Framework to Enable Heterogeneous Systems Interoperability

The electricity markets have been suffering profound changes over the years. Nowadays, the European Union comes to reformulate its politics related with renewable energy sources, in order to encourage microgeneration, having demand response as one of the biggest challenges. Various simulators have been developed that intend to give decision support to the various entities. However, they present the limitation of being designed to answer specific problems. This paper proposes the framework Tools Control Center (TOOCC) as the mechanism to integrate various independent and heterogeneous simulators, so they operate as a unique simulation tool and become capable of answering to more complex problems.This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 641794 (project DREAM-GO) and from FEDER Funds through COMPETE program and from National Funds through FCT under the project UID/EEA/00760/2013