June 10th, 2015 
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2nd CALL FOR PAPERSInternational Conference on Smart Grids for Smart Cities 13 – 14 October, 2015 Toronto, Canada |
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| DEADLINE EXTENDED: Submit your research paper until June 30, 2015!
Scope The SGSC conference focuses on utilizing new ideas and technologies in the field of smart grid to make our urban environment more sustainable, increasing quality of life and efficiency of urban infrastructure, operation, services, and competitiveness while meeting the needs of present and future generations with respect to economic, social and environmental aspects in smart cities. This year, SGSC 2015 will be collocated with Smart City 360 Summit 2015 at Toronto, Canada, during October 13-16, and dedicated to the role of energy innovations in urban environment, and research and development on sustainable smart city ecosystems. Latest outcome of these enabling technologies will offer new opportunities for policy-makers, research institutes and business to learn, share, and collect experience and best smart grid practices to plan and operate sustainable urban communities. Scientific results, design concepts, new solutions, new smart grid applications, and case studies will be presented. Highlights
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TopicsThe focus in this conference is on the smart grid development challenges in urban environments to address smart grid and energy issues that arise more often (or in a more challenging way) in smart cities. Accordingly, topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: 1. City wide Smart Grid Testbeds and Field-Trials 2. Smart Grid and Urban Transportation 3. Smart Grid and Urban Water and Waste Water Infrastructure 4. Smart Grid and Urban Communication Infrastructure 5. Smart Grid and Urban and Community Planning 6. Smart Grid and Urban Emergency and Disaster Recovery 7. Smart Grid and Security and Privacy Challenges 8. Renewable Power Generation in Urban Environments 9. Smart Grid Co-Simulation for Smart City Development Program The SGSC 2015 conference will include multiple keynote talks from leading experts in industry and academia. The organizing committee is pleased to announced that John D. McDonald has confirmed as the first keynote speaker. John D. McDonald, P.E., is Director, Technical Strategy and Policy Development for General Electric (GE) Energy – Digital Energy. He is a Past President of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), a Fellow of IEEE, Chair of the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) Board, charter member of the IEEE Brand Ambassadors Program, member of the IEEE Medal of Honor Committee, member of the IEEE PES Region 3 Scholarship Committee, and VP for Technical Activities for the US National Committee (USNC) of CIGRE. Paper Submission All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages.The papers should be formatted according to the Springer Author Guidelines (Word or Latex). The submissions should be made through the Confy system. All the submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least three expert reviewers. Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Detailed instructions for manuscript preparation and submission are available on the conference page. PublicationsAccepted papers will be published in one of the Springer’s seriesand will appear in the SpringerLink – one of the largest digital online libraries which covers a myriad of scientific disciplines. In addition, the accepted papers will be available in EU digital library (EUDL) and indexed in Scopus and EI as well as submitted for indexing in ISI Proceedings. The confirmation on additional proceedings publisher is pending. Selected papers will be given a possibility to be extended for a journal publication. Find out more about SMART CITY 360° SUMMIT, of which SGSC 2015 is part of. |
Important datesFull Paper Submission deadline30 June 2015Notification deadline1 August 2015Camera-ready deadline15 August 2015Start of Conference13 October 2015End of Conference14 October 2015 Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy General Chair: Deepa Kundur, University of Toronto Program Chair: Hamed Mohsenian-Rad, University of California Riverside Program Co-chairs: Yonghui Li, University of Sydney, Australia Hao Liang, University of Alberta, Canada Islam Safak Bayram, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Javad Lavaei, Columbia University, USA Chris Develder, Ghent University, Belgium Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China Chen-Ching Liu, Washington State University, USA TPC Members: Masoud Abbaszadeh, General Electric Global Research Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Stanford University Chen Chen, Argonne National Laboratory Guo Chen, University of Sydney Dae-Hyun Choi, Chung-Ang University Ruilong Deng, Nanyang Technological University Darish Fooladivanda, University of Toronto Nikolaos Gatsis, University of Texas at San Antonio Wibowo Hardjawana, University of Sydney Miao He, Texas Tech University Muhammad Ismail, Texas A&M University at Qatar Melike Erol Kantarci, Clarkson University Jang-Won Lee, Yonsei University Jin Ma, University of Sydney Angelos Marnerides, Liverpool John Moores University Seyedbehzad Nabavi, North Carolina State University HyungSeon Oh, University of New York at Buffalo Yuexing Peng, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications Shaolei Ren, Florida International University Petros Spachos, University of Toronto Himal A Suraweera, University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka Gregor Verbic, University of Sydney Chenye Wu, University of California, Berkeley Yunjian Xu, Singapore University of Technology and Design Qinmin Yang, Zhejiang University Vahraz Zamani, University of California San Diego Saman Aliari Zonouz, Rutgers University Conference Manager: Lucia Mrazova, EAI Slovakia |
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