| Summary: | The purpose of this paper is to provide support to autonomous microgrids that cannot perform a large contract alone. To fulfil a higher external request, the microgrid managers are obliged to outsource parts of their contracts even to competing microgrids. Inside these business exchanges, each microgrid prefers to maintain their decision autonomy. To model this business interaction, we introduce an intelligent system to manage simultaneous negotiations among autonomous microgrids. The proposed smart system helps the microgrids inside the collaborative network to grow their efficiency and the competitiveness of their market. Furthermore, conserving the interoperability inside the dynamic business environment is hard to realize. In this regard, this paper tackles interoperability issues by proposing negotiation activities as the key solution to settle these problems. Negotiation is the mutual resolution acceptable for all microgrids within the collaborative network. This paper outlines therein a negotiation approach in which intelligent negotiation agents evaluate and change offers and counteroffers. Moreover, the negotiation process is based on a communication protocol among the intelligent agents. The proposed intelligent system for autonomous microgrids cooperation has the potential to synchronize multiple negotiations that occur at the same time in which many partners can participate who can be the initiators of negotiations or guests in the respective negotiations.
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