[fg-arc] CFP: SE4SG 2013 - 2nd Int. ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for the Smart Grid

[Heiko Koziolek]

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS
                  (Deadline: February 07, 2013)

                  2nd International Workshop on 
       Software Engineering Challenges for the Smart Grid
                            (SE4SG)

                May 18th, 2013, San Francisco, USA
                   http://se4sg.ipd.kit.edu

              workshop in conjunction with ICSE 2013
                 http://2013.icse-conferences.org
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* Paper submission : Feb 7, 2013
* Acceptance notification : Feb 28, 2013
* Camera ready copy : Mar 7, 2013 

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This 2nd workshop will focus on understanding and identifying the unique
challenges and opportunities for SE to contribute to and enhance the design
and development of the smart grid. In smart grids, the geographical scale,
requirements on real-time performance and reliability, and diversity of
application functionality all combine to produce a unique, highly demanding
problem domain for SE to address. The objective of this workshop is to
bring together members of the SE community and the power engineering
community to understand these requirements and determine the most
appropriate SE tools, methods and techniques. 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

SE4SG workshop is interested in submissions on all topics related to
identifying and developing appropriate methods, tools and techniques for
smart grid software. Specifically, we will focus on: 
* Applications that support power engineering operations. Such
applications include, but are not limited to, complex event processing
systems for managing and manipulating large amounts of real-time sensor
data, and systems that provide infrastructure for metering, analysis,
decision support and control applications; 
* Software and enterprise architectures tailored for smart grids,
including the challenges of the Smart Grid as an ultra-large-scale system; 
* Designing applications with advanced computing capabilities. This
requires understanding the implications of, for example, exploiting cloud
computing and high performance, multicore computing platforms for
computationally intensive smart grid functions; 
* Designing simulation frameworks targeting smart grids. These can model
designs and predict system properties, e.g., responsiveness and
availability, based on simulated and historical data;
* Designing highly effective and usable analysis and monitoring tools for
grid operation; 
* Methodologies that apply advanced SE approaches to analyze and improve
the properties of smart grid applications. These include model-driven
development, self-managing and adaptive software systems, and quality
reasoning and evaluation frameworks; 
* Standards-based distributed architecture solutions and reference
architectures that enable open interfaces with plug-and-play hardware and
software components; 
* The design and analysis of robust, scalable security and privacy
frameworks for the smart grid; 
* Approaches to modeling and monitoring the system-wide performance,
scalability and/or other quality properties of the smart grid software
framework; 
* Software tools and engineering approaches for smart grid markets; 
* Software engineering approaches for business-IT alignment for smart
grids. 

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS

All papers should be submitted through Easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=se4sg13 

Research papers will be thoroughly reviewed for novelty, technical
quality, scientific soundness and relevance. They should not exceed 8 pages
double column including figures and tables. 
* Experience report papers cover innovative implementations, novel
applications of smart grid related technologies, interesting results and
experience in applying recent SE research advances to industrial situations
on any of the topics of interest. Papers should be 6-8 pages double column
including figures and tables. 
* Vision papers present emerging research challenges and long-term
research directions on hot topics of interest relevant to the smart grid
domain. Submissions of papers should be 4 pages. 

All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the ICSE 2013 paper
formatting guidelines. Make sure that you use US letter page format (don't
use A4!). Submissions must be in PDF format. Author names and affiliations
shall not be suppressed on the title page of the paper.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Alberto Avritzer, Siemens, USA
* Len Bass, NICTA
* Junwei Cao, Tshinghua University
* Hong-Mei Chen, U Hawaii
* James Ivers,  SEI
* Sebastian Lehnhoff, University of Oldenburg
* David Levy, University of Sydney
* Daniel Menasché, UFRJ
* Gabriel Moreno, SEI
* Martin Naedele, ABB
* Harmut Schmeck, KIT
* Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University
* Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

* Ian Gorton, PNNL, USA
* Yan Liu, Concordia University, Canada
* Heiko Koziolek, ABB, Germany
* Anne Koziolek, University of Zurich, Switzerland
* Mazeiar Salehie, Lero, Ireland

http://se4sg.ipd.kit.edu