<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Note: The deadline has been EXTENDED to Oct 23, 2017. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">====================================================================</div><div class="">3rd International Workshop on AI for Smart Grids and Smart Buildings</div><div class="">(AISGSB18)</div><div class="">====================================================================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">February 2 or 3, 2018</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Held in conjunction with AAAI 2018</div><div class="">New Orleans, Louisiana, USA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/aisgsb18" class="">http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/aisgsb18</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">=====================================================================</div><div class="">Call for Papers</div><div class="">=====================================================================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Workshop Description and Motivation:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The availability of advanced sensing and communication infrastructures, </div><div class="">electric monitoring facilities, computational intelligence, widespread </div><div class="">use and interest in renewable energy sources, and customer-driven electricity </div><div class="">usage, storage and generation capabilities, have posed the foundations for a </div><div class="">robust and dynamic next generation economic interplay between the demand-side: </div><div class="">smart buildings, and the supply-side: smart power grids. Three key aspects </div><div class="">distinguish this evolving economy from more traditional market forces: </div><div class="">(1) Information: both energy producers and consumers have access to information </div><div class="">(e.g., production costs, customers’ electricity needs, time distribution of demands); </div><div class="">(2) Exchange: communication is possible on a continuous basis, thus enabling both </div><div class="">individual as well as group decision processes (e.g., producers and consumers can </div><div class="">negotiate prices and energy exchanges); (3) energy can be produced not only by power </div><div class="">plants, but also by customers (e.g., via solar panels) and stored for later use </div><div class="">(or redistributed through the electric grid), and (4) given all of the above, </div><div class="">customers can employ advanced tactical measures for improving building operations </div><div class="">and reducing energy consumption without sacrificing occupant satisfaction, which </div><div class="">has direct economic implications for producers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In general terms, a smart grid enables the distributed generation and two-directional </div><div class="">flow of electricity and information, within an integrated system of connected smart </div><div class="">buildings as key agents within this new ecosystem.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">AI plays a key role in the relationship between the smart grid and smart buildings. </div><div class="">New technologies offer infrastructure that provides information to support automated </div><div class="">decision making on how to (automatically) adapt production/consumption, optimize </div><div class="">costs, waste, and environmental impact, and provide reliability, safety, security, </div><div class="">and efficiency. Indeed, several research projects have already developed the view of </div><div class="">this ecosystem as a multi-agent system, where agents coordinate and negotiate to </div><div class="">achieve smart grid and smart building objectives.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from </div><div class="">diverse areas of AI to explore both established and novel applications of AI </div><div class="">techniques to address problems related to the design, implementation, deployment, </div><div class="">and maintenance of both smart buildings and the smart grid – either as independent </div><div class="">topics or together in an overarching multi-agent system. Topics include, but are </div><div class="">not limited to:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> * Distributed decision making and distributed optimization</div><div class=""> * Agents and multi-agent applications in smart grids</div><div class=""> * Data analytics and machine learning techniques applied to smart buildings, </div><div class=""> grids and energy management</div><div class=""> * Advanced machine learning techniques used to improve building maintenance </div><div class=""> and operations and reduce energy consumption without sacrificing occupant </div><div class=""> satisfaction</div><div class=""> * Novel information and sensing technologies that can be used to enable the </div><div class=""> deployment of advanced machine learning and data mining techniques within </div><div class=""> the built environment</div><div class=""> * Knowledge-based methods in design of smart buildings and smart grids</div><div class=""> * Coordination of intelligent agents in smart grids</div><div class=""> * Negotiation and trading strategies in energy markets </div><div class=""> * Human-computer interactions and human-in-the-loop systems within smart grids</div><div class=""> * Simulations of energy markets and smart grids</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Workshop Format:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The workshop is expected to be a full-day event. It will include three </div><div class="">components: </div><div class="">(1) one invited keynote speaker, selected among leading researchers </div><div class=""> exploring the advanced use of AI techniques to address practical </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>issues of smart grids and smart buildings; </div><div class="">(2) a collection of presentations selected from peer-reviewed submissions, </div><div class=""> in response to an open call for papers; (3) a closing panel, including </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>both invited panelist and workshop participants, to discuss future </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>directions of research in this field.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submission Guidelines:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Participants should submit a paper (maximum 7 pages + 1 page of references), </div><div class="">describing their work on one or more of the topics relevant to the workshop. </div><div class="">Accepted papers will be presented during the workshop and will be published </div><div class="">as AAAI technical reports, which will be made freely available in AAAI's digital </div><div class="">library. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Authors are requested to prepare their papers using the AAAI style files </div><div class="">(<a href="http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit.zip" class="">http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit.zip</a>). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All submissions are conducted via the following website: </div><div class=""><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisgsb2018" class="">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisgsb2018</a>. </div><div class="">Submissions should include the name(s), affiliations, and email addresses of </div><div class="">all authors in the body of the email. We welcome the submission of papers </div><div class="">rejected from the AAAI 2018 technical program. The deadline for receipt of </div><div class="">submissions is October 13, 2017. Papers received after this date may not be </div><div class="">reviewed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, </div><div class="">significance, and clarity. Each submission will be thoroughly reviewed by at </div><div class="">least two program committee members. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For questions about the submission process, contact the workshop co-chairs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Important Dates:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> * October 23, 2017 - EXTENDED Submission Deadline</div><div class=""> * November 9, 2017 - Acceptance Notification</div><div class=""> * November 21, 2017 - Camera-Ready Deadline</div><div class=""> * February 2 or 3, 2018 - Workshop Date </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Organizing Committee:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris Kiekintveld, University of Texas at El Paso</div><div class="">Rodney Martin, NASA Ames Research Center</div><div class="">Son Cao Tran, New Mexico State University</div><div class="">Long Tran-Thanh, University of Southampton</div><div class="">Mischa Schmidt, NEC Laboratories Europe</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Contact Information:</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:aisgsb2018@easychair.org" class="">aisgsb2018@easychair.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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