SMARTGREENS 2012 - 1st International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS)

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Deadline: January 10, 2012 | Date: April 18, 2012-April 21, 2012

Venue/Country: Porto, Portugal

Updated: 2011-10-15 15:26:23 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Green Computing is nowadays one of the major challenges for most IT organizations that involve medium and large scale distributed infrastructures like Grids, Clouds and Clusters. The conference will focus on solutions for all aspects of green computing such as energy efficiency, carbon footprint reduction and cooling management. The tradeoffs between energy efficiency and performance have become key challenges that must be addressed in both, distributed and traditional performance-oriented infrastructures. Particularly relevant is the so-called Smart Grid technology, seeking to optimize distributed electricity generation, especially from renewable sources, and to promote the use of smart devices (including smart home and new vehicular energy approaches) that require further research on distributed communications, energy storage and integrations of various sources of energy.

Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of SMARTGREENS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the SMARTGREENS conference website.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. SMART GRIDS

2. ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES

3. SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS

AREA 1: SMART GRIDS

Architectures for Smart Grids

Smart Grids Modeling

Smart Grid Specific Protocols

Scalable Infrastructures for Smart Grids

Standards for Smart Grids

Load Balancing in Smart Grids

Smart Grid Security and Reliability

Smart Grids and Renewable Technologies

Sensors for Smart Grids

Real-Time Systems

Fault Tolerance and Disaster Recovery in Smart Grids

Integration of Smart Appliances

Smart Cities

Smart Homes (Domotics)

AREA 2: ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption

Economic Models of Energy Efficiency

Greener Systems Planning and Design

Energy-Efficient Transmission Technologies

Energy Monitoring

Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption

Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies

Performance Evaluation of Green Computing Systems

Energy Profiling and Measurement

Renewable Energy Resources

Embedded Sensor Networks

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Energy Management Systems (EMS)

AREA 3: SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat

Qos and Green Computing

Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools

Virtualization Impact for Green Computing

Pervasive Computing for Energy Efficiency

Green Data Centers

Green Architectures for Grids, Clouds and Clusters

Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms

Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks

Sustainable Wireless Communication

Energy Efficient Network Hardware

Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols

Teleworking and Remote Collaboration

Education on Green Computing and Communications

Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

SMARTGREENS 2012 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.

The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:

1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.

LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.

2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:

Regular Paper Submission

A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission

A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:

After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. Authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).

SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 18 - 21 April, 2012

Regular Paper Submission: January 10, 2012

Authors Notification (regular papers): February 17, 2012

Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: March 1, 2012

SECRETARIAT

SMARTGREENS Secretariat

Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.

2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal

Tel.: +351 265 520 184

Fax: +44 203 357 3118

e-mail: smartgreens.secretariatinsticc.org

Web: http://www.smartgreens.org

VENUE

Overlooking the Douro River, Porto is one of the most ancient European cities, It was born and developed from the northern bank of this river during the Middle Ages. One of the most significant aspects of Porto and its historical centre is its landscape, combining harmony with the urban structure and presenting a frame of rare beauty. The city was classified as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1996. When discovering Porto, you will find many surprises. Besides its welcoming and conservative environment, Porto is also contemporary and artistic. This is shown not only in the streets, architecture, monuments and museums but also in the terraces, restaurants and leisure and shopping areas.