IEEE SmartGridComm Symposium on

The Whole Picture:

Sense, Communicate, Compute, Control

 

Symposium Co-Chairs
Giuseppe Caire University of Southern California, USA	Nicholas Jenkins Cardiff University, UK	Mark McGranaghan Electric Power Research Institute, USA
Mardavij Roozbehani Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA	Pravin Varaiya University of California Berkeley, USA

Scope and Motivation

In favor of various environmental and economic factors, a smart grid accommodates demand response, large-scale integration of renewable energy sources, distributed generation, PHEVs and storage. The immediate consequences are two-fold: increased uncertainty and increased complexity. How should the current system and market operation paradigms change to facilitate incorporation of all these elements with heterogeneous characteristics? How can we take advantage of communication and information technology to develop sophisticated control and optimization techniques with reasonable computational complexity to mitigate the effects of the induced uncertainties?

Topics of Particular Interest

This symposium invites prospective authors to submit papers that address the aforementioned issues in their generality or in one of the specific contexts listed below:

1. Networked Control Systems In Smart Grids: Theory, Application, and Practical Issues
2. Distributed control under communication constraints
3. Computational Complexity and Uncertainty Trade-offs in Smarts Grids
4. Distributed Control and Optimization for control and coordination within and across microgrids.
5. Value of Information: What information should be collected, to whom it should be provided, how timely, and at what rate?
6. Stochastic Control and Optimization for a Probabilistic Framework for Transmission and Distribution System Operation
7. Low Complexity Control and Communication for Energy Efficient Building Operation and Management.
8. Market mechanisms to facilitate integration of the renewables, defining reliability, and pricing reliability
9. Distributed sensing, communication, and control for prediction and prevention of cascade failures
10. Statistical techniques in analysis of cascaded failures in large interconnected systems.
11. Migration Path to a Smart Grid
    1. Technical Path
    2. Commercial Path
    3. Socioeconomic Objectives and Trade-offs
    4. Planned versus Evolutionary Design
12. Cognition
13. Self-Organization
14. Risk Assessment and Management

Submission Guidelines

Submission deadlines and format requirements are the same for all symposia, see here

Papers can be submitted here

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Members

Massoud Amin, University of Minnesota, USA
Michael Chertkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Marco Chiani, University of Bologna, Italy
Howard Choe, Raytheon, USA
Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain
Janaka Ekanayake, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Nicola Elia, Iowa State University, USA
Tomaso Erseghe, University of Padova, Italy, Italy
Cecilia Galarza, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pavithra Harsha, MIT, USA
Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA
Robert Heath, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kiseon Kim, GIST - Gwangju, Republic of Korea, Korea
Angel Lozano, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain
Dragan Obradovic, Siemens, Germany
Kameshwar Poolla, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Sekhar Tatikonda, Yale University, USA
Daniela Tuninetti, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Han Vinck, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy