ACM SIGEnergy Workshop on Cybersecurity and Privacy of Energy Systems (EnergySP)

Abstract: Cybersecurity and privacy are an important pillar of energy systems. Modernized energy systems, including smart grid, distributed/renewable energy resources, EV-charging infrastructure, smart homes, and smart buildings, have been facing a number of cybersecurity attacks. On the other hand, extensive data collection from such systems are calling for stronger privacy protection.

ACM SIGEnergy Workshop on Cybersecurity and Privacy of Energy Systems (EnergySP) aims to establish an open forum for novel research ideas to be exchanged and shared from the energy systems and smart grid communities in the context of cybersecurity and privacy. We aim to bring together diverse experts from the cybersecurity and privacy areas as well as from those from the energy sector to establish cross-disciplinary exchanges of knowledge and insights to tackle the critical challenges in securing our energy future and providing privacy assurance to energy applications.

We encourage researchers and experts in the field of cybersecurity energy systems to take the opportunity to use this workshop to share their work and open the discussion of new ideas on this evolving topic.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cryptographic systems, secure key management, authentication, provenance, and access control for energy systems
• Cybersecurity of distributed energy resources and IoT devices
• Security analysis of energy management systems and grid controlling systems
• Industry standardization of secure energy management and control protocols
• Detection, prevention, and mitigation of cyber attacks and system anomalies in smart energy systems
• Cloud/Edge security for smart energy systems
• Machine/Deep learning and artificial intelligence approaches for security and privacy in smart energy systems
• Threat intelligence collection and analysis for smart energy systems
• Deception technologies for smart energy systems
• Moving target defense for smart energy systems
• Digital twins and testbeds for security and privacy risk assessment of smart energy systems
• SCADA and legacy system security
• Security by design and verification tools for smart energy systems
• Cyber attack and defense case studies on smart energy systems
• Human factors aspects in cybersecurity and privacy in smart energy systems
• Privacy-preserving energy systems and applications
• Privacy protection of energy data collection and sharing
• Blockchain-based secure energy systems
• Legal aspects and compliance of smart energy systems
• Economics of cybersecurity in energy systems

Dates:
Paper submission: March 24, 2025 (AOE)

Submission:
We invite papers with 4-6 pages in 9-point ACM proceedings template with double-column format (i.e., excluding references) and unlimited number of pages for appendices and references. The submission is not anonymous. Submissions will be made to HotCRP: https://energysp25.hotcrp.com.

Accepted papers will appear in ACM digital library.

Contact: For any questions, please contact one of the organisers:

• Sid Chi-Kin Chau ([email protected])
• Daisuke Mashima ([email protected])
• Ghada Elbez ([email protected])
• Kaibin Bao ([email protected])
• Zbigniew Kalbarczyk ([email protected])

Website: Please find more information (e.g., scope, submission instructions, and workshop schedule) on the Workshop Website: https://energysp.github.io/.

The 1st International Workshop on Advanced Deep Reinforcement Learning for Energy Systems (ADELE)

Abstract: The 1st International Workshop on Advanced Deep Reinforcement Learning for Energy Systems (ADELE) welcomes submissions from academic and industry focusing on Deep Reinforcement Learning and its applications to the energy domain. The workshop is geared towards presenting, exploring, and discussing newest approaches from the DRL domain and inspiring quick transition towards application and further research by scientists in the energy domain. ADELE recognizes that the premier targets of DRL research is not the energy domain and, therefore, strives to foster close cooperation between DRL and energy scientists.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Approaches to convering large state/action spaces, including handling underlying physical properties and controller conflicts
• State space representations
• Approaches to eXplainable Deep Reinforcement Learning suitable to large and complex (e.g., mixed discrete-continuous) state/action spaces
• Safe and Risk-averse DRL
• Offline learning from domain user knowledge without explicit trajectory encoding
• Physics-informed or model-based DRL
• Modifications of existing model-free algorithms wrt. the energy domain
• Neuroevolutionary DRL
• Hybrid agents (e.g., DRL-based extensions of known controllers)
• Agent verification

Dates:
Paper submission: April 1, 2025, 23:59 (AOE)
Notification: April 15, 2025, 23:59 (AOE)
Camera ready: May 1, 2025, 23:59 (AOE) Final Version in ACM TAPS

Submission:
ADELE invites submissions in the following format:

• Full workshop papers, up to 10 pages, following the ACM template according to the main conference’s guidelines (https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2025/cfp.php).
• Tutorials, with an accompanying paper of up to 4 pages, following the same templates as a full workshop paper.

The submission site of ADELE is located at: https://adele25.hotcrp.com/. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Presentations will honor the workshop format by providing 20 minutes with the actual slide deck and additional 10 minutes for discussion.

Program Committee:

• Omid Ardakanian, University of Alberta, Canada
• Dan Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
• Florence Carton, Total Energies, France
• Tianyu Zhang, Autodesk Research, Canada
• Eric MSP Veith, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
• Arlena Wellßow, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
• Torben Logemann, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Contact: For any questions, please contact:

• Eric Veith ([email protected])

The 1st International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Energy Flexibility (CAEF)

Abstract: Flexibility in electricity demand and supply is used to address challenges in markets, grid congestion, reducing CO2 emissions, etc. The amount of flexibility rapidly increases due to the electrification of transport and heat. Many of the new devices introduced by the electrification have a communication interface and implement a flexibility interface. To efficiently make use of this flexibility, it needs to be aggregated and/or coordinated. This requires advances in modeling of flexibility, distributed optimization of flexibility, computational-aware flexibility markets, and online optimization of flexibility. The use of flexibility itself introduces new challenges related to privacy, cybersecurity, and robustness.

We invite papers that address computational challenges related to flexibility. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Mathematical modeling of flexibility: (dis)aggregation of flexibility, quantifying flexibility, prediction of flexibility, generation of flexibility data;
• Communication of flexibility: flexibility protocols and standardization, privacy preserving communication of flexibility, robustness of ICT systems for flexibility, cybersecurity of demand-side management;
• Algorithms for using flexibility: algorithms for flexibility coordination, distributed optimization, performance guarantees of algorithms, computational efficiency, online algorithms, learning-augmented algorithms;
• Computational aspects of flexibility-markets: computation-aware flexibility market design, computational efficiency, algorithms for computing equilibria.

Dates:
Paper Registration and Submission: March 31, 2025 (AOE)

Submission:
All submissions must be at most 6 pages (including references, figures, and appendices), formatted in 9-point ACM double-column format. Papers should present original work, not published, accepted or under review for any other publication. Submissions are made to HotCRP.

Accepted papers will appear in ACM digital library.

Contact: For any questions, please contact one of the organizers:

• Marco Gerards ([email protected])
• Gerwin Hoogsteen ([email protected])
• Johann Hurink ([email protected])

Website: Please find more information (e.g., scope, submission instructions, and workshop schedule) on the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/utwente.nl/caef2025.

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