Contributions are sought in (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- Adaptive and dynamic controls for energy management (production, distribution and use)
- Design and optimization of large-scale heterogeneous architectures for reliable and real-time communication
- ICT infrastructures for energy management and smart applications.
- Pervasive and friendly user interfaces for user awareness on energy consumption and context-based system usage.
- Standards and interoperability for energy efficient and smart embedded system infrastructures.
- Systems-thinking, multi-stakeholder, and multi-disciplinary design and construction of sustainable and energy-efficient facilities.
- Analytic, simulation and prototype-based approaches to assess environmental performance of buildings, and allowing optimization and trade-off assessment based on multi-criteria constraints.
- Model-based engineering for energy-efficient embedded system infrastructure, including controls, software components and execution platform.
- Application-specific methods for design and implementation of energy-efficient infrastructures, including building applications and green vehicles.
- New business opportunities