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The purpose of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS) is to bring together researchers, designers, developers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of Smart Grids, Green Information and Communication Technologies, Sustainability, Energy Aware Systems and Technologies.

Green Computing is nowadays one of the major challenges for most IT organizations that involve medium and large scale distributed infrastructures like Grids, Clouds and Clusters. The conference will focus on solutions for all aspects of green computing such as energy efficiency, carbon footprint reduction and cooling management. The tradeoffs between energy efficiency and performance have become key challenges that must be addressed in both, distributed and traditional performance-oriented infrastructures. Particularly relevant is the so-called Smart Grid technology, seeking to optimize distributed electricity generation, especially from renewable sources, and to promote the use of smart devices (including smart home and new vehicular energy approaches) that require further research on distributed communications, energy storage and integrations of various sources of energy.

Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of SMARTGREENS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the SMARTGREENS conference website.

Conference Areas

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. SMART GRIDS 2. ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES 3. SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS

AREA 1: SMART GRIDS

Real-Time Systems Architectures for Smart Grids Smart Grids Modeling Smart Grid Specific Protocols Scalable Infrastructures for Smart Grids Standards for Smart Grids Load Balancing in Smart Grids Smart Grid Security and Reliability Smart Grids and Renewable Technologies Sensors for Smart Grids Fault Tolerance and Disaster Recovery in Smart Grids Integration of Smart Appliances Smart Cities Smart Homes (Domotics)

AREA 2: ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption Economic Models of Energy Efficiency Greener Systems Planning and Design Energy-Efficient Transmission Technologies Energy Monitoring Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies Performance Evaluation of Green Computing Systems Energy Profiling and Measurement Renewable Energy Resources Embedded Sensor Networks Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Energy Management Systems (EMS)

AREA 3: SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Green Data Centers Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat Qos and Green Computing Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools Virtualization Impact for Green Computing Pervasive Computing for Energy Efficiency Green Architectures for Grids, Clouds and Clusters Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks Sustainable Wireless Communication Energy Efficient Network Hardware Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols Teleworking and Remote Collaboration Education on Green Computing and Communications Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications

Important Dates

Conference Date: 9 - 10 May, 2013

Regular Paper Submission: November 16, 2012 Authors Notification (regular papers): January 18, 2013 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 8, 2013

SMARTGREENS Secretariat

Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq., 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal

Tel.: +351 265 520 184 Fax: +44 203 357 3118

e-mail: smartgreens.secretariat@insticc.org Web: http://www.smartgreens.org