February 2025 ACM SIGEnergy Newsletter

Content

1. ACM eEnergy’25

2. ACM BuildSys

3. EIR – Updates

4. SIGEnergy Graduate Seminar Series

5. The 1st International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Energy Flexibility (CAEF) — Call for Paper

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

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/

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 the 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.

Seminar Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sigenergy-seminar/
Talk signup form: https://forms.gle/WmFLzdTk3iDtCbbt5
Join Seminar Google Group via this link: https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/sigenergy-graduate-student-seminar?hl=en

5. The 1st International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Energy Flexibility (CAEF) — Call for Paper

The 1st International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Energy Flexibility will be held in conjunction with the ACM E-Energy 2025 conference on the 17th of June 2025 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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 the 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, and learning-augmented algorithms;

* Computational aspects of flexibility markets: computation-aware flexibility market design, computational efficiency, algorithms for computing equilibria.

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

More details can be found at https://sites.google.com/utwente.nl/caef2025

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