[afnog] Last two weeks | ENERGY 2011 || May 22-27, 2011 - Venice, Italy

[Alejandro Canovas]

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Note that the submission deadline has been extended to January 25.
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============== ENERGY 2011 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ENERGY 2011: The First International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies
May 22-27, 2011 - Venice, Italy

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/ENERGY11.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CfPENERGY11.html

Submission deadline: January 25, 2011

Technical Co-Sponsors:
- IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
- Microsoft Israel R&D Center

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

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

Please note the Poster Forum 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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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 2011 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

ENERGY Advisory Chairs
Stefan Mozar, CCM Consulting / CQ University - Sydney International Centre, Australia
Mehrdad (Mark) Ehsani, Texas A&M University - College Station, USA
Petre Dini, Concordia university, Canada / China Space Agency Center, China
Mardavij Roozbehani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

ENERGY Industry Liaison Chairs
Dave Cavalcanti, Philips Research North America, USA
Marco Di Girolamo, Hewlett-Packard Company - Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy
Thomas M. Overman, Boeing Energy Cyber Security, USA
Angelantonio Gnazzo, Telecom Italia - Torino, Italy
Dragan Obradovic, Siemens AG, Germany
Avi Mendelson, Microsoft Corporation, USA

ENERGY Special Area Chairs on Nano-Grids
Peter Mueller, IBM-Zurich, Switzeland

ENERGY Special Area Chairs on Efficient Energy Consumption
Giorgio Nunzi, NEC Europe Ltd. - London, UK

ENERGY Special Area Chairs on Smart Grids
Ritwik Majumder, ABB AB / Corporate Research Center - Vasteras, Sweden

ENERGY Special Area Chairs on IT-energy- aware, Planning
Brian P. Gaucher, IBM Research Division - Yorktown Heights, USA

ENERGY Special Area Chairs on Grid, Green Communication
Gargi Bag, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
Ken Christensen, University of South Florida, USA


ENERGY Special Area Chairs on Vehicular
Grzegorz Swirszcz, IBM Watson Laboratory, USA

ENERGY Publicity Chairs
Luciano Bertini, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
Cathryn Peoples, University of Ulster, UK

Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/ComENERGY11.html
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Alejandro Cánovas Solbes
IARIA Publicity Board