Incentive-based demand response (DR) program can induce end users (EUs) to reduce electricity demand during peak period through rewards. In this study, an incentive-based DR program with modified deep learning and reinforcement learning is proposed. A modified deep learning model based on recurrent neural network (MDL-RNN) was first proposed to identify the future uncertainties of environment by forecasting day-ahead wholesale electricity price, photovoltaic (PV) power output, and power load. Then, reinforcement learning (RL) was utilized to explore the optimal incentive rates at each hour which can maximize the profits of both energy service providers (ESPs) and EUs. The results showed that the proposed modified deep learning model can achieve more accurate forecasting results compared with some other methods. It can support the development of incentive-based DR programs under uncertain environment. Meanwhile, the optimized incentive rate can increase the total profits of ESPs and EUs while reducing the peak electricity demand. A short-term DR program was developed for peak electricity demand period, and the experimental results show that peak electricity demand can be reduced by 17%. This contributes to mitigating the supply-demand imbalance and enhancing power system security.
Keywords: Demand response | Modified deep learning | Reinforcement learning | Smart grid

ICT have proven to provide significant aid for appropriate integration of migrants. These tools can support the inclusion by providing guidance, education opportunities, job seeking, culture immersion and facilitating access to primary services. In this paper, a complete framework for migrants (with special focus on refugees) guidance and inclusion is presented. This framework comprises a set of novel AI tools aimed at enabling mentioned services from diverse perspectives: a) users’ profiling; b) skills matching c) recommendations; d) user profiling and e) digital companion. Consideration about data collection, data flow, architecture and interactions are provided.
Index Terms: AI users’ profiling | Deep Learning

Rejection costs for a finish-machined gearwheel with grinding burn can rise to the order of 10,000 euros each. A reduction in costs by reducing rejection rate by only 5-10 pieces per year already amortizes costs for data-acquisition hardware for online process monitoring. The grinding wheel wear, one of the major influencing factors responsible for the grinding burn, depends on a large number of influencing variables like cooling lubricant, feed rate, circumferential wheel speed and wheel topography. In the past, machine learning algorithms such as Support Vector Machines (SVM), Hidden Markov Models (HMM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have proven effective for the predictive analysis of process quality. In addition to predictive analysis, AI-based applications for process control may raise the resilience of machining processes. Using machine learning methods may also lead to a heavy reduction of cost amassed due to a physical inspection of each workpiece. With this contribution, information from previous works is leveraged and an AI-based framework for adaptive process control of a cylindrical grinding process is introduced. For the development of such a framework, three research objectives have been derived: First, the dynamic wheel wear needs to be modelled and measured, because of its strong impact on the resulting workpiece quality. Second, models to predict the quality features of the produced workpieces depending on process setup parameters and materials used have to be established. Here, special focus is set on deriving models that are independent of a specific wheel-workpiece-pair. The opportunity to use such a model in a variety of grinding configurations gives the production line consistent process support. Third, the resilience of analytical models regarding graceful degradation of sensors needs to be tackled, since the stability of such systems has to be guaranteed to be used in productive environments. Process resilience against human errors and sensor failures leads to a minimization of rejection costs in production. To do so, a framework is presented, where virtual sensors, upon the failure or detection of an erroneous signal from physical sensors, will be activated and provide signals to the downstream smart systems until the process is completed or the physical sensor is changed.
Keywords: Cylindrical Grinding | Wheel Wear | Virtual Sensors | Process Resilience | Artificial Intelligence

Computer vision is not just about breaking down images or videos into constituent pixels, but also about making sense of those pixels and comprehending what they represent. Researchers have developed some brilliant neural networks and algorithms for modern computer vision. Tremendous developments have been observed in deep learning as computational power is getting cheaper. But data-driven deep learning and cloud computing based systems face some serious limitations at edge devices in real-world scenarios. Since we cannot bring edge devices to the data-centers, so we bring AI to the edge devices with AI on the Edge. OpenVINO toolkit is a powerful tool that facilitates deployment of high-performance computer vision applications to the edge devices. It converts existing applications into hardwarefriendly and inference-optimized deployable runtime packages that operate seamlessly at the edge. The goals of this paper are to describe an in-depth survey of problems faced in existing computer vision applications and to present AI on the Edge along with OpenVINO toolkit as the solution to those problems. We redefine the workflow for deploying computer vision systems and provide an efficient approach for development and deployment of edge applications. Furthermore, we summarize the possible works and applications of AI on the Edge in future in regard to security and privacy.
Index Terms: Artificial Intelligence | Deep Learning | Neural Networks | Computer Vision | AI on the Edge | OpenVINO