The objective of this Special Section is to present and discuss the recent advances in the interdisciplinary research areas encompassing smart homes, smart grids and related technologies. This special section will bring together researchers from diverse fields and specializations, such as computer science, communications engineering, electrical and electronics engineering and specialists in areas related to smart homes and smart grids. In this special section, we invite researchers from academia, industry, and government to discuss challenging ideas, novel research contributions, demonstration results, and standardization efforts on the technologies for smart homes, smart grids and related areas.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Smart, Micro and Nano Grids Development
Safety and Power electronics in Smart, Micro and Nano Grids
Storage Systems and DGs integration for Smart, Micro and Nano Grids
Cyber Security, Big Data Analysis and Large Scale Data analytics for Smart Home and Smart Grids
Parallel/Distributed Algorithms Solutions for Smart Homes and Smart Grids
Demand Response, Management and Forecasting
Energy Brokering, Business Models, Prosumers Aggregation
Cloud and Fog Computing architectures and solutions
Internet of Things technologies and solutions for Smart Homes and Smart Grids
Agent-based and self-organizing solutions for Smart Homes and Smart Grids
May 16
2017
May 18
2017
Draft paper submission deadline
Draft Paper Acceptance Notification
Final Paper Deadline
Registration deadline
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