IJCNDS 2011 - Special Issue on: Context-Aware System and Intelligent Middleware for Smart Grid International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS)

Special Issue on: Context-Aware System and Intelligent Middleware for Smart
Grid International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
(IJCNDS)

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journ...

Due to shortage of energy resources, the "smart grid" technology has been
promoted rapidly as a solution to solve issues of energy depletion, limited
natural resources and global warming. These "smart grids" aim to provide
electricity to end-users through a two-way digital technology that control
end-users' devices to save power in a much more easy and simple way. That is,
end-users will be able to allow the smart grid to remotely control all
selected devices in their home conveniently and easily in accordance with
tracks of all electricity flowing in monitoring systems. To realize the
technology’s advantages, appropriate and novel middlewares, architectures and
applications are required to construct a smart grid. In view of this, this
special issue aims to seek original research papers and review articles and
expects to enhance the state of the art in context-aware systems and
intelligent middlewares to solve the various problems and challenges in
designing a smart grid. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to
following:
? Context-aware monitoring systems for smart grid
? Intelligent agents in smart grid
? Context-aware heterogeneous smart grid systems
? Intelligent control systems for optimization of management for smart
grid
? Intelligent middleware for integration of devices for smart grid
? Middleware-based development of applications and services for smart
grid
? Other context-aware system and intelligent middleware for smart grid

Tentative Schedule:
Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2011
Submission of final revised paper: June 15 2011
Publication date: TBD by EiC

Guest Editors:

Dr. Der-Jiunn Deng (Corresponding Editor)
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan,
Email: djdeng-AT-cc.ncue.edu.tw

Dr. Chin-Feng Lai
Institute of Computer Science & Information Engineering
National Ilan University, I-Lan, Taiwan
Email: cinfon-AT-ieee.org