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December 2024 ACM SIGEnergy Newsletter

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Happy holidays, everyone! As we approach the end of 2024, we would like to take a moment to express our sincere gratitude for your continued support of ACM SIGEnergy.

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Content

1. ACM eEnergy’25 – Call for Site Proposal (2026), Call for Paper Winter-Round (2025)

2. ACM BuildSys

3. EIR – Energy Informatics Review / DACH+ Conference and HOTCARBON 24

4. SIGEnergy Graduate Seminar Series

5. Tin Hau: A Building Time-series Foundation Model

6. ACM SIGEnergy resource for energy-related data sets

7. Posting additional information (contact Shijia Pan: [email protected])

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1. ACM eEnergy’25 – Call for Site Proposal (2026), Call for Paper Winter-Round (2025)

ACM e-Energy is the premier forum for research at the intersection of computing and communication technologies with energy systems. It has established a strong track record for high-quality research in the application of computing and networked systems to make legacy systems more energy-efficient and in the design, analysis, and development of sustainable and innovative energy systems.

The 16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy 2025) and its co-located tutorials and workshops will be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 17 – 20, 2025 (the workshops are on June 17 and the main technical conference is during June 18 – 20).

By bringing together researchers in a high-quality single-track conference with significant opportunities for individual and small-group interaction, it will serve as a major forum for presentations and discussions that will shape the future of this area.

More information about e-Energy’25 can be found here: https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2025/

* Call for Site Proposal (2026) *

The ACM e-Energy Steering Committee is calling for site proposals for the ACM e-Energy conference in 2026: https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2025/call-for-site.php

  • Site Proposal Deadline: January 23, 2025

* Call for Paper Winter-Round (2025) *

ACM e-Energy seeks high-quality papers at the intersection of computing and communication technologies with smart and sustainable energy systems. We welcome submissions describing conceptual advances, as well as advances in system design, implementation, and experimentation, and we explicitly welcome inter- or transdisciplinary work. ACM e-Energy is committed to a fair, timely, and thorough review process with sound and detailed feedback.

  • Abstract registration: January 17th, 2025
  • Paper submission: January 24th, 2025
  • Author notification: March 21st, 2025
  • Revision submission: April 11th, 2025
  • Revision notification: April 18th, 2025
More details can be found: https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2025/cfp.php

 

 

2. ACM BuildSys

BuildSys will host a highly selective, single-track forum for research on systems issues covering all aspects of the broadly defined built environment. Advances in the effective integration of networked sensors, building controls, and physical infrastructure are transforming our society, allowing the formation of unprecedented built environments and interlocking physical, social, and cyber challenges. Moreover, built environments, including buildings and critical urban infrastructure, account for over half of society’s energy consumption and are the mainstay of our nation’s economy, security, and health. As a result, there is a broad recognition that systems optimizing explicitly for the built environment are particularly important in improving our society, and represent the foundation for emerging “smart cities”. BuildSys is an ideal venue for researchers and practitioners developing and optimizing smart infrastructure systems driven by networked sensing, computing, and control functions.

 

 

3. EIR – Updates

ACM SIGENERGY Energy Informatics Review (EIR) welcomes articles on SIGEnergy’s topics, namely within the intersection of computing and communication technologies with smart and sustainable energy systems and the built infrastructure.

Check the current issues! We had a Special Issue for conference proceedings of the DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics, and the next issue will comprise many papers from the HOTCARBON workshop 2024.

New ideas in the field of Energy Informatics should be spread early and timely in the community, to foster discussions on assumptions and methods and help to trigger additional investigations. Specifically, papers with early evaluation or feasibility studies are highly encouraged. Additionally, ACM EIR seeks high-quality papers and subjects them to a profound review process. While innovation and timeliness are the major criteria for its acceptance, technical robustness, and readability will also be considered in the review process. Submit your file at https://sigenergy-eir.hotcrp.com. Reviewed papers accepted for publication are accessible through the ACM Digital Library. Additionally, editorial content, like thoughts and discussions on new research directions, is published with ACM EIR. Contact [email protected] for any questions and ideas.

 

 

4. SIGEnergy Graduate Seminar Series

ACM SIGEnergy Graduate Student Seminar is a monthly virtual seminar series in which graduate students present their ongoing work to peers and mentors around the world. The seminar series provides an opportunity for knowledge exchange in our community between our conferences, e-Energy and BuildSys.

 

 

5. Tin Hau: A Building Time-series Foundation Model

Tin Hau is a time-series foundation model for building load/energy forecasting, which embeds the knowledge of thousands of buildings and adopts an advanced training strategy. Thus, for different buildings with different contexts (e.g., dining areas, sports areas, etc.), Tin Hau can perform accurate forecasting with limited (i.e., few-shot forecasting) or even no knowledge (i.e., zero-shot forecasting) about the target building. The model is developed based on Tiny Time Mixer. The code is available at: https://github.com/Dylan0211/TinHau-forecasting

 

 

6. ACM SIGEnergy resource for energy-related data sets

The ACM SIGEnergy website has a Resources page with a variety of data sets that are freely available for use by the energy community. It is available at https://energy.acm.org/resources/

We invite you to share any energy-related data sets, models, and software we have not added to this page. Please send this information directly to Gabe Fierro at [email protected].

 

 

7. Posting additional information

If you would like to post additional information such as academic job opportunities, Ph.D. scholarships, or a new energy systems course, then please send me the details and I will include them in the next monthly newsletter. My email address is [email protected].

As always, the ACM SIGEnergy website has the latest information. We welcome you to peruse it https://energy.acm.org/

 

Shijia Pan,
Communications Director, ACM SIGEnergy