[agents] CFP Demand Response Workshop at E-Energy 2014

[Sarvapali Ramchurn]

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			Call for Papers
							
	First International Workshop on Demand Response  
			
		    http://bit.ly/1iGkhTw
		
 Co-located with the ACM e-Energy 2014, June 10, 2014 – Cambridge, UK

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Demand Response [DR] programs along with the emergence of 
technology to support DR are known to be effective for enabling supply-
following loads. For example, DR programs are being used to reduce 
peak loads and to integrate renewable energy sources in electrical grids. 
DR can be defined as changes in resource consumption by end-use 
customers from their typical usage patterns, in response to DR signals 
(time-of-use pricing, incentives, penalties, etc.).
Research related to demand response and demand side management has 
addressed a suite of issues including differential pricing, incentive 
schemes, consumption profiling, and eco-feedback. Additionally, it is 
also important to understand factors such as weather, local events, 
consumer context, etc., that influence demand side participation. 
Understanding these factors is crucial to success of a DR program. This 
workshop will mainly focus on research and innovation results of demand 
side management, demand response techniques. Topics will not be 
confined to technical solutions only but also extend to evaluation studies, 
behavioral studies, socioeconomic analysis, etc.
The workshop invites original papers up to 6 pages in ACM double-
column format, which were not previously published and are not 
currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are 
not limited to:

•	Modeling residential, commercial, and industrial consumer behavior
•	Economic feasibility of demand response - test-beds and experiments
•	Security, Authentication and Privacy in DR
•	Artificial Intelligence for DR
•	DR Architectures
•	Dynamic Pricing Models
•	Evaluating performance of DR programs
•	DR and user comfort modeling
•	Infrastructure development to support demand side management
•	PHEV integration techniques for demand side management
•	Field trials of DR schemes
•	User interface design for DR
•	Congestion management and incentive mechanisms used in other  relevant domains (e.g., cellular, transportation, or networks)


Important Dates
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•	Paper submission: March 10, 2014
•	Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2014
•	Submission of camera- ready papers: May 9, 2014

Workshop Chairs
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•	Deva P. Seetharam, IBM Research, India
•	Dr. Sarvapali Ramchurn, University of Southampton, UK

Technical Programme Committee
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•	Muddasser Alam, Microsoft Research
•	Enrico Costanza, University of Southampton
•	Keith Decker, University of Delaware
•	Julian De Hoog, University of Melbourne
•	Joel Fischer, University of Nottingham
•	Tanuja Ganu, IBM Research
•	James Keirstead, Imperial College London
•	Wolfgang Ketter, Erasmus University of Rotterdam
•	Oliver Parson, University of Southampton
•	Alex Rogers, University of Southampton
•	George Stamoulis, AUEB
•	Jay Taneja, IBM Research
•	Matteo Vasirani, EPFL
•	Thomas Voice, University of Cambridge


Submission and publication of the work
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The workshop will be co-located with the ACM conference e-Energy 
2014, June 11-13 in Cambridge, UK. Manuscripts will be submitted via 
easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dr2014). 

We are currently in negotiations regarding the publication of 
the workshop papers. Submission implies the willingness of, at least, one 
author to register and present the paper at DR workshop. The organizers 
reserve the right to exclude a paper from publication if it is not presented. 
For more information please contact dseetharam at in.ibm.com or 
sdr1 at soton.ac.uk