347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The electrification of transportation through electric vehicles introduces new challenges for power grid management, such as increased peak demand, voltage fluctuations, line overloads, and the integration of variable renewable energy sources.
By Xavier Rate, Eloann Le Guern, Rapha\"el F\'eraud, Fatma Salem, Melissa Chiknoun, Eymeric Giabicani, Mehdi Feki, Patrick Maill\'e, Guy Camilleri, Anne Blavette, Hamid Benhamed
BIPPO (Budget-aware Independent Proximal Policy Optimization) is a multi‑agent reinforcement learning framework designed for energy‑efficient client selection in federated learning (FL) over IoT systems. It addresses infrastructure constraints such as limited resources and device churn, which traditional FL and RL approaches overlook. Evaluated on two image‑classification tasks with non‑IID data, BIPPO improves mean accuracy over non‑RL methods, standard PPO, and IPPO while consuming only a negligible portion of the budget, even as client numbers grow.
By Anna Lackinger, Andrea Morichetta, Pantelis A. Frangoudis, Schahram Dustdar
arXiv:2606. 19199v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The recent growth of EV adoption poses challenges for power systems, including increased peak demand and potential grid instability.
By Giuseppe Gabriele, Fabio Pavirani, Seyed Soroush Karimi Madahi, Chris Develder
The paper introduces an agent‑based modeling framework that integrates a physical infrastructure layer, a V2X connectivity layer, and a decision layer using reinforcement learning and multi‑agent reinforcement learning to simulate smart freight corridors. Three scenarios—Baseline, Assisted, and Cognitive—are evaluated on throughput, congestion, energy, emissions, and robustness, with the Cognitive scenario outperforming the baseline in throughput and congestion, and the Assisted scenario achieving energy savings via platooning. Sensitivity analysis shows that the smart corridor’s throughput advantage grows under high demand and that MARL coordination better utilizes fixed charging capacity than rule‑based methods.
By Madelaine Martinez-Ferguson, Chun Wang, Mustafa Can Camur, Xueping Li
arXiv:2607. 06489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The dairy industry in Ireland has a large potential for the integration of renewable energy and the reduction of carbon emissions.
By Marcos Eduardo Cruz Victorio, Karl Mason
The paper introduces DR‑Gym, an open‑source, Gymnasium‑compatible environment that simulates electric utility demand‑response programs at the market level. It uses a regime‑switching wholesale price model calibrated to real extreme events and physics‑based building demand profiles, providing a rich observational space and a configurable multi‑objective reward function for reinforcement learning. Baseline strategies and data snapshots demonstrate the simulator’s realism and learnability.
By Jose E. Aguilar Escamilla, Lingdong Zhou, Xiangqi Zhu, Huazheng Wang