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Dear DACH+ Energy Informatics Community,<br>
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<p> Please find attached the updated Call for
Papers for this year’s edition of the DACH+
Conference on Energy Informatics, taking place
during 13-17 September 2021 **ONLINE**. You
can also find the text below and under <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://energy-informatics2021.org/call-for-papers/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://energy-informatics2021.org/call-for-papers/</a>.
We would be grateful if you would further
circulate this call.<br>
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As a good tradition from the last years, the
Doctoral Workshop on Energy Informatics is
co-located with the DACH+ Conference. The CfP
is also attached. Please spread this
information to doctoral students that might
benefit from the workshop’s signature feature
of shepherding process and intense discussion.<br>
<br>
Best regards on behalf of the organizers,<br>
Anke Weidlich – General Chair<br>
Ramiz Qussous & Nick Harder – Publicity
Chairs<br>
Dirk Neumann, Philipp Staudt & Gunther
Gust – TPC Chairs<br>
Astrid Nieße – Doctoral Workshop Chair<br>
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*** <strong>Energy Informatics 2021 -- Call
for Papers ***</strong><br>
The European Union intends to reduce its
emissions by 55% in 2030 and aims to be
climate neutral in 2050. This makes the
integration of intermittent renewable power
generation a question of growing importance.
Simultaneously, new demand side resources are
added both at the transmission level with
newly installed large electrolysers and at the
distribution level with a sharp increase in
numbers of electric vehicles and heat pumps.
Bridging the intermittency of generation and
the load of new (flexible) consumers can only
succeed through ICT and related concepts.<br>
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The objective of the DACH+ conference series
on Energy Informatics is to promote the
research, development, and implementation of
information and communication technologies in
the energy domain and to foster the exchange
between academia, industry, and service
providers in the German-Austrian-Swiss region
and its neighbouring countries (DACH+).<br>
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We seek high-quality original contributions
addressing the design, adoption, operation and
management of smart energy systems, the
integration of intermittent renewable
generation and energy efficiency gains through
ICT, market approaches and mechanisms for
ICT-enabled energy systems, and research on
associated (decentralised) data-driven
decisions. We welcome theoretical
contributions as well as publications
addressing system design, implementation, and
experimentation. The list of topics of
interest to the conference includes, but is
not limited to:</p>
<ul>
<li>ICT for future energy systems, sector
coupling and the integration of intermittent
renewable generation</li>
<li>Information and decision support systems
for future energy markets and mechanisms</li>
<li>Energy system modelling</li>
<li>Protocols and architectures for IT systems
in the energy sector</li>
<li>Data analytics and machine learning for
smart energy systems and decentralised
decision making, as well as platforms for
data analysis</li>
<li>Open data and software for energy research</li>
<li>Management of distributed generation and
demand side management</li>
<li>ICT for (multi-) energy networks and
micro-grids</li>
<li>Energy-efficient mobility, charging
management for electric vehicles,
energy-aware traffic control, and smart grid
integration of mobile storage</li>
<li>Smart buildings, digital metering,
occupant comfort, and user interaction</li>
<li>Adoption of ICT in the energy sector</li>
<li>Cross-cutting issues including cyber
security and privacy protection,
interoperability, verification of networked
smart grid systems</li>
</ul>
<p>*** <strong>Important Dates ***</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Paper submission: May 7, 2021</li>
<li> Poster/Demo submission: May 7, 2021 </li>
<li> Notification: Jun 18, 2021</li>
<li> Camera-ready paper due: Jul 2, 2021</li>
<li> Doctoral Workshop: Sep 14-15, 2021</li>
<li> Conference: Sep 13-17, 2021</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>*** Posters, Demos and Workshops
***</strong><br>
Submissions for posters, demos, and workshop
suggestions are welcome, too. Details can be
found on the conference website.<br>
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<strong>*** Submission and Publication ***</strong><br>
Submitted papers will be reviewed in a
double-blind process. Accepted and presented
papers will be published in the Springer Open
Journal Energy Informatics <a
href="https://energyinformatics.springeropen.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://energyinformatics.springeropen.com</a>.
The conference language is English, and papers
must be written in English. We solicit full
research papers (max. 18 pages of content plus
2 additional pages for references) as well as
short papers (max. 10 pages of content plus 2
additional pages for references). Templates
and instructions will be made available at <a
href="https://www.energy-informatics.eu/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.energy-informatics.eu/</a>.
Further information on the submission of
posters and demos is also available on the
website. The Open Access fee for the journal
article is included in the registration fee.</p>
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