CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Smart Grids for Smart Cities

13 – 14 October, 2015

Toronto, Canada

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

• The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of Smart Cities, ICT and e-Health and will be co-located with the Smart City 360 Summit.

• Participation in this event will give attendees the unique opportunity to be exposed to all technical scientific aspects of Smart City related topic areas at co-located conferences, as well as be able to have full access to the Smart City market place and business aspects in practice at the Smart City 360 Summit.

• All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world’s largest scientific libraries. Best papers will be invited to publish also in the  EAI Endorsed Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments.

Topics

The 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

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.

Publications

Accepted 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.

Important dates

Full Paper Submission deadline31 May 2015Notification deadline15 July 2015Camera-ready deadline15 August 2015Start of Conference13 October 2015End of Conference14 October 2015
Steering Committee Chair:

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

Lucia Mrazova, EAI Slovakia