The Eighth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies

ENERGY 2018

May 20, 2018 to May 24, 2018 - Nice, France

Deadlines

Submission

Feb 07, 2018

Notification

Mar 11, 2018

Registration

Mar 24, 2018

Camera ready

Apr 03, 2018

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

Publication

Published by IARIA Press (operated by Xpert Publishing Services)

Archived in the Open Access IARIA ThinkMind Digital Library

Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal

Indexing Procedure

Affiliated Journals

ENERGY 2018 - The Eighth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies

May 20, 2018 - May 24, 2018

ENERGY 2018

ISSN: 2308-412X
ISBN: 978-1-61208-635-4

ENERGY 2018 is colocated with the following events as part of InfoSys 2018 Congress:

  • ICNS 2018, The Fourteenth International Conference on Networking and Services
  • ICAS 2018, The Fourteenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
  • ENERGY 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies
  • WEB 2018, The Sixth International Conference on Building and Exploring Web Based Environments
  • DBKDA 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications
    • GraphSM 2018, The Fifth International Workshop on Large-scale Graph Analysis, Management and Applications
  • SIGNAL 2018, The Third International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing

Special tracks:

MPS: Power System State Estimation of Modern Power Systems
Chair and Coordinator: Hatim G. Abood, The University of Western Australia, Australia hatim.abood@research.uwa.edu.au

HPC4E: High Performance Computing for Energy
Chairs and Coordinators:
Dr. Rafael Mayo-García, CIEMAT, Spain rafael.mayo@ciemat.es
Dr. José Mª Cela, BSC-CNS, Spain josem.cela@bsc.es
Dr. Alvaro LGA Coutinho, COPPE-UFRJ, Brazil alvaro@coc.ufrj.br

AGR: Analytics for Smart Grids Reliability and Resiliency
Chairs and Coordinators:
PhD Candidate, Vivian Sultan, Center of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University, USA vivian.sultan@cgu.edu
Prof. Dr. Au Vo, San Francisco State University, USA auvo@sfsu.edu
Prof. Dr. Brian Hilton, Center of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University, USA brian.hilton@cgu.edu

DGFS: Distributed Generation and Frequency Support
Chairs and Coordinator: Associate Professor, Renato Procopio, University of Genoa, Italy renato.procopio@unige.it

ENERGY 2018 conference tracks:

Trends in energy fields

Redundancy of conventional energy measurements; Visualization for time power varying data; Power transient stability margins; Disturbance propagation in power systems; Short-term electrical load prediction; Monitoring residential settings; Solar and wind data analytics; Smart batteries; Controlled charging for e-mobility; Home energy predictions; Vehicle-to-grid scheduling; Electricity pricing models; Energy cluster formation; Green building energy analytics; Active power management; Pervasive energy services; Consumer behavior models; Energy saving; Appliance monitoring; User’s cognitive load; Energy consumption models for wearable/implantable devices; Microgrid and smartgrid management; Pricing for energy shared storage; Energy-efficient datacenters; Sustainable data centers; Emerging power markets; Energy-aware cooling and heating models; Flexible loads with dependencies; Electricity accessibility; Energy-efficient transportation; Solar-powered vehicles/drones; Plug-in hybrid vehicles; Shared energy models; Rechargeable energy-storage devices; Residential and industrial electrical loads

Fundamentals in Smart Grids

Architectures for Smart Grids; Smart Grids Modeling; Middleware for Smart Grids; Energy-efficient communication for Smart Grid infrastructures; Smart Grid Specific Protocols (DNP3, ICCP); Scalable infrastructures for Smart Grids; Service-oriented architectures for Smart Grids; Standards for Smart Grids; Implementation and projects on Smart Grids; Innovations on Smart Grids

Green communications

Energy-efficient communication protocols and power management; Green communications (energy efficient modulation, coding, resource allocation); Optimization of energy-efficient protocols/algorithms; Cross-layer optimization techniques for efficient energy consumption; Energy-efficient scheduling algorithms; Voltage and frequency scaled networks protocols; Energy-efficient transmission technologies; Energy-efficient protocols/algorithms in physical and IP layers; Energy-efficient radio resource management and routing; Hardware energy-efficiency systems; Virtualization techniques for energy efficiency; Simulation/modeling tools for energy efficient solutions;

Green computation

Energy-efficient service provisioning; Energy-efficient networking; Technology as Green Enablers (Grid, Cloud, Data Centers, Virtualization); Energy-efficient methodologies for infrastructure; Cooling/heating efficient energy; Power distribution; Green service life cycle;

Energy efficiency planning

Green performance metrics; Energy and performance profiling; Energy consumption and energy efficiency analysis; Energy demand prediction for appliances in industrial and home environments; Green certificates; Green maturity models

Energy-aware vehicular technologies

Alternative vehicular energy; Hybrid car energy and new battery technologies; Smart charging infrastructure; New forms of energy storage; Integration of electric vehicles and battery technology; Monitoring and sense-and-control of charging; Energy-aware vehicular sensor networks; Pricing models for charging stations, roaming across territories; Systems and computing for electric vehicle; Car energy optimization; Pricing models for charging stations

Smart Grids technologies

Sensors for Smart Grids; Wireless communications and networks for the Smart Grid last mile; Transport layer mechanisms for Smart Grids; IP interoperability in the Smart Grid; Multicast and secure multicast for the Smart Grids; Intelligent electronic devices (IED) for Smart Grids; Precision time synchronization protocols for the Smart Grids

Smart Grids Transmission Infrastructure

High Voltage DC (HVDC); Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS); Automatic Correction Substations;  Phasor Measurement Units (PMU); Optical Sensors (OS)

Smart Grids management and control

AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure); QoS, latency and reliability in Smart Grids; Security (including wireless, wire-line, broadband over power lines) in Smart Grids; Data aggregation, privacy considerations, and network data anonymization; Mobility issues in Smart Grids; Demand - response with dynamic pricing on a real-time in Smart Grids; Intelligent status monitoring in Smart Grids; Fault tolerance and disaster recovery in Smart Grids; Load balancing in Smart Grids; Dynamic discovery in Smart Grids

Software for Smart Grids

Management software for Smart Grids; End-User software application for Smart-grids; Firmware for Smart devices; Smart Grid modeling applications;

Smart Grids applications

Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Energy Management Systems (EMS); Demand Response Control; Meter Data Management System (MDMS); Home Area Networking (HAN) technologies with smart meters; Wind energy integration in Smart Grids; Disseminating power grid status information in Smart Grids; Solar, wind and energy storage integration in Smart Grids; Business issues for Smart Grids; Resilient operations against physical and cyber attacks, and natural disasters; Power quality operations in a digital economy; Anticipation and responses to system disturbances in a self-healing manner applications

Smart Grids and social infrastructure challenges

Utilities and transportation assets; Smart Grid efficiency, security and reliability; Smart Grids and renewable technologies; Enabling active participation by consumers; Accommodate all generation and storage options; Enable new products, services, and markets; Optimize asset utilization and operating efficiency; Legislation on Smart Grid

Advanced IT energy-aware technologies

Communications, sensors, wireless, mobility; Integration of consumer with utility's infrastructure; Automation, including billing and monitoring (smart meter integration); User interfaces (e.g., personal mobile devices); Appliance integration of smart appliances (communications interfaces, data formats); Integration of customer perception and response; Integration of solar technologies; Integration of wind mill technologies; Energy storage integration - battery, hydro, mechanical; Renewable energy - energy source integration models; Sensors use for energy management

Challenges in Smart Grids and IT-energy aware technologies

Scaling up; Cyber-infrastructure and cyber-security - technologies, models; Open-systems wireless and communications interface software; Security of information technology; Governments and corporation visions; Social perception and support; Standardizing approach


Deadlines:

Submission

Feb 07, 2018

Notification

Mar 11, 2018

Registration

Mar 24, 2018

Camera ready

Apr 03, 2018

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

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