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    CALL FOR PAPERS

    SCOPE-2020: 5th International Workshop
    on Science of Smart City Operations
    and Platforms Engineering

    (Co-located with CPS-IoT Week 2020 in Sydney, Australia)

    April 21, 2020 | https://cps-vo.org/group/SCOPE-20

    Theme: Data and Model-driven analysis and co-simulation of Smart Mobility and Energy

    Registration and Travel Details: https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cpsiot/cpsweek2020/index.html

    Paper Submission URL: https://scope2020.hotcrp.com/

    Workshop Date: April 21, 2020

    Important Dates:

    • Submission deadline: January 28, 2020
    • Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2020
    • Final paper submission deadline: February 26, 2020
    • Full paper submissions are peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers.

    Call for Papers:

    The problems of 'closing-the-loop' in smart city application areas are compounded due to the spatial and temporal scales of operation, heterogeneity, and complexity of the underlying physical systems, their interaction with socio-economic behaviors, and risks of cybersecurity and privacy. This year the smart cities workshop is focusing on the problems raised by the increasing integration of smart mobility and smart grid within our communities.

    What makes this problem concerning is that the advances in mobility (electrification, sharing and autonomy), electrification (microgrids and peer to peer energy transfer) are unfolding spontaneously, without considerations of any centralized control or plans of interoperability, which often results in unintended interactions leading to vulnerabilities in the cyber, physical as well as social domain. We may consider ride-sharing services as an example - while providing a new mode of transportation to many, widespread offerings of ride-sharing may lead to increased congestion as shown from studies conducted in San Francisco and New York City. Newly proposed fleets of electrified autonomous taxis might lead to millions of zero-occupancy vehicle miles traveled (VMT) with negative environmental impact and increase the dynamic load induced on the electric grid by the vehicles. Further, lack of system wide planning and protection can allow an adversary to lead the autonomous taxis into a congested area or create heavy electrical load on specific substations.

    At the same time, while vehicle-to-grid studies have been presented for over a decade now, many fundamental research questions still remain open. For example, both planning and operation services in today's power distribution grid are changing rapidly, almost at the same pace as the transportation industry is changing. Multitudes of new devices such as smart transformers, flexible loads, fast chargers, energy storage, and associated power electronic converters are being added to the grid. How the modern distribution grid with all of these new dynamic components is going to behave when integrated with new transportation loading profiles, in both longer and smaller time-horizons, is a big question.

    This workshop invites researchers in smart and connected communities, power system engineers, transportation engineers, control theorists, and data scientists together, to outline the challenges and possibilities for modeling and analyzing these multi-domain systems.

    Topics of Interest (but not limited to)

    • Handling Big Data generated by the integrated Mobility and Electricity Infrastructure.
    • Integrated co-simulation of city systems considering human behavior and urban planning.
    • Resilient Decentralized Control of the system: How do we build a resilient control system that can manage the challenges across electric grid and large number of autonomous electrified ride sharing vehicles?
    • Failures, Security Threats and Recovery considering the tight integration of transportation and electric grid considering the changing landscape of autonomy and ride sharing.
    • Equity, Fairness, and Social Impact of the rapid progression of integrated technologies and decision support systems.
    • Stability studies for distribution grid under highly fluctuating transportation loading profiles
    • Role of smart transformers and energy storage for transient stability and voltage stability of modern distribution grids
    • New control techniques for grid converters using robust control, adaptive control, and data-driven machine learning based control.
    • Novel machine learning techniques to optimize the services in mobility and energy domains.
    • Management and optimization of Electric Transit Vehicles.
    • Future application and problems in the area.

    Author Instructions

    • All submissions must follow ACM conference proceedings format. Please take a look at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
    • Papers should describe original work and be maximum six pages in length using the CPSWeek ACM format. Submissions can fall under one or more of the following categories: (1) initial and promising research results, (2) industrial case studies, (3) position statements with sufficient justification and rationale for the proposed idea(s). At least three workshop committee members will review all submitted papers. All papers will be published in the ACM digital library. Selected high quality papers will be considered for publication (after substantial extension) in the Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal.

    Submission URL:

    Organization committee:

    • Himanshu Neema (Vanderbilt University)
    • Sajal Das (Missouri Science and Technology)
    • Abhishek Dubey (Vanderbilt University)
    • Sokwoo Rhee (NIST)
    • Aranya Chakrabortty (NCSU) (PC Chair)
    • Subhadeep Chakraborthy (UTK)

    Summary of previous SCOPE workshops:

    The motivation for this workshop stems from the significant interest in this realm, and observing the increased participation of teams participating in the Global City Teams Challenge. The Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC), an initiative by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), part of US Department of Commerce, is designed to advance the incubation and deployment of CPS and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies within a smart city environment in cities around the world. The FY15 and 16 rounds of GCTC were highly successful with 150+ teams of more than 160 cities and over 350 companies and universities participating in smart city technology deployments in areas ranging from disaster resilience, to air quality, transportation management, health care, energy efficiency and more. FY17 GCTC Expo was held in summer 2017 in the US.

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