SMARTGREENS 2014 - 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS)

The purpose of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS) is to bring together researchers, designers, developers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of Smart Grids, Green Information and Communication Technologies, Sustainability, Energy Aware Systems and Technologies.
Green Computing is nowadays one of the major challenges for most IT organizations that involve medium and large scale distributed infrastructures like Grids, Clouds and Clusters. The conference will focus on solutions for all aspects of green computing such as energy efficiency, carbon footprint reduction and cooling management. The tradeoffs between energy efficiency and performance have become key challenges that must be addressed in both, distributed and traditional performance-oriented infrastructures. Particularly relevant is the so-called Smart Grid technology, seeking to optimize distributed electricity generation, especially from renewable sources, and to promote the use of smart devices (including smart home and new vehicular energy approaches) that require further research on distributed communications, energy storage and integrations of various sources of energy.
Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of SMARTGREENS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the SMARTGREENS conference website.
CONFERENCE AREAS
Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:
1. SMART GRIDS
2. ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES
3. SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS
4. SMART CITIES
AREA 1: SMART GRIDS
Real-Time Systems
Architectures for Smart Grids
Smart Grids Modeling
Smart Grid Specific Protocols
Scalable Infrastructures for Smart Grids
Load Balancing in Smart Grids
Smart Grid Security and Reliability
Smart Grids and Renewable Technologies
Sensors for Smart Grids
Fault Tolerance and Disaster Recovery in Smart Grids
Integration of Smart Appliances
Interoperability and strategies to meet communications demands
Real time analytics and self-healing grid capability
Smart Homes (Domotics)
AREA 2: ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption
Economic Models of Energy Efficiency
Greener Systems Planning and Design
Energy Monitoring
Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption
Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies
Energy Profiling and Measurement
Renewable Energy Resources
Embedded Sensor Networks
Energy Management Systems (EMS)
Driving innovation in energy storage
Virtual Power Plants
Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications
AREA 3: SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Green Data Centers
Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat
Qos and Green Computing
Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools
Virtualization Impact for Green Computing
Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms
Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks
Energy Efficient Network Hardware
Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols
Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications
Educational Ecosystems
Ecological monitoring, analytics and visualization
Low power wireless communication technologies
AREA 4: SMART CITIES
User-Centred and Participatory Design of Services and Systems for Smart Cities
Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments
Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services
Mechanisms for Motivating Behaviour Change
Service Innovation and Design to Support Smart Cities
Cloud Computing and Service Models for Smart City Solutions
e-Work and e-Business Applications
Planning and Design Challenges for Smart Cities
Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management
Smart Sensor-Based Networks and Applications
IS Architecture Designs and Platforms for Smart Cities
Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Smart(er) Cities
Integrating renewable energy sources into the smart cities grid
Harvesting energy with customer participation
Microgeneration