Call for Papers

Special Issue of International Journal

Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering

(founded in 1993)

 
 

on

Multi-agent Systems for Energy Management


Guest Editors: Francesco Amigoni, Maria Gini, and Wolfgang Ketter

francesco.amigoni@polimi.it, gini@cs.umn.edu, wketter@rsm.nl

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Software agents are inherently distributed systems that offer a convenient way of modeling processes that are distributed over space and time.  The combination of distributed and coordinated autonomy makes agent-based systems well-suited for a wide variety of problems in energy  management. Areas of interest for the special issue cover the full spectrum of agent-related topics applied to energy management. All aspects of energy management, from energy production to transport and distribution networks, to fault tolerance, to price modeling for energy prices are of interest. Papers are solicited specifically in the following areas:

  1. ‣agents for supporting production, transport, and distribution of energy,

  2. ‣agents for energy management of data centers, office buildings, homes, spacecrafts, sensor networks, etc.,

  3. ‣agents for real-time management of the power grid,

  4. ‣agent-based price modeling for energy sources,

  5. ‣fault management of electricity transport networks,

  6. ‣agents for software for energy management systems.

Innovative  ideas, theoretical results, field based studies, and experimental results in real applications are of interest. Both practical and theoretical work is welcome.

NEWS

August 27, 2009: Important dates added.

August 24, 2009: Call for Papers published.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

ICAE is a scholarly research journal with a primary focus on novel computational modeling. Authors are invited to contact the Guest Editors and indicate their intent to submit a paper for possible publication in the special issue as soon as possible. All papers will be peer-reviewed for originality by at least 3 referees on the journal's standard review form. Submission of a manuscript implies that it is the authors’ original unpublished work and the manuscript or any variation of it has not submitted for publication elsewhere previously. Instruction for authors are available at: http://www.iospress.nl/html/10692509_ita.html. Please email the pdf file of your original manuscript by October 30, 2009 to Guest Editors and the Editor-in-Chief, Hojjat Adeli, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, The Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA, email: Adeli.1@osu.edu.


Guest Editors:


Francesco Amigoni

Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
e-mail: francesco.amigoni@polimi.it


Maria Gini

Dept, of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis MN 55455, USA
e-mail: gini@cs.umn.edu


Wolfgang Ketter

Department of Decision and Information Sciences, RSM Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
e-mail: wketter@rsm.nl

A complimentary sample copy of the journal can be requested from the Dutch publisher of the journal: IOS Press, Nieuwe Hemweg 6B, 1013 BG Amsterdam, The Netherlands (www.iospress.nl). Fax in The Netherlands: 31-20-620 3419, fax in USA: 1-703-323 3668.

IMPORTANT DATES


October 30, 2009: submission deadline!


January 15, 2010: first notification to the authors.


February 28, 2010: submission of revised papers.


April 15, 2010: final decision.


few months later: publication of the special issue.