Praça, IsabelAndrade, AndréMorais, H.Cardoso, MarilioRamos, CarlosVale, Zita2013-04-162013-04-162008978-1-59593-753-7http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/1362All over the world Distributed Generation is seen as a valuable help to get cleaner and more efficient electricity. To get negotiation power and advantages of scale economy, distributed producers can be aggregated giving place to a new concept: the Virtual Power Producer. Virtual Power Producers are multitechnology and multi-site heterogeneous entities. Virtual Power Producers should adopt organization and management methodologies so that they can make Distributed Generation a really profitable activity, able to participate in the market. In this paper we address the development of a multi-agent market simulator – MASCEM – able to study alternative coalitions of distributed producers in order to identify promising Virtual Power Producers in an electricity market.engIntelligent AgentsSimulationNegotiationDecision-makingconference object2013-04-1210.1145/1363686.1363708