WSGDS 2013 - Workshop on Smart Grid as a Distributed System -- Modelling, Analysis and Optimization Methods

The smart grid will be a complex distributed and networked system, collecting production and usage data, controlling energy flows, representing network components as resources, administering and connecting those resources by communication networks. The workshop objective is to identify new challenges posed by the application area of smart grids and to use or extend networked systems methodologies to solve those problems.
Authors are invited to submit work on issues related to, but not limited by, the following list of topics:
Monitoring, Data acquisition and Online Processing
sensors and real-time measurement methods (spatial, temporal, semantical)
state monitoring
smart metering
feature extraction
data fusion and aggregation
data representation
provisioning of measurement and control data
Communication Architectures and Protocols
modulation and coding schemes (e.g. OFDM, LDLC, ...)
transmission methods (e.g. PLC, optical, electric, wireless, ...)
network infrastructures (home, enterprise, access and core)
real-time communication protocols
interfaces and standards (e.g. home gateway)
Control methods
fault detection and localization
alarm detection
fault recovery, restoration, resilience
network stability
network organization (hierarchical, centralized, decentralized)
self-organization
remote control of devices
Security and Privacy
network and data security
encryption methods and key management
privacy
trust
cyber security
desaster protection and management
Analysis and Performance Evaluation
measurement and control data traffic and modeling
analysis of real-time behavior and capabilities
quality of service
mathematical modelling and simulation
model-based control methods
reliability analysis
optimization methods
Workshop Organization
Paul J. Kühn (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Hermann de Meer (University of Passau, Germany)