Conference Program
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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ENERGY-SIM Workshop
E2DC Workshop
CCCR Workshop
EV-SYS Workshop
E2DC Workshop
CCCR Workshop
Welcome Reception
Will take place in the Billiards Room at the Huether Hotel (59 King Street North, Waterloo).
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
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General Chair & PC Chairs’ Welcome
S. Keshav (University of Waterloo) & Steven Low (Caltech) & Minghua Chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Ontario’s Changing Electricity System and the Role of Data
Doug Thomas (Vice-President of Information and Technology Services, and Chief Information Officer, IESO)
Abstract: Ontario’s electricity system continues to undergo rapid and fundamental change. These changes which are occurring at all levels of the electricity system from the largest generators, through the transmission and distribution systems, right through to businesses and individual home owners are altering how we generate, transmit, and consume electricity. Over the past few years, Ontario has seen the phase out of coal-fired generation, tremendous growth in renewable generation sources at both the transmission and distribution level, and a strong focus on conservation and demand management initiatives. All of this is leading to a significant and dramatic growth in both the quantity and quality of data that is required to manage the electricity system. At the individual homeowner level, new technologies and ways of managing electricity demand and consumption such as “power walls” and “micro grids” will profoundly affect how Ontarians consume electricity in the future. The installation of smart meters for over 4 million Ontario households not only allows individual homeowners to manage their consumption but represents a vast repository of information that we are beginning to take advantage of.
The presentation will discuss past, present, and future changes in the supply mix, the growing role of market mechanisms in the efficient management of the electricity system, the impact of smart meters, and how growing importance and value of data impacts each of those areas.Keynote
Online Microgrid Energy Generation Scheduling Revisited: The Benefits of Randomization and Interval Prediction
Mohammad Hajiesmaili (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Sid Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Minghua Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Longbo Huang (Tsinghua University)
Paper
Supply Scheduling and Usage-Based Pricing for Shared Storage in Adaptive Dynamic Islanding
Anamitra R Choudhury (IBM Research), Ramachandra Kota (IBM Research), Sampath Dechu (IBM Research), Sambaran Bandyopadhyay (IBM Research)
Paper
A Network Calculus Foundation for Smart-Grids where Demand and Supply Vary in Space and Time
Pratyush Kumar (IBM Research Lab)
Paper
Leveraging Energy Storage to Optimize Data Center Electricity Cost in Emerging Power Markets
Yuanyuan Shi (University of Washington), Bolun Xu (University of Washington), Baosen Zhang (University of Washington), Di Wang (Microsoft Research)
Paper
How to Cool Internet-Scale Distributed Networks on the Cheap
Vani Gupta (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stephen Lee (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ramesh K. Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Akamai Technologies), Rahul Urgaonkar (Amazon)
Paper
Joint Capacity Planning and Operational Management for Sustainable Data Centers and Demand Response
Tan N. Le (Stony Brook University), Zhenhua Liu (Stony Brook University), Yuan Chen (Hewlett Packard Labs), Cullen Bash (Hewlett Packard Labs)
Paper
An Online Incentive Mechanism for Emergency Demand Response in Geo-Distributed Colocation Data Centers
Qihang Sun (The University of Hong Kong), Shaolei Ren (University of California, Riverside), Chuan Wu (The University of Hong Kong), Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary)
Paper
Dependency-based FlexOffers: Scalable Management of Flexible Loads with Dependencies
Laurynas Šikšnys (Aalborg University), Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University)
Paper
Thermally-fair Demand Response for District Heating and Cooling (DHC) Networks
Saptarshi Bhattacharya (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Vikas Chandan (IBM Research India), Vijay Arya (IBM Research India), Koushik Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Paper
Research to Practice
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (IBM), Heiko Lehmann (Deutsche Telekom), Steven Low (Caltech), Prashant Shenoy (UMass Amherst)
Panel
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Pathways to Electricity Access for the Poor: IoT can make it happen
Vijay Modi (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty Earth Institute, Columbia University)
Abstract: Looking at multiple different landscapes in sub-Saharan Africa, a architecture of energy poverty emerges. The diversity of energy demands, geography and regionally varied resource endowments presents many options. Yet the ability to use electricity in a convenient, flexible and scalable form, whether for cooking or transport or electricity has eluded hundreds of millions. Recent work in mini-grids using smart sensors as a bridge from stand-alone approaches or as a bridge to grid is described. Data from seventeen mini-grids deployed in two countries with hundreds of consumers are shining light on tradeoffs between cost, reliability, generation and storage sizing and in future dynamically allocating power and energy amongst diverse consumers.Keynote
Li-Ion Storage Models for Energy System Optimization: The Accuracy-Tractability Tradeoff
Fiodar Kazhamiaka (University of Waterloo), Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo), Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo), Karl-Heinz Pettinger (Hochshule Landshut)
Paper
Resting Weak Cells to Improve Battery Pack’s Capacity Delivery via Reconfiguration
Liang He (University of Michigan), Eugene Kim (University of Michigan), Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan)
Paper
Understanding Solar PV and Battery Adoption in Ontario: An Agent-Based Approach
Adedamola Adepetu (University of Waterloo), Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo)
Paper
In-situ Sensor Network for Microclimate and Urban Energy Modeling and Validation
Mukesh Jha (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Alexandros Tsoupos (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Prashanth Reddy Marpu (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Peter Armstrong (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology)
Poster
A Framework for Occupancy-aided Energy Disaggregation
Guoming Tang (University of Victoria), Kui Wu (University of Victoria)
Poster
Decentralized Optimization of Energy Exchanges in an Electricity Microgrid
Benoît Vinot (G2ELab/Schneider-Electric/Inria), Florent Cadoux (G2ELab), Rodolphe Héliot (Schneider-Electric)
Poster
Inferring Non-Outage Events Using Meter Voltage Data
Ramachandra Kota (IBM Research), Vijay Arya (IBM Research), Daniel Bowden (DTE Energy)
Poster
Optimizing Energy Costs of Commercial Buildings in Developing Countries
Kumar Saurav (IBM Research), Heena Bansal (IBM Research), Megha Nawhal (IBM Research), Ashok P Kumar (IBM Research), Vikas Chandan (IBM Research), Vijay Arya (IBM Research), Sridhar R (IBM RESO), Babitha Ramesh (IBM RESO)
Poster
Towards Constraint-based Aggregation of Energy Flexibilities
Emmanouil Valsomatzis (Aalborg University), Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University), Alberto Abelló (Polytechnic University of Catalonia), Katja Hose (Aalborg University), Laurynas Šikšnys (Aalborg University)
Poster
Combining Data with Physics to Monitor Solar Panels
Nikhil Hooda (IBM Research Lab), Pratyush Kumar (IBM Research Lab), Amar Azad (IBM Research Lab), Vijay Arya (IBM Research Lab), Mohammad I. Petra (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)
Poster
SunShade: Software-defined Solar Power
Akansha Singh (UMASS), Stephen Lee (UMASS), David Irwin (UMASS), Prashant Shenoy (UMASS)
Poster
Observability: Replacing Sensors with Inference Engines
Vitobha Munigala (IIT Bombay), Anshul Ajay Agarwal (IIT Bombay), Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay), Vitobha Munigala (IIT Bombay)
Poster
Harmoney: Saving Energy Costs in Buildings through Harmonic Current Mitigation
Leena Markose (Tata Consultancy Services), Venkatesh Sarangan (Tata Consultancy Services), Arunchandar Vasan (Tata Consultancy Services), Ramasubramania Suriyanarayanan (Tata Consultancy Services), Anand Sivasubramaniam (Penn State University)
Poster
Multiple Time-scale Model Predictive Control for Thermal Comfort in Buildings
Rachel Kalaimani (University of Waterloo), Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo), Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo)
Poster
Collect, Compare, and Score: A Generic Data-driven Anomaly Detection Method for Buildings
Haroon Rashid (IIIT-Delhi), Pandarasamy Arjunan (IIIT-Delhi), Pushpendra Singh (IIIT-Delhi), Amarjeet Singh (IIIT-Delhi)
Poster
Speed Planning for Solar-Powered Electric Vehicles
Mingsong Lv (Northeastern University, China), Nan Guan (Northeastern University, China), Ye Ma (Northeastern University, China), Dong Ji (BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd), Erwin Knippel (BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd), Xue Liu (McGill University), Wang Yi (Uppsala University)
Paper
Range Prediction for Electric Bicycles
Lukas Gebhard (Universitat Passau), Lukasz Golab (University of Waterloo), Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo), Hermann de Meer (Universitat Passau)
Paper
Fuel Minimization of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles by Optimizing Drive Mode Selection
Sid Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Khaled Elbassioni (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Chien-Ming Tseng (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology)
Paper
Energy-Efficient Timely Transportation of Long-Haul Heavy-Duty Trucks
Lei Deng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Mohammad Hassan Hajiesmaili (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Minghua Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Haibo Zeng (Virginia Tech)
Paper
Conference Banquet
Will be held at CIGI
Friday, June 24, 2016
Modelling Performance and Power Consumption of Utilisation-based DVFS Using M/M/1 Queues
Robert Basmadjian (University of Passau), Florian Niedermeier (University of Passau), Hermann de Meer (University of Passau)
Paper
Energy-Efficient Disk Caching for Content Delivery
Aditya Sundarrajan (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Mangesh Kasbekar (Akamai Technologies), Ramesh K. Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Akamai Technologies)
Paper
Enabling Reliable Data Center Demand Response via Aggregation
Luyao Niu (Oklahoma State University), Yuanxiong Guo (Oklahoma State University)
Paper
Shepherd: Sharing Energy for Privacy Preserving in Hybrid AC-DC Microgrids
Zhichuan Huang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Ting Zhu (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Yu Gu (IBM Research), Yanhua Li (WPI)
Paper
Towards Provable Privacy Guarantees Using Rechargeable Energy-Storage Devices
Fabian Laforet (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Erik Buchmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Klemens Bohm (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Paper
Non-Intrusive Model Detection: Automated Modeling of Residential Electrical Loads
Srinivasan Iyengar (University of Massachusetts Amherst), David Irwin (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Paper
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