STEIC 2012 - The 1st International Workshop on Smart Technologies for Energy, Information and Communication (STEIC2012)

Call for Papers
The 1st International Workshop on Smart Technologies for Energy,
Information and Communication (STEIC2012)
October 18-19, 2012 -- Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
The recent Information and Communication technologies have
produced high-performance information devices and systems. They
are essential in supporting the economic development of human
society as well as people’s daily life and work. According to
the sophistication of various equipments and systems, their power
consumption had been increased. Recently, the world population
exceeded 7.0 billion and the energy consumption tends to
increase. To build sustainable society, which coexist with the
global environment, it becomes an important and pressing problem
to create new technologies, so-called smart technologies by which
various information and knowledge are applied to and/or utilized
in the design and development of the intelligent, resilient,
ecological artifact and services.
Aim of STEIC2012 is to explore and discuss about present and
future of the smart technologies and their applications from a
viewpoint of energy, information and communication. The workshop
seeks contributions presenting novel research in all aspects of
smart technologies, as well as systems, software and hardware
solutions dealing with applications of smart technologies.
We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical
results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific
proposals, survey papers addressing the key problems and
solutions, and short papers on work in progress. The topics
suggested by the workshop can be discussed in term of concepts,
state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running
experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. All
topics and submission formats are open to both research and
industry contributions.
KEY WORDS
[Energy] Energy systems, Electric power systems, Renewable Energy
systems, Energy Economics & Policy, Smartgrids, Microgrids, Smart
home, Cyber security in energy systems, Energy management system,
Smart devices, Sustainable computing, Green computing, etc.
[Information] Cooperative Distributed computing, Web computing,
Autonomic computing, Cloud computing, Web Intelligence,
Knowledge-based systems, Agent/Multiagent systems, Autonomic and
Autonomous systems, Dependable systems, Software and algorithm
for intelligent applications, etc.
[Communication] Architecture and model for communication and
networking, Dependable networking and services, Social
networking, Ubiquitous networks, Sensor networks, Service
continuity management, Network middleware, Human Interfaces, etc.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AUTHORS
Important deadlines:
Submission (full paper): June 30, 2012 (extended)
Notification: July 30, 2012
Registration: August 20, 2012
Camera ready: August 20, 2012
Only .pdf files will be accepted for paper submission. All
received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated
system. Please visit paper submission site
(http://steic.k.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/paper-submission/).
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit the extended
versions to the International Journal on Energy, Information and
Communication (http://www.sersc.org/journals/IJEIC/).
ORGANIZATION
General Co-chairs
Tetsuo Kinoshita (Tohoku University, Japan)
Hak-Man Kim (University of Incheon, Korea)
Program Co-chairs
Gen Kitagata (Tohoku University, Japan)
Yujin Lim (University of Suwon, Korea)
Publication Chair
Kazuto Sasai (Tohoku University, Japan)
Local Arrangement Chair
Hideyuki Takahashi (Tohoku University, Japan)
Program committee ( Tentative)
D. Datta (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India)
Behrouz Far (University of Calgary, Canada)
Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Italy)
Goutam Chakraborty (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan)
Norihiro Ishikawa (Komazawa University, Japan)
Byeong-Ho Kang (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Sanggil Kang (Inha University, Korea)
Eunseok Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
Yoshiyuki Mihara (NTT, Japan)
Hiroshi Mineno (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Yasuo Okabe (Kyoto University, Japan)
Sunju Park (Yonsei University, Korea)
Igarashi Ryuji (Akita University, Japan)
Kenji Sugawara (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)
Takahiro Uchiya (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Zita A. Vale (Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal)