Sustainability is of great importance due to increasing demands and limited resources world-wide. In particular, in the field of energy production and consumption methods are required that allow to produce renewable energy in an efficient way as well as develop methods for the efficient usage of energy. The vast extension of renewable energy sources, and the growing information structure allow a fine screening of energy resources, but also require the development of tools for the analysis and understanding of huge datasets about the energy grid.

On the algorithmic side evolutionary computing methods play a key role for planning, optimizing and forecasting sustainable systems. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers using as well as working on evolutionary computing methods for sustainable development.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Wind, solar and other renewable energy sources
• Planing and control in smart grid
• Balancing strategies for integration of volatile sources
• Network restoration
• Smart metering
• Forecasting of energy production and consumption
• Energy markets and economic aspects
• Hybrid electric and other plug-in vehicles
• Real-time and hardware-in-the-loop smart grid simulation
• Resource visualization and monitoring

During this half-day workshop, we plan to offer the following activities in addition to the technical talks:

• Group discussion "Quo vadis, Renewable Energy & EC?": an opportunity for industry and academia to discuss current challenges
• Demo session "Show us what you've got!": an opportunity to demonstrate tools, frameworks, algorithms, . . . (five minutes per demonstrated item)

Participation

If you want to give a talk and/or a demonstration at this workshop, we kindly ask you to send us the abstract via email first. We will then inform you if we can include your talk/presentation at the workshop. The abstract should be no longer than four pages (any style), and it should be submitted as a PDF file. Note that this abstract will not be published, neither in Workshop Proceedings nor in the PPSN 2014 Processings. However, we intend to organise a special issue of a highly-ranked magazine, and high-quality contributions to this workshop will be invited to submit full articles (details to come). In addition, we might upload the abstract and/or the slides of the presentation to this website, should be authors agree.

Dates

• Submission deadline (extended): 29 May 2014 (note: PPSN author notification is on 19 May 2014)
• Author notification: 9 June 2014
• Date of this workshop: -

Important Note: It is with great regret that we need to inform you that the workshop was cancelled. We wish all PPSN 2014 attendees a successful and fruitful attendance!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.