[Telecentres] Deadline Extension: ENERGY 2013 || March 24 - 29, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

[Cristina Pascual]

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the 
following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ENERGY 
2013.

The submission deadline is extended to November 12, 2012.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to 
one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

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============== ENERGY 2013 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ENERGY 2013, The Third International Conference on Smart Grids, Green 
Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies

March 24 - 29, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ENERGY13.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/CfPENERGY13.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/SubmitENERGY13.html


Submission deadline: November 12, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:  
http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: 
http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: 
http://www.thinkmind.org


Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state 
of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, 
applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete 
unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal 
in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of 
Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business 
presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: 
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


ENERGY 2013 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


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

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ComENERGY13.html
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