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How will we trade energy in the future? We can expect vast technological changes in our energy systems, leading to high heterogeneity in both supply and demand. Knowing the true value of energy at a given time and location will be crucial. Market mechanisms are methods of determining prices in complex, multi-actor settings. In the Intelligent Systems group at CWI, we have developed a research environment in which different market mechanisms for electricity can be studied and evaluated - in interaction, remotely and in a scalable manner.

Can patient planning be more efficient? The Computational Intelligence and Multiagent Games (SEN4) research group at CWI uses software agents and smart, adaptive algorithms to improve hospital patient scheduling and to better match patients’ appointments to their own preferences.

The Acoi project provides a large-scale experimentation platform to facilitate studies in the area of indexing multimedia objects and their subsequent retrieval. The index model is based on assembling the results of feature detection algorithms into hierarchical structures to classify the objects. This paper provides an overview of the Acoi architecture and the Feature Detector Engine (FDE) model. Central to its design is a grammatical description of the feature relations to classify the multimedia objects and to steer their detection and storage. Its role is informally introduced.