| Subject: | [WI] CfP Workshop Multi-agent Based Applications for Sustainable Energy Systems (MASSES), 11th Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS), Salamanca (Spain), 22nd-24th May, 2013 |
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| Date: | Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:55:13 +0100 |
| From: | Rainer Unland <rainer.unland@icb.uni-due.de> |
| Organization: | University Duisburg-Essen |
| To: | undisclosed-recipients:; |
First Workshop on Multi-agent Based
Applications for Sustainable Energy Systems (MASSES)
as part of
11th Conference on Practical
Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS)
Salamanca (Spain), 22nd-24th May,
2013
Important dates
Submission date 17 December
Notification date 28 January
Paper ready deadline 25 February
Conference dates 22-24 May, 2013
Workshop motivation and topics
After
the explicit commitment of many countries to support the
installation and management of often small renewable energy
production sources the old energy grids need to be upgraded to
a much more intelligent and flexible grid, not only for
electricity but also for gas and heat. Such so called smart
grids most likely need to rely on decentralized control and a
highly efficient, fast, flexible and reliable management. This
requires smart grids to be capable of autonomously and
intelligently configuring themselves to make the most
efficient use of available resources, to be robust to all
kinds of failures and energy production deviations, and to be
extendable and adaptable in the face of rapidly changing
technologies and requirements. The distributed nature of these
systems, and the autonomous behaviour expected of them, points
towards multi-agent systems as a possible foundation for the
realisation of the management software for such grids. While a
lot has to happen on the energy production and provision level
the house of the future as well as the transportation means of
the future need to be smoothly integrated in such a smart grid
concept as well which means that houses need to be smart as
well. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on applications of
multi-agent systems technology in smart grids and smart homes.
Examples of areas of interest include,
but are not limited to, the following:
• Agent-based
prediction, adaption and optimization of energy use within
homes, buildings, organisations and micro-grids
• Multi-agent
based simulations of energy grids and markets
• Coalition
formation strategies for coordinated energy use across
multiple consumers, forming virtual power stations, and
performing intelligent demand management.
• Experiences
with MAS-based Smart Grid implementations
• Applications
of MAS-based Smart Grid technologies
• MAS-based
real time adaptation of energy networks
• MAS-based
self-configuration or self-healing of energy systems
• MAS-based
load modelling and control
• MAS-based
applications for electrical vehicles
• MAS-based
control and management of electrical car fleets
• Interactions
and exchange between networks for electricity, gas and heat
• MAS-based
smart home (building) applications and services
• MAS-based
control and management of smart homes
• MAS-based
control and management of appliances
• MAS-based
control and management of smart homes
• MAS-based
commercial and industrial applications for smart
homes
Structure of MASSES
MASSE will be a full-day workshop and
will include several presentation sessions for the accepted
paper as well as invited papers on topics of overall interest
in order to kick off intense and lively discussions. It is
intended to end the workshop with a panel/discussion round in
which the relevant results of the workshop will be discussed.
Review Process
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by
at least 3 Program Committee members. Selection criteria will
include: relevance, significance, impact, originality,
technical soundness, quality of presentation, practical
applicability. Some preference may also be given to papers
which address emergent trends or important common themes. In
general, papers to be acceptable, must be of substantial
relevance for the multi-agent systems research community.
Journal publication of excellent
papers
It is intended to invite authors of
excellent papers to submit an extended version of their paper
to either
the IOS Multiagent and Grid Systems
journal (MAGS). This journal has a high reputation and is
often classified as a B-class journal. If enough high quality
papers will be submitted it is planned to publish them as a
special issue, otherwise as regular papers;
or Springer's Transactions on
Computational Collective Intelligence. This new journal
focuses on research in applications of the computer-based
methods of Computational Collective Intelligence (CCI) and
their applications in a wide range of fields such as semantic
web, social networks and multi-agent systems.
Workshop organisers/PC Chairs
Giancarlo Fortino, University of
Calabria, Italy
Ryszard
Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Rainer
Unland (primary contact), University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany, Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de
Program Committee
t.b.c.
-- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW: http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ ***************************************************************************