[agents] CFP: Second International Workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2011)

[Alex Rogers]

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               Second International Workshop on

      Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2011)


 To be held in conjunction with the Tenth International Conference
        on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
                       (AAMAS 2011)

                      Taipei, Taiwan
                       2nd May 2011

                  http://www.ates2011.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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* 30th January 2011  - Submission of contributions to workshop
* 27th February 2011 - Workshop paper acceptance notification
* 10th March 2011     - 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 2011 conference formatting instructions. For more details, see the workshop site for more details: http://www.ates2011.org/.



Organsing 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. Keith Decker
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Delaware, Newark, USA
Email: decker at cis.udel.edu

Mr. Koen Kok
Energy Research Centre of The Netherlands (ECN)
The Netherlands
Email: j.kok at ecn.nl


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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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