INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ENERGY 2014. The submission deadline is December 20, 2013. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== ENERGY 2014 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ENERGY 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies April 20 - 24, 2014 - Chamonix, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ENERGY14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPENERGY14.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitENERGY14.html Submission deadline: December 20, 2013 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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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 comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ENERGY 2014 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 ------------------------------ Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComENERGY14.html ENERGY Advisory Chairs Stefan Mozar, CCM Consulting / CQ University - Sydney International Centre, Australia Mardavij Roozbehani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Mark Apperley, University of Waikato, New Zealand Steffen Fries, Siemens, Germany ENERGY Industry Liaison Chairs Dave Cavalcanti, Philips Research North America, USA Marco Di Girolamo, Hewlett-Packard Company - Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy Dragan Obradovic, Siemens AG, Germany ENERGY Special Area Chairs on Nano-Grids Peter M�ller, IBM-Zurich, Switzeland 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 ================================================