Conference Program

The finalists of the Best Paper Award are marked with * in the paper title.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at FZI Research Center for Information Technology
8:30-18:30 Conference Registration at FZI Research Center for Information Technology
Pick up your registration package at the workshop venue (FZI Research Center for Information Technology, House of Living Labs, Event Hall).
9:00-18:00 Workshops at FZI Research Center for Information Technology
Workshops at the workshop venue (FZI Research Center for Information Technology).
7th International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centres (E2DC)
Main Building, Room Tokyo
Full Day Workshop
3rd Workshop on Electric Vehicle Systems, Data, and Applications (EV-Sys)
Main Building, Room New York
Full Day Workshop
1st International Workshop on Energy Market Engineering (EME)
House of Living Labs, Room Hollywood
Full Day Workshop
1st International Workshop on Energy Data and Analytics (EDA)
House of Living Labs, Event Hall
Full Day Workshop
18:30-20:30 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception at the workshop venue (FZI Research Center for Information Technology, House of Living Labs, Event Hall).
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at AkademieHotel
8:00-9:00 Conference Registration and Morning Coffee at AkademieHotel
Conference Registration
Pick up your registration package at the conference venue (AkademieHotel Karlsruhe).
9:00-17:45 Conference Day 1 at AkademieHotel
9:00-9:15 General Chairs’ & PC Chairs’ Welcome
General Chair’s Welcome
Hartmut Schmeck (KIT)
Steering Committee’s Welcome
Minghua Chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
PC Chairs’ Welcome
David Irwin (UMass, Amherst) & Sid Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institut)
9:15-10:15 Keynote 1
Keynote: Antonello Monti (RWTH Aachen)
Making the Physical Layer Really Digital: Energy Packets
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Session 1: Demand Response
Session Chair: Dan Wang
Adaptive User-Oriented Direct Load-Control of Residential Flexible Devices
Davide Frazzetto (Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science), Bijay Neupane (Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science), Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science), Thomas Dyre (Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science)
Paper
Want to Reduce Energy Consumption, Whom should we call ?
Priyanka Mary Mammen (IIT Bombay), Hareesh Kumar (IIT Bombay), Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay), Haroon Rashid (IIIT Delhi)
Paper
Public Cloud Differential Pricing Design Under Provider and Tenants Joint Demand Response
Neda Nasiriani (Pennsylvania State University), George Kessidis (Pennsylvania State University), Di Wang (Microsoft Research)
Paper
Optimal Matching of Stochastic Solar Generators to Stochastic Loads
Sun Sun (University of Waterloo), Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo), Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo), Matthew Peloso (University of Waterloo)
Note
Adequate Feedback-based Customer Incentives in Automated Demand Response
Thanasis G. Papaioannou (Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)), George D. Stamoulis (Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)), Marilena Minou (Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB))
Note
12:15-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Session 2: Modeling and Forecasting
Session Chair: Julian De Hoog
Audience Award Best Paper
How much demand side flexibility do we need? Analyzing where to exploit flexibility in industrial processes
Lukas Barth (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Veit Hagenmeyer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Nicole Ludwig (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Dorothea Wagner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Paper
NowCasting: Accurate and Precise Short-Term Wind Power Prediction using Hyperlocal Wind Forecasts
Varun Badrinath Krishna (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Wander S. Wadman (Utopis Insight Inc.), Younghun Kim (Utopis Insights Inc.)
Paper
Audience Award Best Note
How Many Smartphones Does It Take To Detect A Power Outage?
Santiago Correa (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Noah Klugman (University of California Berkeley), Jay Taneja (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Note
Using vehicle-to-grid concepts to balance redispatch needs: A case study in Germany
Phiipp Staudt (KIT), Marc Schmidt (KIT), Johannes Gärtner (KIT), Christof Weinhardt (KIT)
Note
Towards the Modeling of Flexibility Using Artificial Neural Networks in Energy Management and Smart Grids
Kevin Förderer (FZI Research Center for Information Technology), Mischa Ahrens (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Kaibin Bao (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Ingo Mauser (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Hartmut Schmeck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Note
Segmenting Residential Smart Meter Data for Short-Term Load Forecasting
Alexander Kell (Newcastle University), Stephen McGough (Newcastle University), Matthew Forshaw (Newcastle University)
Note
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Session 3: Energy Markets
Session Chair: Patrick Jochem
Intelligent Agent Strategies for Residential Customers in Local Electricity Markets
Esther Mengelkamp (Karlsruhe Institut of Technology), Johannes Gärttner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Christof Weinhardt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Paper
Utilizing Device-level Demand Forecasting for Flexibility Markets
Bijay Neupane (Aalborg University), Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University)
Paper
* A Capacity-Price Game for Uncertain Renewables Resources *
Pan Li (University of Washington), Shreyas Sekar (University of Washington), Baosen Zhang (University of Washington)
Paper
Day-ahead Trading of Aggregated Energy Flexibility
Emmanouil Valsomatzis (Aalborg University), Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University), Alberto Abello (Politecnica de Catalunya)
Note
Stabilization of Power Networks via Market Dynamics
Pengcheng You (Zhejiang University), John Z.F. Pang (Caltech), Enoch Yeung (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Note
18:30-20:30 Social Event: Tours
Tour A: City Tour Karlsruhe
Public Transport (KVV Line S1/S11 to Marktplatz / Market Square), meeting point: Karl-Friedrich-Denkmal at Schlossplatz / Palace Square
Tour B: Brewery Tour Hoepfner
Public Transport (KVV Line S1/S11 and Lines 4/5 to Karl-Wilhelm-Platz), meeting point: FZI Main Building
Thursday, June 14, 2018 at AkademieHotel
8:30-9:00 Morning Coffee at AkademieHotel
Morning Coffee and Networking
9:00-17:30 Conference Day 2 at AkademieHotel
9:00-10:00 Keynote 2
Keynote: Marc Timme (TU Dresden)
Braess’ Paradox in Transmission System Planning
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 4: Energy Storage
Session Chair: Jay Taneja
Audience Award Best Paper Runner-Up
Robust and Practical Approaches for Solar PV and Storage Sizing
Fiodar Kazhamiaka (University of Waterloo), Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal (Erasmus University), Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo), Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo)
Paper
Analyzing Distribution Transformers at City Scale and the Impact of EVs and Storage
John Wamburu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Stephen Lee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), David Irwin (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Paper
Audience Award Best Note
Scheduling Fast Local Rule-Based Controllers for Optimal Operation of Energy Storage
Julian de Hoog (IBM Research Australia), Khalid Abdulla (IBM Research Australia), Ramachandra Rao Kolluri (IBM Research Australia), Paras Karki (Selectronic Australia)
Note
Distributed Energy Management of P2P Energy Sharing in Energy Internet Based on Cloud Energy Storage
Yanglin Zhou (ShanghaiTech University), Song Ci (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Hongjia Li (State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yang Yang (ShanghaiTech University)
Note
vSolar: Virtualizing Community Solar and Storage for Energy Sharing
Stephen Lee (UMass Amherst), Prashant Shenoy (UMass Amherst), Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay), David Irwin (UMass Amherst)
Note
Challenges in Scheduling Electric Vehicle Charging with Discrete Charging Rates in AC Power Networks
Majid Khonji (Masdar Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology), Sid Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology), Khaled Elbassioni (Masdar Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology)
Note
12:00-13:15 Lunch Break
13:15-14:45 Session 5: Load Monitoring
Session Chair: Arun Vishwanath
A Crowdsourcing Approach for the Inference of Distribution Grids
Pezhman Nasirifard (Technische Universität München), Jose Rivera (Technische Universität München), Qunjie Zhou (Technische Universität München), Klaus Bernd Schneider (Technische Universität München), Hans-Arno Jacobsen (Technische Universität München)
Paper
PANDA: Performance Acceleration through Nonuniform Data Acquisition
Neil Klingensmith (University of Wisconsin), Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin)
Paper
Extracting the Full Potential of Voltage
Rohit Gupta (IIT Bombay), Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay)
Paper
UniversalNILM: A Semi-supervised Energy Disaggregation Framework using General Appliance Models
Bontor Humala (TU Delft), Akshay S.N. Nambi (Microsoft), Venkatesha R. Prasad (TU Delft)
Note
EMBED: A Dataset for Energy Monitoring through Building Electricity Disaggregation
Farrokh Jazizadeh (Virginia Tech), Milad Afzalan (Virginia Tech), Burcin Becerik-Gerber (University of Southern California), Lucio Soibelman (University of Southern California)
Note
14:45-16:15 Poster & Demo Session & Coffee
Session Chair: Patrick Jochem, Ingo Mauser
Please find the list of all posters at http://conferences.sigcomm.org/eenergy/2018/poster_session.php
Poster
16:15-17:45 Session 6: Buildings and HVAC
Session Chair: Krithi Ramamritham
Best Paper
* Data Driven Chiller Sequencing for Reducing HVAC Electricity Consumption in Commercial Buildings *
Zimu Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Qiong Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Fan Cheng (Shenzhen University), Nan Guan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Arun Vishwanath (IBM Research Australia), Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Fangming Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Paper
HVAC Precooling Optimization for Green Buildings: An RC-Network Approach
Hongsen Shi (The Ohio State University), Jia Liu (Iowa State University), Qian Chen (The Ohio State University)
Paper
Enabling Self-aware Smart Buildings by Augmented Reality
Muhammad Aftab (Masdar Institute), Sid Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institute), Majid Khonji (Masdar Institute)
Note
Reducing Energy Consumption for Space Heating by Changing Zone Temperature: Pilot Study in Lulea, Sweden
Kumar Saurav (IBM Research), Mohit Jain (IBM Research), Sambaran Bandyopadhyay (IBM Research)
Note
A Domain-Assisted Data Driven Model for Thermal Comfort Prediction in Buildings
Liang Yang (Beijing Institute of Technology), Zimu Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Jingting Sun (HVAC & Gas Institute, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University), Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Xin Li (Beijing Institute of Technology)
Note
Data-Driven Models for Building Occupancy Estimation
Shadan Golestan (University of Alberta), Sepehr Kazemian (University of Alberta), Omid Ardakanian (University of Alberta)
Note
18:00-22:30 Conference Banquet
Transfer to Conference Banquet Location
Public Transport (KVV Line S1/S11 to Market Square)
19:00-22:30 Conference Banquet
Badische Weinstuben in Botanical Garden of Karlsruhe Palace
Best Paper Award
David Irwin (UMass) & Sid Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institut)
Friday, June 15, 2018 at AkademieHotel
8:30-9:00 Morning Coffee at AkademieHotel
Morning Coffee
9:00-15:30 Conference Day 3 at AkademieHotel
9:00-10:00 Keynote 3
Keynote: Jens Griesing (Grid Singularity)
Blockchain in the Energy Sector
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 7: Security and Operations
Session Chair: Minghua Chen
Best Paper Runner-Up
* Multi-timescale Electricity Theft Detection and Localization in Distribution Systems Based on State Estimation and PMU Measurements *
Come Carquex (University of Waterloo), Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo)
Paper
* Adversarial Attacks to Distributed Voltage Control in Power Distribution Networks with DERs *
Peizhong Ju (Purdue University), Xiaojun Lin (Purdue University)
Paper
T-RECS: A Virtual Commissioning Tool for Software-Based Control of Electric Grids: Design, Validation and Operation
Jagdish Achara (École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Maaz Mohiuddin (École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Wajeb Saab (École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Roman Rudnik (École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Jean-Yves Le Boudec (École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Chamorro Lorenzo (École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Paper
Augmenting DER hosting capacity of distribution grids through local energy markets and dynamic phase switching
José Horta (Telecom ParisTech), Daniel Kofman (Telecom ParisTech), David Menga (EDF R&D), Mathieu Caujolle (EDF R&D)
Note
ETHome: Open-source blockchain based energy community controller
Jonas Schlund (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg), Lorenz Ammon (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg), Reinhard German (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Note
12:00-13:15 Lunch Break
13:15-14:45 Session 8: Energy Networks and Routing
Session Chair: Majid Khonji
* Energy-Efficient Timely Truck Transportation for Geographically-Dispersed Tasks *
Qingyu Liu (Virginia Tech), Haibo Zeng (Virginia Tech), Minghua Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Paper
The Maximum Transmission Switching Flow Problem
Alban Grastien (Australian National University), Ignaz Rutter (Eindhoven University of Technology), Dorothea Wagner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Franziska Wegner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Matthias Wolf (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Paper
A new solution for the Energy Packet-based Dispatching using power/signal dual modulation
Edoardo De Din (RWTH Aachen University), Antonello Monti (RWTH Aachen University), Veit Hagenmeyer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University)
Note
Distributed chance-constrained optimal power flow based on primary frequency control
Maxime Velay (CEA LIST / Univ. de Grenoble Alpes), Meritxell Vinyals (CEA LIST), Yvon Besanger (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G2Elab), Nicolas Retiere (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G2Elab)
Note
14:45-15:30 Closing Ceremony
General Chair’s Closing Remarks
Hartmut Schmeck (KIT)
Audience Awards
David Irwin (UMass) & Sid Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institut)

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Conference Program

Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at FZI Research Center for Information Technology

8:30-18:30 Conference Registration at FZI Research Center for Information Technology

9:00-18:00 Workshops at FZI Research Center for Information Technology

7th International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centres (E2DC)

3rd Workshop on Electric Vehicle Systems, Data, and Applications (EV-Sys)

1st International Workshop on Energy Market Engineering (EME)

1st International Workshop on Energy Data and Analytics (EDA)

18:30-20:30 Welcome Reception

Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at AkademieHotel

8:00-9:00 Conference Registration and Morning Coffee at AkademieHotel

Conference Registration

9:00-17:45 Conference Day 1 at AkademieHotel

9:00-9:15 General Chairs’ & PC Chairs’ Welcome

General Chair’s Welcome

Steering Committee’s Welcome

PC Chairs’ Welcome

9:15-10:15 Keynote 1

Keynote: Antonello Monti (RWTH Aachen)

10:15-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:15 Session 1: Demand Response

Adaptive User-Oriented Direct Load-Control of Residential Flexible Devices

Want to Reduce Energy Consumption, Whom should we call ?

Public Cloud Differential Pricing Design Under Provider and Tenants Joint Demand Response

Optimal Matching of Stochastic Solar Generators to Stochastic Loads

Adequate Feedback-based Customer Incentives in Automated Demand Response

12:15-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-15:00 Session 2: Modeling and Forecasting

Audience Award Best Paper How much demand side flexibility do we need? Analyzing where to exploit flexibility in industrial processes

NowCasting: Accurate and Precise Short-Term Wind Power Prediction using Hyperlocal Wind Forecasts

Audience Award Best Note How Many Smartphones Does It Take To Detect A Power Outage?

Using vehicle-to-grid concepts to balance redispatch needs: A case study in Germany

Towards the Modeling of Flexibility Using Artificial Neural Networks in Energy Management and Smart Grids

Segmenting Residential Smart Meter Data for Short-Term Load Forecasting

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Session 3: Energy Markets

Intelligent Agent Strategies for Residential Customers in Local Electricity Markets

Utilizing Device-level Demand Forecasting for Flexibility Markets

* A Capacity-Price Game for Uncertain Renewables Resources *

Day-ahead Trading of Aggregated Energy Flexibility

Stabilization of Power Networks via Market Dynamics

18:30-20:30 Social Event: Tours

Tour A: City Tour Karlsruhe

Tour B: Brewery Tour Hoepfner

Thursday, June 14, 2018 at AkademieHotel

8:30-9:00 Morning Coffee at AkademieHotel

Morning Coffee and Networking

9:00-17:30 Conference Day 2 at AkademieHotel

9:00-10:00 Keynote 2

Keynote: Marc Timme (TU Dresden)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session 4: Energy Storage

Audience Award Best Paper Runner-Up Robust and Practical Approaches for Solar PV and Storage Sizing

Analyzing Distribution Transformers at City Scale and the Impact of EVs and Storage

Audience Award Best Note Scheduling Fast Local Rule-Based Controllers for Optimal Operation of Energy Storage

Distributed Energy Management of P2P Energy Sharing in Energy Internet Based on Cloud Energy Storage

vSolar: Virtualizing Community Solar and Storage for Energy Sharing

Challenges in Scheduling Electric Vehicle Charging with Discrete Charging Rates in AC Power Networks

12:00-13:15 Lunch Break

13:15-14:45 Session 5: Load Monitoring

A Crowdsourcing Approach for the Inference of Distribution Grids

PANDA: Performance Acceleration through Nonuniform Data Acquisition

Extracting the Full Potential of Voltage

UniversalNILM: A Semi-supervised Energy Disaggregation Framework using General Appliance Models

EMBED: A Dataset for Energy Monitoring through Building Electricity Disaggregation

14:45-16:15 Poster & Demo Session & Coffee

16:15-17:45 Session 6: Buildings and HVAC

Best Paper * Data Driven Chiller Sequencing for Reducing HVAC Electricity Consumption in Commercial Buildings *

HVAC Precooling Optimization for Green Buildings: An RC-Network Approach

Enabling Self-aware Smart Buildings by Augmented Reality

Reducing Energy Consumption for Space Heating by Changing Zone Temperature: Pilot Study in Lulea, Sweden

A Domain-Assisted Data Driven Model for Thermal Comfort Prediction in Buildings

Data-Driven Models for Building Occupancy Estimation

18:00-22:30 Conference Banquet

Transfer to Conference Banquet Location

19:00-22:30 Conference Banquet

Best Paper Award

Friday, June 15, 2018 at AkademieHotel

8:30-9:00 Morning Coffee at AkademieHotel

Morning Coffee

Audience Award Best Paper
How much demand side flexibility do we need? Analyzing where to exploit flexibility in industrial processes

Audience Award Best Note
How Many Smartphones Does It Take To Detect A Power Outage?

Audience Award Best Paper Runner-Up
Robust and Practical Approaches for Solar PV and Storage Sizing

Audience Award Best Note
Scheduling Fast Local Rule-Based Controllers for Optimal Operation of Energy Storage

Best Paper
* Data Driven Chiller Sequencing for Reducing HVAC Electricity Consumption in Commercial Buildings *

Best Paper Runner-Up
* Multi-timescale Electricity Theft Detection and Localization in Distribution Systems Based on State Estimation and PMU Measurements *