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XAI-Arena: Can LLMs Assess the Quality of XAI Explanations?
Yanfei Hu Fleischhauer, Alona Zharova, Nadja Klein +1
Evaluating the quality of explanations produced by explainable AI (XAI) methods remains challenging because existing approaches often rely on subjective human judgment, limiting re…
Algorithmic Control Improves Residential Building Energy and EV Management when PV Capacity is High but Battery Capacity is Low
Lennart Ullner, Alona Zharova, Felix Creutzig
Efficient energy management in prosumer households is key to alleviating grid stress in an energy transition marked by electric vehicles (EV), renewable energies and battery storag…
Beware of "Explanations" of AI
David Martens, Galit Shmueli, Theodoros Evgeniou +14
Understanding the decisions made and actions taken by increasingly complex AI system remains a key challenge. This has led to an expanding field of research in explainable artifici…
An Assessment of the CO Emission Reduction Potential of Residential Load Management in Developing and Developed Countries
Alona Zharova, Felix Creutzig
Intermittent renewable energies are increasingly dominating electricity grids and are forecasted to be the main force driving out fossil fuels from the grid in most major economies…
Multistep Multiappliance Load Prediction
Alona Zharova, Antonia Scherz
A well-performing prediction model is vital for a recommendation system suggesting actions for energy-efficient consumer behavior. However, reliable and accurate predictions depend…
Activity-Based Recommendations for Demand Response in Smart Sustainable Buildings
Alona Zharova, Laura Löschmann
The energy consumption of private households amounts to approximately 30% of the total global energy consumption, causing a large share of the CO2 emissions through energy producti…
Understanding User Perception and Intention to Use Smart Homes for Energy Efficiency: A Survey
Alona Zharova, Hee-Eun Lee
Smart Home technology is increasingly seen as a solution for improving household energy efficiency. However, its energy-saving potential depends largely on how consumers use the sy…
Explainable Multi-Agent Recommendation System for Energy-Efficient Decision Support in Smart Homes
Alona Zharova, Annika Boer, Julia Knoblauch +2
Understandable and persuasive recommendations support the electricity consumers' behavioral change to tackle the energy efficiency problem. Generating load shifting recommendations…
Utility-Based Context-Aware Multi-Agent Recommendation System for Energy Efficiency in Residential Buildings
Valentyna Riabchuk, Leon Hagel, Felix Germaine +1
A significant part of CO2 emissions is due to high electricity consumption in residential buildings. Using load shifting can help to improve the households' energy efficiency. To n…
How to Measure the Performance of a Collaborative Research Center
Alona Zharova, Janine Tellinger-Rice, Wolfgang Karl Härdle
New Public Management helps universities and research institutions to perform in a highly competitive research environment. Evaluating publicly financed research improves transpare…