[agents] CFP: Workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2013), at AAMAS 2013

[Siddhartha]

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*Call for Papers*

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        Fourth International Workshop on

   Agent Technologies for Energy Systems (ATES 2013)

To be held in conjunction with the Twelfth International

Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems

                     (AAMAS 2013)

                   Minnesota, USA

                  6th May 2012

http://www.ates2013.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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* 8th February 2013 - Submission of contributions to workshop

* 8th March 2013- Workshop paper acceptance notification

* 15th March 2013- 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 2013 conference formatting 
instructions. For more details, see the workshop site for more details: 
http://www.ates2013.org/.

Organsing Committee

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Dr. Siddhartha Ghosh

University of Southampton, UK

Email: sg2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:sg2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>

Dr. Alex Rogers

University of Southampton, UK

Email: acr at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:acr at ecs.soton.ac.uk>__

Dr. Wolf Ketter

University of Rotterdam, Netherlands

Email: wketter at rsm.nl <mailto:tambe at usc.edu>__

Dr. Peter Stone

University of Texas at Austin, USA

Email: pstone at cs.utexas.edu <mailto:tambe at usc.edu>__