[agents] First International Workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2010)

[Alex Rogers]

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               First International Workshop on

      Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2010)


 To be held in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference
        on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
                       (AAMAS 2010)

                     Toronto, Canada
                     10/11th May 2010

                  http://www.ates2010.org

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Meeting the challenge of mitigating the worst effects of global 
climate change, and ensuring energy security in the face of dwindling 
oil and gas reserves, requires a radical change in the way in which
energy (and particularly electricity) is generated, distributed 
and consumed.

Addressing this challenge requires future energy systems (such as the 
smart grid) to be capable of autonomously and intelligently configuring
themselves to make the most efficient use of available resources, to be 
robust to the cascading failures that plague current networks, and to be 
extendable and adaptable in the face of rapidly changing technologies and 
requirements.

The distributed nature of these systems, and the autonomous behaviour 
expected of them, naturally lend themselves to a multi-agent methodology. 
Thus, the goals of this workshop are to explore and develop the application
of agent technologies within such future energy systems, to attract 
researchers to this exciting and important application domain, and to 
provide a forum where domain experts and agent researchers can meet and 
exchange ideas.

Examples of areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

 - Methodologies to predict and optimise of energy use within homes, 
   buildings, organisations and micro-grids.

 - Multi-agent simulation of energy markets, energy grids and consumers.

 - Novel energy markets and trading strategies.

 - Coalition formation strategies for coordinated energy use across 
   multiple consumers, forming virtual power stations, and performing 
   intelligent demand management.

 - Agent/human interaction for energy preference elicitation and efficiency 
   feedback.

 - Agent-based software development for deploying distributed control across 
   energy networks.



Important dates
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* 2nd February 2010 - Submission of contributions to workshop
* 2nd March 2010    - Workshop paper acceptance notification
* 12th March 2010   - Camera ready deadline



Submission
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The workshop welcomes submissions of contributions that describe innovative 
work and results in this area (maximum 8 pages). In addition, position papers 
and brief overviews of ongoing projects are encouraged (maximum 2 pages).

All submissions should conform to the AAMAS 2010 conference formatting instructions.
For more details, see the workshop site for more details: http://www.ates2010.org/.



Organising Committee
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Dr. Alex Rogers
School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton, UK
Email: acr at ecs.soton.ac.uk

Prof. Stephen McArthur
Institute for Energy and Environment
University of Strathclyde, UK
Email: s.mcarthur at eee.strath.ac.uk

Dr. Ying Guo
Autonomous Systems Lab
CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Email: ying.guo at csiro.au




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Dr. Alex Rogers
Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
Electronics & Computer Science
University of Southampton
Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
Web: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/acr/
Email : acr at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone : +44 (0) 23 8059 9008
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