Conference Program - Draft
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Opening Remarks
Keynote #1: Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Berend Smit, UC Berkeley
An EROI-Based Analysis of Renewable Energy Farms with Storage
Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal (University of Waterloo); Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo); Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo)
Control of Systems that Store Renewable Energy
Neda Edalat (National Universty of Singapore, ECE); Mehul Motani (National Universty of Singapore, ECE); Jean Walrand (University of California Berkeley, EECS); Longbo Huang (Tsinghua University, IIIS)
Modeling and Online Control of Generalized Energy Storage Networks
Junjie Qin (Stanford University); Yinlam Chow (Stanford University); Jiyan Yang (Stanford University); Ram Rajagopal (Stanford University)
Windy with a chance of profit - Bid strategy and analysis for wind integration
Sagar Kurandwad (TATA Consultancy Services); Chandrasekar Subramanian (TATA Consultancy Services); Venkata Ramakrishna P (TATA Consultancy Services); Arunchandar Vasan (TATA Consultancy Services); Venkatesh Sarangan (TATA Consultancy Services); Vijaysekhar Chellaboina (TATA Consultancy Services); Anand Sivasubramaniam (The Pennsylvania State University)
Reducing Electricity Demand Charge for Data Centers with Partial Execution
Hong Xu (City University of Hong Kong); Baochun Li (University of Toronto)
A Measurement-based Analysis of the Energy Consumption of Data Center Servers
Jordi Arjona (UC3M); Angelos Chatzipapas (Institute IMDEA Networks/UC3M); Antonio Fernandez Anta (Institute IMDEA Networks); Vincenzo Mancuso (Institute IMDEA Networks/UC3M)
Balance your Bids before your Bits: The Economics of Geographic Load-Balancing
Jose Camacho (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid); Ying Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Minghua Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Dah Ming Chiu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Understanding the environmental costs of fixed line networking
Louise Krug (BT PLC); Mark Shackleton (BT PLC); Fabrice Saffre (BT PLC)
When Mice Consume Like Elephants: Instant Messaging Applications
Ekhiotz Jon Vergara (Linköping University); Simon Andersson (Linköping University); Simin Nadjm-Tehrani (Linköping University)
Experimental Evaluation and Comparative Study on Energy Efficiency of the Evolving IEEE 802.11 Standards
Stratos Keranidis(University of Thessaly and CERTH); Giannis Kazdaridis(University of Thessaly and CERTH); Nikos Makris(University of Thessaly and CERTH); Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly and CERTH); Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business); Leandros Tassiulas (University of Thessaly and CERTH)
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Keynote #2: Renewable renergy, demand forecast, hyper-localised weather forecast…
Mathieu Sinn, IBM Research
Hot, Cold and In Between: Enabling Fine-Grained Environmental Control in Homes for Efficiency and Comfort
Neil Klingensmith (University of Wisconsin); Joseph Bomber (University of Wisconsin); Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin)
An Occupant-participatory Approach for Thermal Comfort Enhancement and Energy Conservation in Buildings
Lam Abraham Hang-yat (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University); Yuan Yi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University); Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
An In-depth Study of Forecasting Household Electricity Demand using Realistic Datasets
Chien-Yu Kuo (National Taiwan Normal University); Ming-Feng Lee and Chia-Lin Fu (Industrial Technology Research Institute); Yao-hua Ho (National Taiwan Normal University); Ling-Jyh Chen (Academia Sinica)
The cost of virtue: Reward as well as feedback are required to reduce user ICT power consumption
Yi Yu (University of St Andrews); Saleem N. Bhatti (University of St Andrews)
Impact of Demand-Response on the Efficiency and Prices in Real-Time Electricity Markets
Nicolas Gast (EPFL); Jean-Yves Le Boudec (EPFL); Dan-Cristian Tomozei (EPFL)
iDR: Consumer and Grid Friendly Demand Response System
Vikas Chandan (IBM Research India); Tanuja Ganu (IBM Research India); Tri Kurniawan Wijaya (EPFL, Switzerland); Marilena Minou (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece); George Stamoulis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece); George Thanos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece); Deva P. Seetharam (IBM Research India)
Cascading Failures in Power Grids - Analysis and Algorithms
Saleh Soltan (Columbia University); Dorian Mazauric (Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille); Gil Zussman (Columbia University)
One minute pitches from authors of posters/ demos
SoftUPS: Eliminating the need and cost of battery backups in the developing world
Zohaib Sharani (National Univ. of Computer & Emerging Sciences); Khushboo Qayyum (National Univ. of Computer & Emerging Sciences); Noman Bashir (National Univ. of Sciences and Technology); Affan Syed (National Univ. of Computer & Emerging Sciences)
Reducing the Electricity Consumption of Large LED Advertising Walls
Frank Englert (TU Darmstadt); Daniel Burgstahler (TU Darmstadt); Alaa Alhamoud (TU Darmstadt); Ahmad El’Hindi (TU Darmstadt); Ralf Steinmetz (TU Darmstadt)
METIS: a Two-Tier Intrusion Detection System for Advanced Metering Infrastructures
Vincenzo Gulisano (Chalmers University of Technology); Magnus Almgren (Chalmers University of Technology); Marina Papatriantafilou (Chalmers University of Technology)
SmartD: Smart Meter Data Analytics Dashboard
Aylin Jarrah Nezhad (EPFL); Tri Kurniawan Wijaya (EPFL); Matteo Vasirani (EPFL); Karl Aberer (EPFL)
A Social Approach for Predicting Distance-to-Empty in Vehicles
Chien-Ming Tseng(Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates); Sohan Dsouza (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates); Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates)
Self-configurable and Scalable Utility Communications Enabled by Software-Defined Networks
Young Jin Kim (Bell-Labs, Alcatel-Lucent); Keqiang He (University of Wisconsin); Marina Thottan (Bell-Labs, Alcatel-Lucent); Jayant G. Deshpande (Bell-Labs, Alcatel-Lucent)
NITOS Mobile Monitoring Solution: Realistic Energy Consumption Profiling of Mobile Devices
Stratos Keranidis (University of Thessaly); Giannis Kazdaridis (University of Thessaly); Virgilios Passas (University of Thessaly); Giannis Igoumenos (University of Thassaly); Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly); Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business); Leandros Tassiulas (University of Thessaly)
Predicting Peak-Demand Days in the Ontario Peak Reduction Program for Large Consumers
Yuheng Jiang(University of Waterloo); Ryan Levman(University of Waterloo); Lukasz Golab (University of Waterloo); Jatin Nathwani (University of Waterloo)
Comparing apples to oranges: Benchmarking geographically diverse supermarkets with limited data
Maathangi Sankar (Tata Consultancy Services); Venkata Ramakrishna P (Tata Consultancy Services); Shiva R Iyer (Tata Consultancy Services); Venkatesh Sarangan (Tata Consultancy Services); Arunchandar Vasan (Tata Consultancy Services);Anand Sivasubramaniam (Pennsylvania State University)
SURF and SURF-PI: A File Format and API for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Public Datasets
Lucas Pereira (Madeira-ITI); Nuno Nunes (Madeira-ITI; University of Madeira); Mario Bergés (Carnegie Mellon University)
Efficient PMU Data Dissemination in Smart Grid: Algorithms and Performance
Kedar Khandeparkar (IIT Bombay); Swadesh Jain (IIT Bombay); Pratik Patre (IIT Bombay); Rajeev Gupta (IBM Research); Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay)
Designing Sensor Sets for Capturing Energy Events in Buildings
Tom Lovett(University of Bath); Elizabeth Gabe-Thomas(University of Bath); Sukumar Natarajan(University of Bath); Matthew Brown(University of Bath); Julian Padget (University of Bath)
A Novel Heuristics-based Energy Management System for a Multi-Carrier Hub enriched with Solid Hydrogen Storage
Rosario Proietto (Onyx Technology s.r.l.); Diego Arnone (Engineering I.I. S.p.A.); Massimo Bertoncini (Engineering I.I. S.p.A.); Alessandro Rossi (Engineering I.I. S.p.A.); Diego La Cascia(Università degli Studi di Palermo); Rosario Miceli (Università degli Studi di Palermo); Eleonora Riva Sanseverino (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
Household Electricity Demand Forecasting - Benchmarking State-of-the-Art Methods
Andreas Veit(Technische Universtät München); Christoph Goebel(Technische Universtät München); Rohit Tidke(Technische Universtät München); Christoph Doblander(Technische Universtät München); Hans-Arno Jacobsen (Technische Universtät München)
Appliance Usage Profiling for Energy Management and Healthcare
Simeng Jia (University of Bristol); Ayomi Bandara (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd); Tim Lewis (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd); Mahesh Sooriyabandara (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd)
Putting Smart Meters to Work — Beyond the Usual
Kartik Palani (IIT Bombay); Nabeel Nasir (IIT Bombay); Vivek Chil Prakash (IIT Bombay); Amandeep Chugh (IIT Bombay); Rohit Gupta (IIT Bombay); Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay)
Unobtrusive Power Proportionality for HPC frameworks
Arka Bhattacharya (UC Berkeley); David Culler (UC Berkeley)
18:30 Drinks Reception (Directions)
19:00 Dinner
Friday, June 13, 2014
Is The Grass Greener? Mining Electric Vehicle Opinions
Tommy Carpenter (University of Waterloo); Lukasz Golab(University of Waterloo); Sohail Javaad Syed (University of Waterloo)
Online Welfare Maximization for Electric Vehicle Charging with Electricity Cost
Zizhan Zheng (The Ohio State University); Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University)
NILMTK: An Open Source Toolkit for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring
Nipun Batra (IIIT Delhi); Jack Kelly (Imperial College, London); Oliver Parson (University of Southampton); Haimonti Dutta (Columbia University); William Knottenbelt (Imperial College, London); Alex Rogers (University of Southampton); Amarjeet Singh (IIIT Delhi); Mani Srivastava (UCLA)
EnergyLens: Combining Smartphones with Electricity Meter for Accurate Activity Detection and User Annotation
Manaswi Saha (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - Delhi (IIITD)); Shailja Thakur (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - Delhi (IIITD)); Amarjeet Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - Delhi (IIITD)); Yuvraj Agarwal (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU))
Deltaflow: Submetering by Synthesizing Uncalibrated Pulse Sensor Streams
Meghan Clark (University of Michigan); Bradford Campbell (University of Michigan); Prabal Dutta (University of Michigan)
Algorithms for upgrading the resolution of aggregate energy meter data
Harshad Khadilkar (IBM India Research Lab); Tanuja Ganu (IBM India Research Lab); Zainul Charbiwala (IBM India Research Lab); Lim Chee Ming (Universiti Brunei Darussalam); Sathyajith Mathew (University of Brunei Darussalam); Deva P Seetharam (IBM India Research Lab)
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