CfP: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Section Call for Papers: Resilience in Energy Industries

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Section Call for Papers: Resilience in Energy Industries - Recent Advances, Open Challenges, and Future Directions

Resilience is the capacity of critical infrastructure systems to proactively maintain a safe level of operational normalcy in response to anomalies, including threats of a malicious and unexpected nature. Threats to normal operation are those elements that destabilize control and communications system networks. These threats include human error and malicious human attacks, complex latencies and interdependencies. For instance, control systems need to provide greater human in the loop recognition based upon the roles and responsibilities of the individual. This ensures that the human interaction provides the required and most accurate state awareness information for the unique requirements of an individual formulating a judgment. In addition, control system performance indices are not just physics-based, but include event-based cyber security measures, as cyber exploitation can degrade systems and require some human response to mitigate. Ultimately, the control system architecture must engender a holistic design that includes all performance indices affecting the resilience of the infrastructure.

In particular, we look at the aspects that holistically shape resilience in understanding the multi-disciplinary nature of addressing these issues, which clearly require human, control, and cyber systems to address. We seek originally completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal. General topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Control Theory: intelligent, reconfigurable, optimal
• Control Framework: supervisory, multi-agent, distributed intelligence
• Sensor Architectures: embedded modeling and analysis, intelligence and agents, wireless control and determinism, multi-parameter integration and diversity
• Monitoring/Control Security: decoys, randomization, diversity, training and cognition, decision making, measurement
• Cyber Architecture: health indicators, defense optimization
• Data Fusion: data reduction, security characterization, data diversity, anomaly detection, response prioritization
• Computational Intelligence: machine learning, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, Bayesian belief networks
• Cyber-physical power and energy systems: real-time communication, protection, control, resilience, reliability, sustainability, efficiency
• Distributed intelligence: Failure/error tolerance and recovery, adaptable/flexible architectures, multi-level/agent systems, multi-sensor fusion, tele-presence, probabilistic behaviors, performance validation/verification, communications security

Manuscript Preparation and Submission

Follow the guidelines in "Information for Authors" in the IEEE- IES website:

http://www.ieee-ies.org/pubs/transactions on-industrial-informatics.

Please submit your manuscript in electronic form through Manuscript Central web site:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii

On the submitting page #1 in popup menu of manuscript type, select: SS on Resilience in Energy Industries- Recent Advances, Open Challenges, and Future Directions.

Submissions to this Special Section must represent original material that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal. Regular manuscript length is 8 pages, additional 4 pages may be allowed for a fee.

Note: The recommended papers for the section are subject to final approval by the Editor-in-Chief. Some papers may be published outside the special section, at the EIC discretion.

Manuscript Submission: March 31, 2018
Expected publication date (tentative): November, 2018

Guest Editors:

• Prof. Milos Manic, Computer Science Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, misko@ieee.org
• Prof. Alfonso Damiano, Department of Elec. & Computer Eng., University of Cagliari, Italy, alfio@diee.unica.it
• Dr. Craig Rieger, Resilient Ctrl and Inst. Sys., Idaho National Lab., USA, Craig.Rieger@inl.gov
• Dr. Thomas Carroll, Secure Cyber Systems, Pacific Northwest Nat. Lab, USA, Thomas.Carroll@pnnl.gov
• Dr. Kevin Schultz, Res. and Expl. Dev., Johns Hopkins APL, USA, Kevin.Schultz@jhuapl.edu

Craig G. Rieger, PhD, PE
Chief Control Systems Research Engineer
PO Box 1625
Idaho Falls, ID 83415-3545
Phone: 208-526-4136 FAX: 208-526-2190
Mobile: 208-851-8839 Web: recis.inl.gov