Conference Topics

The Conference welcomes papers on intelligent systems application to Electric Power and Energy Systems (Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Markets, Operations, and Planning) with preference to :

Modern grid operation and control

• Smart grids
• Automated metering applications
• Demand-side participation and response
• Isolated and weakly interconnected power systems
• Microgrids and small island systems
• Self-healing grids
• Wide area system monitoring and control
• Fault diagnostics
• Protection

Electric power and energy system analysis, uncertainty and risk assessment

• Power system security, reliability and adequacy
• Power system economics and pricing
• Load and price forecasting and estimation
• Grid integration of renewables including solar and wind
• Vehicle to grid integration
• Complex interactive cyber-physical systems

Intelligent Systems including but not limited to:

• Intelligent estimation and classification techniques including neural nets, fuzzy systems, data mining, decision trees
• Knowledge based systems including rule-base systems, expert systems, model-based reasoning
• Advanced optimization techniques including genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimization, ant colonies, immune systems, and bacterial foraging
• Multi-agent systems, evolutionary intelligent agents, adaptive distributed computing and control
• Hybrid intelligent systems
• Computational neuroscience
• Game theory
• Molecular and quantum computing