CFP special issue on Multi-agent Systems for Energy Management

[gini at cs.umn.edu]

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  CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
  INTEGRATED COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING
  (Founded in 1993)
  on
  Multi-agent Systems for Energy Management

  http://home.dei.polimi.it/amigoni/research/ICAE-MASfEM.html
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Guest Editors: Francesco Amigoni, Maria Gini, and Wolfgang Ketter
francesco.amigoni at polimi.it, gini at cs.umn.edu, wketter at 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:

* agents for supporting production, transport, and distribution of energy
* agents for energy management of data centers, office buildings, homes, 
  spacecrafts, sensor networks, etc.
* agents for real-time management of the power grid
* agent-based price modeling for energy sources
* fault management of electricity transport networks
* 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.


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unpublished work and the manuscript or any variation of it has not been
submitted for publication elsewhere previously.

Please email the pdf file of your original manuscript by 
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to the 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 at osu.edu.


Francesco Amigoni 
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano 
via Ponzio 34/5, 20133 Milano, Italy
e-mail: francesco.amigoni at polimi.it

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

Wolfgang Ketter 
RSM Erasmus University, Department of Decision and Information Sciences 
P.O. Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands 
e-mail: wketter at 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 Netherlands: 
31-20-620 3419, Fax in U.S.A.: 1-703-323 3668).