SGR 2015 - 1st SmartGrid Resilience Workshop

The provision of holistic resilience schemes to critical infrastructures such as the SG has recently considered a reasonable level of attention by official governmental bodies worldwide (e.g. NIST, US Dept. of Homeland Security, EU SmartGrid Task Force, EU ENISA) given recent environmental hazards and natural disasters as well as terrorist attacks that caused a great extend of damages to a number of US, EU and Asian power-grid infrastructures. Despite the surge of interest in specific resilience sub-domains such as cyber-physical security, there have not yet been any active directions towards the composition of holistic resilience schemes.
Hence, the aim of the proposed workshop is to bring together researchers working in the broad area of resilience in Smart Grids (SGs). Resilience is defined as the ability of the SG to provide an acceptable level of service to the end consumer in the face of various challenges. Hence, the domain of resilience covers a range of issues related with the defense, detection, diagnosis and remediation of challenges initiated in the cyber and power infrastructure of the SG as well as with its recovery and refinement. The focus of the workshop will be on communication, networking and system-oriented techniques that tackle challenges initiated on the various networked components composing the communication infrastructure of the SG that directly affect the high-level functions of the demand-response (DR) model, smart metering, electric vehicles (i.e. automated (dis)-charging based on dynamic pricing signals), outage management, distributed energy resources and cyber-security. Given the diversity of heterogeneous environments (e.g. sensor networks, HAN networks, Advanced Metering Infrastructure) integrated in modern SG deployments, the emerging technologies incorporated in each as well as external factors (e.g. environmental conditions) there is still a challenging gap regarding the composition of holistic resilience schemes. Therefore, the proposed workshop, where researchers working on emerging problems on different sectors of the SG share their latest results, formulate new problems from both communication, networking and data analytics perspectives, and create awareness about their practical significance with respect to the overall resilience of the SG, is therefore of great significance.
Topics: Topics of interest include (but not limited to): disaster-aware resilience solutions for the SG, SG anomaly detection and remediation, SG analytics, SG resilience architectures, SG resilience control systems, SG cyber-security, instrumentation of resilience policies for outage management, optimization techniques for the communication infrastructure for ensuring sustainability, recovery and resilience, cloud-based resilience solutions, test-beds for the analysis, design and validation of resilience in the SG communication infrastructure. Both theoretical and experimental contributions will be solicited.