[agents] SEN-MAS 2014 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

[Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS)]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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3rd International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent 
Systems (SEN-MAS 2014)

Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014

WWW: http://fedcsis.org/sen-mas
E-mail: sen-mas2014 at fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper 
to SEN-MAS 2014 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer 
Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014).

FedCSIS is an annual international multi-conference organized by the 
Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation 
with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section 
Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society 
Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM Lodz 
Chapter, International Federation for Information Processing, European 
Alliance for Innovation, Informatics Europe, IEEE-CIS Poland Section 
Chapter, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee of Computer 
Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business 
Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and 
Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and 
Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.

TOPICS
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The SEN-MAS'14 Workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting and 
discussing recent advances and experiences in building and using 
multi-agent systems for modelling, simulation and management of smart 
energy networks. In particular, it includes (but is not limited to) the 
following topics of interest:

- Eeriences of Smart Grid implementations by using MAS
- Applications of Smart Grid technologies
- Management of distributed generation and storage
- Islands Power Systems, Microgrid Applications
- Real time configurations of energy networks
- Distributed planning process for energy networks by using MAS
- Self-configuring or self-healing energy systems
- Load modelling and control with MAS
- Simulations of Smart Energy Networks
- Software Tools for Smart Energy Networks
- Energy Storage
- Electrical Vehicles
- Interactions and exchange between networks for electricity, gas and heat
- Stability in Energy Networks
- Distributed Optimization in Energy Networks

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by April 23, 2014 (strict deadline). 
Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the 
FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will 
be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. 
Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN 
numbers will posted at the conference WWW site.  Moreover, most Events' 
organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite 
selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications 
(information can be found at the websites of individual events).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: April 23, 2014 (strict deadline)
- Position paper submission: May 12, 2014
- Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014
- Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014
- Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Derksen, Christian, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Kowalczyk, Ryszard, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

STEERING COMMITTEE
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- Derksen, Christian, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Lehnhoff, Sebastian, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany
- Kowalczyk, Ryszard, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, 
Victoria, Australia
- Nahorski, Zbigniew, Systems Research Institute - Polish Academy of 
Science, Poland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Andrew, Lachlan
- Braubach, Lars, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Dillon, Tharam, Curtin University, Australia
- Elammari, Mohamed, University of Benghazi, Libya
- Franczyk, Bogdan, Universitat Leipzig, Germany
- Guttmann, Christian, Monash University, Australia
- Klusch, Matthias, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, 
DFKI, Germany
- Linnenberg, Tobias, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany
- Maamar, Zakaria, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
- Moench, Lars, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany
- Monti, Antonello
- Ossowski, Sascha, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Palensky, Peter
- Schmeck, Hartmut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
- Sonnenschein, Michael, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany
- Sudeikat, Jan, Hamburg Energie GmbH, Germany
- Tianfield, Huaglory, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom
- Unland, Rainer, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Wang, Shuliang
- Weber, Christoph
- Weidlich, Anke
- Werner, Andrej, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Wong, Dennis, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Malaysia