From March 30th to 31st, Kim K. Miskiw and Marie Thederan from the Chair of Prof. Weinhardt attended the ABM4Energy Conference 2026 on Agent-Based Modeling for Energy Economics and Energy Policy in Vienna. The event was the perfect opportunity to present our latest research with ASSUME (Agent-Based Electricity Markets Simulation Toolbox) and discuss future directions with other researchers in agent-based modeling for energy-related topics.

From the group of Smart Grids and Energy Markets, Kim K. Miskiw presented her work with the title “Beyond Reward: Equilibrium Validation for MADRL-Based Electricity Market Simulations”.

Marie Thederan contributed with a poster on “Two-Level Reinforcement Learning for Energy Policy and Market Design” which received the Best Poster Award.

Overall, the ASSUME team had a strong contribution track record with three posters, two presentations and one workshop. But most excitingly ASSUME gains more outside collaborators (Hertie School, IZES, KIT-IIP, FH Aachen), also presenting their work in 4 more presentations!

More information on the program and presented topics is available here.