JACIII Special Issue on Smart Grid

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Smart Grid

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence & Intelligent Informatics (JACIII)

Vol.17 No.1

Recently many utilities, manufacturers, researchers, government leaders around the world are working on a very

sophisticated issue, Smart Grid, to modernize both the electric power transmission and distribution grids for the

future. Smart grids are intelligent and self-healing power systems which integrate intelligent transmission network

with IT and collect, distribute, and process information about the behavior of all power suppliers and consumers in

order to improve reliability, power quality, and to reduce electricity costs. Using a key issue, smart meter, enables

smart grids to have smart real time monitoring on a regional and national scale to control and management the grids

to avoid or mitigate the system-wide blackouts. In this special issue, we hope to explore breakthrough and new

contributions useful to achieve the goal of smart grid.

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence & Intelligent Informatics (JACIII) invites investigators to submit

original papers in the area of smart grid. Topic scopes related to all aspects of research, development, and

real-world applications of smart grid, including but not limited to the following:

z Smart meter development and smart metering infrastructure

z Demand response

z Electric vehicles(EVs)

z Renewable energy including solar, wind, micro-hydro, biomass, geothermal energies, etc.

z Energy storage such as compressed air energy storage (CAES), flywheel energy storage, pumped hydro

storage, etc.

z Demand side grid management

z Energy and demand forecasting

z Smart communities and micro grids

z Smart grid development planning

z Home and building energy management systems

z Security and privacy protection in smart grid

z Communication requirements of smart grid technologies

z Wi-Fi, home area network and peer-to-peer networking for smart grid

z Obstacles in smart grid development

z Applications of computational intelligence to smart grid

Important Dates

Deadline for submission of manuscripts: July 20, 2012

Notification of acceptance: September 20, 2012

Deadline for submission of final manuscripts: November 20, 2012

Publication of this issue: January 20, 2013

Paper Submission

Prof. Ken Nagasaka

Environmental Energy Engineering Lab

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Phone: +81-42-388-7481

E-mail: bahman@cc.tuat.ac.jp

Papers should be submitted in Microsoft Word or PDF format. Details on submission and the journal can be found

at the following link: http://www.fujipress.jp/JACIII

! Please note that authors are required to pay a page charge based on the number of published journal pages.

The manuscript written in English is 11,000 yen per page. For more details, please read the instruction on

our website: http://www.fujipress.jp/JACIII/JACIII_authors.html. !