CALL FOR PAPERS

Important Dates

  • July 2, 2017 July 9, 2017: Deadline for abstract submission. Authors will be notified regarding full papers within three weeks.
  • October 8, 2017 October 18, 2017: Deadline for full paper submission.
  • January 30, 2018: Authors notified about acceptance and required modifications.
  • March 11, 2018: Final manuscript submission.
  • June 11-15, 2018: PSCC’18

Topics

The following list of topics is not exhaustive but is offered in order to help prospective authors identify what is likely to be in scope.

  • Assessment of system issues in the presence of uncertainty or unbundling
    • Power system planning and operation
    • Asset management
    • Massive integration of renewable energy resources
    • Distributed storage systems
    • Power system economics, energy markets and regulation
    • Power system reliability and security
    • Uncertainty and risk management methods
  • Modelling and analysis of power system performance and control
    • Blackout prevention, system resilience and restoration
    • Control centre technologies and advanced operator tools
    • Wide-area monitoring and control
    • Power system dynamics
    • Power system protection
    • Power systems as part of multi-energy systems
    • Power systems and electro-mobility
    • Distribution system monitoring, operation and control
    • Aggregation of distributed energy resources
    • Flexible demand
    • Power electronics and HVDC as part of a power system
    • Electro-magnetic transients on a system
    • Power quality
  • Integrated modelling and operation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in power systems
    • Cyber security in power systems operation and control
    • ICT-driven intelligent and autonomous controls
    • Modelling of cyber-physical energy and communication systems
  • Data analysis and computation applied to power systems
    • Data-driven modelling techniques
    • Machine learning, statistics and computational intelligence
    • Management and utilization of big data
    • Mathematical and computational issues in modelling and simulation
    • Forecasting methods
    • Condition monitoring and diagnostics
THE TECHNIQUES CONSIDERED INCLUDE:
  • Modelling and simulation
  • Optimization and mathematical programming
  • Uncertainty & risk management methods
  • Control theory
  • Communication technology
  • Signal processing
  • Computational intelligence including evolutionary techniques, Artificial Neural Networks etc.
  • Machine learning and statistics
  • Semantic web technologies

Paper Types

Four types of papers are sought:

  • Type 1: New approaches and techniques for modelling, analysis or control of power systems.
  • Type 2: Improvements in methodologies or modelling currently applied in the power system domain.
  • Type 3: Case studies and experience with implementations of new methodologies.
  • Type 4: Case studies and experience in application of computational methods to modern power systems challenges.

Instructions to authors

Abstracts (Deadline July 2, 2017 July 9, 2017) – The abstract should contain the title of the paper, contact person, authors and their affiliations, keywords, together with a summary of the paper. Within three weeks of the deadline for receipt of the abstract, the contact person will be notified if the abstract is accepted or not.

Full Papers (Deadline October 8, 2017 October 18, 2017) – After acceptance of the abstract, authors will be requested to submit the full paper that should normally not exceed seven pages.

Detailed instructions on format and submission of abstracts and papers can be found at www.pscc2018.epfl.ch.

It should be noted that only electronically submitted abstracts and papers are considered.

All papers are evaluated by the Technical Programme Committee through a fair and rigorous procedure in order to guarantee a technical program of outstanding quality. In order to be published in the final conference proceedings, all accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the named authors. English will be used for all printed material, as well as for the technical presentations and discussions.

The IEEE Power & Energy Society is a Technical Co-Sponsoring Party of this conference. The conference proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore.