XAI-HSF: An Explainable AI Hybrid Scheduling Framework for Residential Appliances in Smart Grids
摘要
The rising residential electricity demand requests for effective and responsible Demand Side Management policies. Conventional bio-inspired algorithms based schedulers are effectual but operate as black boxes, restraining user trust. This presented work introduces an Explainable AI Hybrid Scheduling technique that associate the Binary Ecological Cycle Optimizer with an explainable AI layer using SHAP Kernel. ECO optimizes electricity charge, peak-to-average ratio (PAR), and user comfort. The outcomes show a cost reduction of 17.49% and minimization of PAR to 10.3 instead of 16.39, outperforming PSO and SSA. The XAI layer explains appliances planning decisions by underlining the role of electricity prices and appliance interactions, making scheduling transparent and user friendly, and preparing the ground for credible smart grid applications.