[agents] CFP: Third International Workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2012)

[Alex Rogers]

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                  Third International Workshop on
          Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2012)

To be held in conjunction with the Eleventh International Conference
              on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
                              (AAMAS 2012)
  
                             Valencia, Spain
                              5th June 2012
  
                          http://www.ates2012.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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* 28th February 2012 - Submission of contributions to workshop
* 27th March 2012 - Workshop paper acceptance notification
* 10th April 2012 - Camera ready deadline
* 5th May 2012 - Workshop date


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 2012 conference formatting
instructions. For more details, see the workshop site for more details:
http://www.ates2012.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. Milind Tambe
Computer Science & Industrial and Systems Engineering Departments
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Email: tambe at usc.edu

Dr. Siddhartha Ghosh
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK
Email: sg2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk

Dr. Sachin Kamboj
College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Email: skamboj at udel.edu



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Dr. Alex Rogers
Agents, Interaction and Complexity  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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