Technical Sessions

S1-1: Smart Grid Network Resilience

Day: Tuesday, 4 November
Room: C
Chair: Hans-Peter Schwefel (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien; Aalborg University, Austria)

10:20 Mitigating Cascading Failures in Interdependent Power Grids and Communication Networks
  Marzieh Parandehgheibi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA), Eytan Modiano (MIT, USA) and David Hay (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
   
10:40 Recipes for Faster Failure Recovery in Smart Grid Communication Networks
  Oana Balmau (EPFL, Switzerland), Dacfey Dzung (ABB Switzerland Ltd. & Corporate Research, Switzerland) and Yvonne-Anne Pignolet (ABB Corporate Research, Dättwil, Switzerland)
   
11:00 Recovery From Link Failures in a Smart Grid Communication Network using OpenFlow
  Daniel Gyllstrom (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA), Nicholas Braga (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) and Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
   
11:20 Application of Economical 920-MHz Band Wireless Communication to Power Routing in HVDC Networks
  Yuichi Kado (Kyoto Institute of Technology & Graduate School of Science and Technology, Japan), Yasutaka Kawamoto (Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. & Japan, Japan), Akihiro Kobayashi (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan), Makoto Kubomi (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan) and Yuma Nogami (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
   
11:40 Narrowband Power Line Communications Evaluation in Complex Distribution Networks
  Alfredo Sanz (University of Zaragoza & Atmel Spain SAU, Spain), Pedro Jose Piñero (Atmel Corporation, Spain), José Miguel Idiago (Atmel Corporation, Spain), Santiago Esteban Zorita (Atmel Corporation, Spain) and Jose-Ignacio Garcia-Nicolas (University of Zaragoza & Atmel Spain SAU, Spain)
   

S1-2: Microgrid Management

Day: Tuesday, 4 November
Room: C
Chair: Giorgio M. Vitetta (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

13:30 Evaluating Microgrid Management and Control with an Implementable Energy Management System
  Wenbo Shi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Eun-Kyu Lee (UCLA, USA), Daoyuan Yao (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Rui Huang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Chi-Cheng Chu (University of California - Los Angeles, USA) and Rajit Gadh (University of California - Los Angeles, USA)
   
13:50 A Distributed Load Scheduling Mechanism for Micro Grids
  Jânio Monteiro (University of Algarve, Portugal), Jorge Eduardo (ISE, University of Algarve, Portugal), Pedro Cardoso (ISE, University of Algarve, Portugal) and Jorge Semião (ISE, University of Algarve, Portugal)
   
14:10 REST Assured, We Manage your Microgrid
  Alessandro Montanari (ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland), Yvonne-Anne Pignolet (ABB Corporate Research, Dättwil, Switzerland) and Ettore Ferranti (ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland)
   
14:30 A Novel Distributed Algorithm for Power Loss Minimizing in Smart Grid
  Chao Wei (Tohoku University, Japan), Zubair Fadlullah (Tohoku University, Japan), Ivan Stojmenovic (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)
   
14:50 Real-Time Energy Management for Cooperative Microgrids with Renewable Energy Integration
  Katayoun Rahbar (National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore), Chin Choy Chai (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) and Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
   

S1-3: Grid Data Collection and Reporting

Day: Tuesday, 4 November
Room: A
Chair: Kui Wu (University of Victoria, Canada)

15:40 Deadline-aware Concentration of Synchrophasor Data: An Optimal Stopping Approach
  Miao He (Texas Tech University, USA) and Junshan Zhang (Arizona State University, USA)
   
16:00 Scheduling Data Access in Smart Grid Networks Utilizing Context Information
  Mislav Findrik (FTW Wien, Austria), Jesper Grønbæk (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria) and Rasmus Olsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
   
16:20 Secure Data Collection in Constrained Tree-Based Smart Grid Environments
  Haiming Jin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Suleyman Uludag (The University of Michigan - Flint, USA), King-Shan Lui (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
   
16:40 Periodic Data Reporting Strategies for IEEE 802.11s-based Smart Grid AMI Networks
  Nico Saputro (Florida International University, USA) and Kemal Akkaya (Southern Illinois University, USA)
   
17:00 The Pulse Coupled Phasor Measurement Units
  Lorenzo Ferrari (University of California, Davis, USA), Reinhard Gentz (University of California, Davis, USA), Anna Scaglione (University of California, Davis, USA) and Masood Parvania (University of California, Davis, USA)
   

S1-4: Smart Metering Infrastructure Networks

Day: Wednesday, 5 November
Room: C
Chair: Jan Markendahl (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

10:20 Real-time smart metering with reduced communication and bounded error
  Jarmo Lundén (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland) and Stefan Werner (Aalto University, Finland)
   
10:40 PRIME v1.4 Evolution: A Future Proof of Reality Beyond Metering
  Alberto Sendin (Iberdrola, Spain), Il Han Kim (Texas Instruments, USA), Simone Bois (Dora Spa, STMicroelectronics Group, Italy), Andres Munoz (ATMEL, Spain) and Asier Llano (ZIV CG Automation, Spain)
   
11:00 Reengineering GSM/GPRS Towards a Dedicated Network for Massive Smart Metering
  German Corrales Madueño (Aalborg University, Denmark), Čedomir Stefanović (Aalborg University & University of Novi Sad, Denmark) and Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
   
11:20 Cost-Efficient Data Aggregation Point Placement for Advanced Metering Infrastructure
  Fariba Aalamifar (University of British Columbia, Canada), Ghasem Naddafzadeh Shirazi (University of British Columbia, Canada), Moslem Noori (University of Alberta, Canada) and Lutz Lampe (University of British Columbia, Canada)
   
11:40 Voltage and Frequency Measuring Plug as part of smart grids metering system
  Pavlos Dimitriou (Technical University of Vienna, Austria), Thomas Leber (Technical University of Vienna, Austria), Nicole Nagele (Technical University of Vienna, Austria), Lukas Temmel (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) and Christian Tessarek (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
   

S1-5: Access Network Performance

Day: Wednesday, 5 November
Room: C
Chair: Konstantinos V. Katsaros (University College London, United Kingdom)

13:30 An Enhanced Random Access Mechanism for Smart Grid M2M Communications in WiMAX Networks
  Md Mashud Hyder (The University of Newcastle, Australia), Reduan H Khan (The University of Newcastle, Australia) and Kaushik Mahata (University of New Castle, Australia)
   
13:50 Random Access Performance of a WiMAX Network for M2M Communications in the Smart Grid
  Reduan H Khan (The University of Newcastle, Australia) and Kaushik Mahata (University of New Castle, Australia)
   
14:10 Coverage and Capacity Analysis of Wireless M2M Technologies for Smart Distribution Grid Services
  Christian Hägerling (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Christoph Ide (TU Dortmund University, Germany) and Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University & Communication Networks Institute, Germany)
   
14:30 Queuing Analysis for Smart Grid Communications in Wireless Access Networks
  Obada Al Khatib (The University of Sydney, Australia), Wibowo Hardjawana (The University of Sydney, Australia) and Branka Vucetic (The University of Sydney, Australia)
   
14:50 Performance Evaluation of a Hybrid of Public and Private Smart Grid Wireless Access Networks
  Obada Al Khatib (The University of Sydney, Australia), Wibowo Hardjawana (The University of Sydney, Australia) and Branka Vucetic (The University of Sydney, Australia)
   

S1-6: Network QoS and Reliability

Day: Wednesday, 5 November
Room: B
Chair: Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University & Communication Networks Institute, Germany)

15:40 Robust and Real-time Communication on Heterogeneous Networks for Smart Distribution Grid
  Kubilay Demir (TU Darmstadt, Germany), Daniel Germanus (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) and Neeraj Suri (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany)
   
16:00 Low Latency Communication Infrastructure for Synchrophasor Applications in Distribution Networks
  Konstantinos V. Katsaros (University College London, United Kingdom), Binxu Yang (University College London, United Kingdom), Wei Koong Chai (University College London, United Kingdom) and George Pavlou (University College London, United Kingdom)
   
16:20 Optimal Resource Allocation for Smart Grid Applications in High Traffic Wireless Networks
  Robert Webster (University of Sydney, Australia), Kumudu S Munasinghe (University of Canberra, Australia) and Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia)
   
16:40 Cross-Layer Network Lifetime Maximization for Hybrid Sensor Networks
  Kainan Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) and Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
   
17:00 Facility Networking with IP over RS485: Packet Control for Master-Slave Cascaded Networks
  Hideya Ochiai (The University of Tokyo, Japan), Hiroki Nakagami (The University of Tokyo, Japan), Yuuichi Teranishi (NICT & Osaka University, Japan) and Hiroshi Esaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
   

S1-7: Smart Grid Infrastructure Networks

Day: Thursday, 6 November
Room: C
Chair: Jan Markendahl (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

10:20 Virtualized and Self-configurable Utility Communications Enabled by Software-Defined Networks
  Young Jin Kim (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA), Keqiang He (University of Wisconsin, USA), Marina Thottan (Bell Labs, USA) and Jayant Deshpande (Bell-Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
   
10:40 Software-Defined Networking for Smart Grid Communications: Applications, Challenges and Advantages
  Nils Dorsch (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Fabian Kurtz (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Hanno Georg (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Christian Hägerling (TU Dortmund University, Germany) and Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University & Communication Networks Institute, Germany)
   
11:00 Generating Realistic Smart Grid Communication Topologies Based on Real-Data
  Thomas Hartmann (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg), Francois Fouquet (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg), Jacques Klein (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg), Yves Le Traon (University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg), Alexander Pelov (Institut Mines-Telecom / Telecom Bretagne, France), Laurent Toutain (Telecom Bretagne, France) and Tanguy Ropitault (Telecom Bretagne, France)
   
11:20 Combing Smart Grid with Community Clouds: next generation integrated service platform
  Leila Sharifi (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), Felix Freitag (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) and Luís Veiga (Instituto Superior Técnico - UTL / INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal)
   
11:40 Feasibility study of utilizing mobile communications for smart grid applications in urban area
  Seppo Horsmanheimo (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland), Niwas Maskey (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland) and Lotta Tuomimäki (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)
   

S1-8: Powerline Communication Technologies

Day: Thursday, 6 November
Room: C
Chair: Alexander Pelov (Institut Mines-Telecom / Telecom Bretagne, France)

13:30 Evaluation of RPL for Medium Voltage Power Line Communication
  Oana Balmau (EPFL, Switzerland), Dacfey Dzung (ABB Switzerland Ltd. & Corporate Research, Switzerland), Abdulkadir Karaağaç (ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland), Vukasin Nesovic (ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland), Aleksandar Paunovic (ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland), Yvonne-Anne Pignolet (ABB Corporate Research, Dättwil, Switzerland) and Niloufar Alipour Tehrani (ETHZ, Switzerland)
   
13:50 Doing It Right - Recommendations for RPL in PLC-based Networks for the Smart Grid
  Tanguy Ropitault (Telecom Bretagne, France), Alejandro Lampropulos (Institut TELECOM / TELECOM Bretagne, France), Alexander Pelov (Institut Mines-Telecom / Telecom Bretagne, France), Ramanuja Vedantham (Texas Instruments Inc., USA), Philippe Chiummiento (ITRON, France) and Laurent Toutain (Telecom Bretagne, France)
   
14:10 ColorCast: Deterministic Broadcast in Powerline Networks with Uncertainties
  Yvonne-Anne Pignolet (ABB Corporate Research, Dättwil, Switzerland), Stefan Schmid (T-Labs & TU Berlin, Germany) and Gilles Tredan (LAAS-CNRS, France)
   
14:30 Network Simulation for Powerline Protocols with Direct Code Execution Applied to DLC®-3000 SFN
  Jörg Deutschmann (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Andreas M. Lehmann (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Johannes Hampel (iAd GmbH, Germany) and Johannes Huber (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
   
14:50 Narrowband power line communications for medium voltage smart grids
  Giovanni Artale (Università di Palermo, Italy), Antonio Cataliotti (University of Palermo, Italy), Valentina Cosentino (Università di Palermo, Italy), Dario Di Cara (National Research Council, Institute of Intelligent System for Automation, Italy), Riccardo Fiorelli (STMicroelectronics, Italy), Salvatore Guaiana (Università di Palermo, Italy), Nicola Panzavecchia (National Research Council, Italy) and Giovanni Tinè (National Research Council, Italy)
   

S1-9: Grid Communication Techniques

Day: Thursday, 6 November
Room: C
Chair: Masahiro Morikura (Kyoto University, Japan)

15:40 Optimal Wireless Energy Charging Policy for a Mobile Node in Smart Grid Environment
  Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Yang Zhang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Ping Wang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea)
   
16:00 Cooperative Closed-loop MIMO Selective Transmissions in a HV Environment
  Olufemi James Oyedapo (University of Poitiers, France), Baptiste Vrigneau (University of Rennes 1 & INRIA/IRISA CAIRN, France) and Rodolphe Vauzelle (University of Poitiers, France)
   
16:20 Smart Satellites in Smart Grids
  Donald Chang (Spatial Digital Systems, USA), Joe Lee (SDS, Inc., USA) and Tzer-Hso Lin (SDS, USA)
   
16:40 Statistical Analysis of Broadband Underground Medium Voltage Channels for PLC Applications
  Fabio Versolatto (University of Udine & WiTiKee Srl, Italy), Andrea M Tonello (University of Udine & WiTiKee srl, Italy), Carlo Tornelli (RSE, Italy) and Davide Della Giustina (A2A Reti Elettriche SpA, Italy)
   
17:00 A Novel Statistical Approach of Path Loss Mapping for Indoor Broadband Power Line Communications
  Mohammad Heggo (University of Liverpool, Egypt), Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom), Yi Huang (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) and Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
   
Day: Tuesday, 4 November
Room: C
Chair: György Dán (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
 
10:20 Cyber Security Analysis of Power Networks by Hypergraph Cut Algorithms
  Yutaro Yamaguchi (University of Tokyo, Japan), Anna Ogawa (Keio University, Japan), Akiko Takeda (The University of Tokyo, Japan) and Satoru Iwata (University of Tokyo, Japan)
   
10:40 Identification of "Unobservable" Cyber Data Attacks on Power Grids
  Meng Wang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Pengzhi Gao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Scott G. Ghiocel (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Joe H. Chow (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Bruce Fardanesh (New York Power Authority, USA), George Stefopoulos (New York Power Authority, USA) and Michael Razanousky (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, USA)
   
11:00 Optimal Malicious Attack Construction and Robust Detection in Smart Grid Cyber Security Analysis
  Jinping Hao (University of Bristol, United Kingdom), Robert J Piechocki (University of Bristol, United Kingdom), Dritan Kaleshi (University of Bristol, United Kingdom), Woon Hau Chin (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, United Kingdom) and Zhong Fan (Toshiba Research Europe, United Kingdom)
   
11:20 On Detection of Cyber Attacks Against Voltage Control in Distribution Power Grids
  Y. Isozaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Shinya Yoshizawa (Waseda University, Japan), Yu Fujimoto (Waseda University, Japan), Hideaki Ishii (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Isao Ono (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Takashi Onoda (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan) and Yasuhiro Hayashi (Waseda University, Japan)
   
11:40 Controller-Aware False Data Injection Against Programmable Logic Controllers
  Stephen McLaughlin (Narus Inc, USA) and Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA)
   

S2-2: Privacy-preserving data collection

Day: Tuesday, 4 November
Room: A
Chair: Sandro Etalle (Techincal University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

13:30 Load Hiding of Household's Power Demand
  Dominik Egarter (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Christoph Prokop (Graz University of Technology & Lakeside Labs GmbH, Austria) and Wilfried Elmenreich (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
   
13:50 A Privacy-Friendly Game-Theoretic Distributed Scheduling System for Domestic Appliances
  Cristina E.M. Rottondi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Antimo Barbato (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Giacomo Verticale (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
   
14:10 Privacy Preserving Disclosure of Authenticated Energy Usage Data
  Daisuke Mashima (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA) and Arnab Roy (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA)
   
14:30 Privacy-Enhanced Bi-Directional Communication in the Smart Grid using Trusted Computing
  Andrew J Paverd (University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Andrew Martin (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) and Ian Brown (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
   
14:50 Privacy-preserving Data Sharing in Smart Grid Systems
  Lei Yang (The University of Kansas, USA), Hao Xue (University of Kansas, USA) and Fengjun Li (The University of Kansas, USA)
   

S2-3: Traffic monitoring and attack detection

Day: Wednesday, 5 November
Room: A
Chair: Abdallah K. Farraj (University of Toronto, Canada)

10:20 A First Look at Machine-to-Machine Power Grid Network Traffic
  Sang Shin Jung (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), David Formby (Georgia Tech, USA), Carson Day (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) and Raheem Beyah (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
   
10:40 On the Practicality of Detecting Anomalies with Encrypted Traffic in AMI
  Robin Berthier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), David Urbina (UT Dallas, USA), Alvaro A. Cárdenas (University of Texas, Dallas, USA), Michael Guerrero (University of Texas, Dallas, USA), Ulrich Herberg (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA), Jorjeta Jetcheva (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA), Daisuke Mashima (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA), Jun Huh (Honeywell, USA) and Rakesh B. Bobba (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
   
11:00 Real-time Detection of Packet Drop Attacks on Synchrophasor Data
  Seemita Pal (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Biplab Sikdar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) and Joe H. Chow (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
   
11:20 Peekaboo: A Gray Hole Attack on Encrypted SCADA Communication using Traffic Analysis
  Nunzio Torrisi (Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil), Ognjen Vuković (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), György Dán (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) and Stefan Hagdahl (Saab AB, Sweden)
   
11:40 A Hybrid Network IDS for Protective Digital Relays in the Power Transmission Grid
  Georgia Koutsandria (University of California, Davis, USA), Vishak Muthukumar (University of California, Davis, USA), Masood Parvania (University of California, Davis, USA), Sean Peisert (University of California, Davis, USA), Chuck McParland (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA) and Anna Scaglione (University of California, Davis, USA)
   

S2-4: Key management and authentication

Day: Wednesday, 5 November
Room: A
Chair: Robin Berthier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

15:40 PALDA: Efficient Privacy-preserving Authentication for Lossless Data Aggregation in Smart Grids
  Shinyoung Cho (The State University of New York (SUNY) Korea, Korea), Hongwei Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China) and Bong Jun Choi (The State University of New York (SUNY) Korea & Stony Brook University, Korea)
   
16:00 Portunes: Privacy-Preserving Fast Authentication for Dynamic Electric Vehicle Charging
  Hongyang Li (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), György Dán (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) and Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois, USA)
   
16:20 Hierarchical Key Management for Multi-resolution Load Data Representation
  Christian David Peer (Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria), Dominik Engel (Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria) and Stephen Wicker (Cornell University, USA)
   
16:40 PUF and ID-Based Key Distribution Security Framework for Advanced Metering Infrastructures
  Vahe Seferian (American University of Beirut, Lebanon), Rouwaida Kanj (American University of Bierut, Lebanon), Ali Chehab (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) and Ayman Kayssi (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
   
17:00 Roaming Electric Vehicle Charging and Billing: an Anonymous Multi-User Protocol
  Mustafa Asan Mustafa (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom), Ning Zhang (University of Manchester, United Kingdom), Georgios Kalogridis (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom) and Zhong Fan (Toshiba Research Europe, United Kingdom)
   

S2-5: Cyber-physical security

Day: Thursday, 6 November
Room: A
Chair: Daisuke Mashima (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA)

10:20 Smart Grid Security: Deriving Informed Decisions from Cyber Attack Game Analysis
  Rattikorn Hewett (Texas Tech University, USA), Sudeeptha Rudrapattana (Texas Tech University, USA) and Phongphun Kijsanayothin (Texas Tech University, USA)
   
10:40 Covert Channel Communication Through Physical Interdependencies in Cyber-Physical Infrastructures
  Luis Garcia (University of Miami, USA), Henry Senyondo (University of Miami, USA), Stephen McLaughlin (Narus Inc, USA) and Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA)
   
11:00 A Game-Theoretic Control Approach to Mitigate Cyber Switching Attacks in Smart Grid Systems
  Abdallah K. Farraj (University of Toronto, Canada), Eman M. Hammad (University of Toronto, Canada), Ashraf Al Daoud (University of Toronto, Canada) and Deepa Kundur (University of Toronto, Canada)
   
11:20 Performance Evaluation of Flocking-Based Distributed Cyber-Physical Control for Smart Grid
  Abdallah K. Farraj (University of Toronto, Canada), Eman M. Hammad (University of Toronto, Canada), Jin Wei (University of Toronto, Canada), Deepa Kundur (University of Toronto, Canada) and Karen Butler-Purry (Texas A&M University, USA)
   
11:40 A Physical Overlay Framework for Insider Threat Mitigation of Power System Devices
  David Formby (Georgia Tech, USA), Sang Shin Jung (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Seth Walters (Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA) and Raheem Beyah (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
   

S2-6: AMI and demand response

Day: Thursday, 6 November
Room: A
Chair: Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA)

13:30 Trusted Neighborhood Discovery in Critical Infrastructures
  Norman Göttert (Fraunhofer SIT, Germany), Nicolai Kuntze (Fraunhofer SIT, Germany), Carsten Rudolph (Fraunhofer SIT, Germany) and Khan Ferdous Wahid (Fraunhofer SIT, Germany)
   
13:50 Efficient Generation and Distribution of CRLs for IEEE 802.11s-based Smart Grid AMI Networks
  Kemal Akkaya (Southern Illinois University, USA), Khaled Rabieh (Tennessee Technological University, USA), Mohamed M E A Mahmoud (Tennessee Tech University, USA) and Samet Tonyali (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA)
   
14:10 A Risk Assessment Tool for Advanced Metering Infrastructures
  Tawfeeq Shawly (Purdue University, USA), Jun Liu (Purdue University, USA), Nathan Burow (Purdue University, USA), Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University, USA), Robin Berthier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Rakesh B. Bobba (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
   
14:30 OpenADR 2.0 Deployment Architectures: Options and Implications
  Ulrich Herberg (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA), Daisuke Mashima (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA), Jorjeta Jetcheva (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA) and Sanam Mirzazad-Barijough (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA)
   
14:50 A Non-convex Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers Heuristic for Optimal Power Flow
  Seungil You (California Institute of Technology, USA) and Qiuyu Peng (California Institute of Technology, USA)
   

S3-1: Electric Vehicles

Day: Tuesday, 4 November
Room: B
Chair: Tomaso Erseghe (University of Padova, Italy)

10:20 Queueing Network Models for Electric Vehicle Charging Station with Battery Swapping
  Xiaoqi Tan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), Bo Sun (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) and Danny H. K. Tsang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
   
10:40 Online Reservation and Deferral of EV Charging Tasks to Reduce Energy Use Variability in Smart Grids
  Muhammad Abdullah Adnan (University of California, San Diego, USA), Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy (IBM Research, India) and Rajesh Gupta (University of Calfornia San Deigo, USA)
   
11:00 Reducing Communication Requirements for Electric Vehicle Charging using Vehicle-Originating-Signals
  Victor del Razo (Technische Universität München, Germany), Christoph Goebel (Technical University Munich, Germany) and Hans-Arno Jacobsen (Technical University Munich, Germany)
   
11:20 Optimal Charging Operation of Battery Swapping Stations with QoS Guarantee
  Bo Sun (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), Xiaoqi Tan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) and Danny H. K. Tsang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
   
11:40 Critical slowing-down as indicator of approach to the loss of stability
  Dmitry Podolsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) and Konstantin Turitsyn (MIT, Department for Mechanical Engineering, USA)
   

S3-2: Power Flow Analysis

Day: Tuesday, 4 November
Room: B
Chair: Taha Selim Ustun (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)

13:30 A Distributed Algorithm for Fast Optimal Power Flow Regulation in Smart Grids
  Tomaso Erseghe (University of Padova, Italy)
   
13:50 Architectural Design and Load Flow Study of Power Flow Routers
  Junhao Lin (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Victor O. K. Li (University of Hong Kong, P.R. China), Ka-Cheong Leung (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Albert Y.S. Lam (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
   
14:10 Role of Communication on the Convergence Rate of Fully Distributed DC Optimal Power Flow
  Javad Mohammadi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Gabriela Hug (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) and Soummya Kar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
   
14:30 Optimal Power Flow for AC-DC Networks
  Shahab Bahrami (University of British Columbia, Canada), Vincent W.S. Wong (University of British Columbia, Canada) and Juri Jatskevich (University of British Columbia, Canada)
   
14:50 Comparison of a primal and a dual decomposition for distributed MPC in smart districts
  Peter Pflaum (GIPSA-Lab & Schneider Electric, France), Mazen Alamir (GIPSA-Lab, France) and Mohamed Yacine Lamoudi (Schneider Electric, France)
   

S3-3: Power System Automation and Control

Day: Tuesday, 4 November
Room: B
Chair: Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA)

15:40 Development of Autonomous Power Electronics Products with Communication Middleware
  Fumiaki Kanayama (Toshiba Corporation, Japan), Yasuyuki Nishibayashi (Toshiba Corporation, Japan), Yuki Yonezawa (Keio University, Japan) and Yusuke Doi (Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corporation, Japan)
   
16:00 Using IEDScout Software for Managing Multivendor IEC61850 IEDs in Substation Automation Systems
  Abdulrahman Hadbah (Victoria University, Australia), Taha Selim Ustun (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) and Akhtar Kalam (Victoria University, Australia)
   
16:20 Voltage and frequency control of islanded microgrids: a plug-and-play approach
  Stefano Riverso (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy), Fabio Sarzo (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy) and Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy)
   
16:40 Plug-and-play decentralized frequency regulation for power networks with FACTS devices
  Stefano Riverso (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy), Fabio Sarzo (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy) and Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy)
   
17:00 Dynamic Maintenance Scheduling for Power Systems Incorporating Hurricane Effects
  Ali Arab (University of Houston, USA), Eylem Tekin (University of Houston, USA), Amin Khodaei (University of Denver, USA), Suresh Khator (University of Houston, USA) and Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
   

S3-4: Energy Storage

Day: Wednesday, 5 November
Room: B
Chair: Hiroaki Kawashima (Kyoto University, Japan)

10:20 An Analysis of Energy Storage and Regulation
  Dariush Fooladivanda (University of Waterloo, Canada), Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo, Canada) and Siddharth Garg (University of Waterloo, Canada)
   
10:40 Meeting Inelastic Demand in Systems with Storage and Renewable Sources
  Natarajan Gautam (Texas A&M University, USA), Yunjian Xu (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) and Jeremy Bradley (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
   
11:00 Collaborative Placement and Sharing of Storage Resources in the Smart Grid
  Lazaros Gkatzikis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), George Iosifidis (CERTH & University of Thessaly, Greece), Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business and CERTH & CERTH, Greece) and Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA)
   
11:20 Joint Supply, Demand, and Energy Storage Management Towards Microgrid Cost Minimization
  Sun Sun (University of Toronto, Canada), Min Dong (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada) and Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada)
   
11:40 Real-Time Energy Storage Management: Finite-Time Horizon Approach
  Tianyi Li (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada) and Min Dong (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
   

S3-5: Integration of Renewable Power Resources

Day: Wednesday, 5 November
Room: B
Chair: Nikolaos Gatsis (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

13:30 Short Term Cloud Coverage Prediction using Ground Based All Sky Imager
  Shanhui Sun (Siemens Corporation, Corporate Technology, USA), Jan Ernst (Siemens Corporation, Corporate Technology, USA), Archana Sapkota (Aware Inc, USA), Eberhard Ritzhaupt-Kleissl (Siemens AG & Energy Sector, Germany), Jeremy Wiles (Energy Sector, Germany), Joachim Bamberger (Siemens, Germany) and Terrence Chen (Siemens Corporate Research, USA)
   
13:50 TESLA: Taylor Expanded Solar Analog Forecasting
  Bengu Akyurek (University of California - San Diego, USA), Alper Sinan Akyurek (University of California - San Diego, USA), Jan Kleissl (UC San DIego, USA) and Tajana Simunic Rosing (UCSD, USA)
   
14:10 Optimal Energy Management For Building Microgrid With Constrained Renewable Energy Utilization
  Hieu Trung Nguyen (INRS-EMT, Canada) and Long Bao Le (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)
   
14:30 Coordinated Dispatch of Renewable Energy Sources and HVAC Load Using Stochastic Programming
  Duong Tung Nguyen (INRS, Canada), Hieu Trung Nguyen (INRS-EMT, Canada) and Long Bao Le (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)
   
14:50 Buying Random yet Correlated Wind Power
  Wenyuan Tang (University of Southern California, USA) and Rahul Jain (University of Southern California, USA)
   

S3-6: Building and Community Energy Management

Day: Thursday, 6 November
Room: B
Chair: Harshad Khadilkar (IBM Research, India)

10:20 Lighting in the building: a DC smart grid
  Steffen Thielemans (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), Dario Di Zenobio (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy) and Kris Steenhaut (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
   
10:40 DC Picogrids as Power Backups for Office Buildings
  Harshad Khadilkar (IBM Research, India), Vikas Chandan (IBM Research, India), Sandeep Kalra (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA), Sunil K Ghai (IBM Research - India, India), Zainul Charbiwala (IBM, India), Tanuja Ganu (IBM Research - India, India), Rajesh Kunnath (Radio Studio, India), Lim Ming (Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam) and Deva P. Seetharam (Independent, India)
   
11:00 A Distributed Hierarchical Architecture for Community-based Power Balancing
  Rodrigo Verschae (Kyoto University, Japan), Hiroaki Kawashima (Kyoto University, Japan), Takekazu Kato (Kyoto University, Japan) and Takashi Matsuyama (Kyoto University, Japan)
   
11:20 Household Power Consumption Simulator with Compact Representation of Occupant Behaviors
  Yoshiaki Sakakura (Denso IT Laboratory, INC., Japan)
   
11:40 Risk-Aware Energy Procurement with Renewable Energy and Storage
  Subhash Lakshminarayana (Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore), Lei Yang (Arizona State University, USA), H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA), Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) & Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) and Junshan Zhang (Arizona State University, USA)
   

S3-7: Special Session: Co-Simulation for Smart Grids

Day: Thursday, 6 November
Room: B
Chair: Sebastian Rohjans (OFFIS, Germany)

13:30 Extensible Co-Simulation Framework for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Testing
  Mario Faschang (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Martin Nöhrer (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria), Johannes Stöckl (AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria) and Friederich Kupzog (AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)
   
13:50 Implementation of Agent-based Power Flow Coordination in AC/DC Grids using Co-Simulation Platform
  Davood Babazadeh (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Mohammad Nazari (KTH The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Muhammed Hassan Fidai (The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Moustafa Chenine (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Mehrdad Ghandhari (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) and Lars Nordström (Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden)
   
14:10 Integrated Smart Grid Simulations for Generic Automation Architectures with RT-LAB and mosaik
  Martin Büscher (OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany), Arno Claassen (OFFIS, Germany), Matthias Kube (OFFIS, Germany), Sebastian Lehnhoff (University of Oldenburg & OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany), Klaus Piech (OFFIS, Germany), Sebastian Rohjans (OFFIS, Germany), Stefan Scherfke (OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology, Germany), Cornelius Steinbrink (OFFIS, Germany), Jorge Velásquez (OFFIS, Germany), Francois Tempez (OPAL-RT Europe, France) and Yahia Bouzid (OPAL-RT Europe, France)
   
14:30 A Distributed Optimal Energy Management Strategy for Microgrids
  Wenbo Shi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Xiaorong Xie (Tsinghua University, P.R. China), Chi-Cheng Chu (University of California - Los Angeles, USA) and Rajit Gadh (University of California - Los Angeles, USA)
   
14:50 Testbed Evaluations of a Controlled-Delivery Power Grid
  Roberto Rojas-Cessa (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Vinitmadhukar Sahasrabudhe (NJIT, USA), Eugene J Miglio, IV (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Divya Balineni (NJIT, USA), Justin Kurylo (NJIT, USA) and Haim Grebel (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
   

S3-8: Power Distribution Networks

Day: Thursday, 6 November
Room: B
Chair: Georges Kariniotakis (MINES ParisTech; Head of Renewable Energies; Smartgrids group, France)

15:40 Signal-Anticipating in Local Voltage Control in Distribution Systems
  Jeries Shihadeh (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA), Seungil You (California Institute of Technology, USA) and Lijun Chen (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
   
16:00 Decentralized Stochastic Programming for Real and Reactive Power Management in Distribution Systems
  Mohammadhafez Bazrafshan (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) and Nikolaos Gatsis (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
   
16:20 Power Line Communication Network for a Customer-End AC Grid in an LVDC Distribution System
  Antti Pinomaa (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland), Jero Ahola (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland), Antti Kosonen (Lappeenranta University of Technology & Institute of Energy Technology, Finland) and Pasi Nuutinen (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland)
   
16:40 Optimization of the power quality monitor number in smart grid
  Yuxin Wan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China), Junwei Cao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China), Huaying Zhang (Shenzhen Power Supply Co. Ltd, P.R. China), Zhengguo Zhu (Shenzhen Power Supply Co. Ltd., P.R. China) and Senjing Yao (Shenzhen Power Supply Co. Ltd., P.R. China)
   
17:00 Power-Efficient Operation of Wireless Heterogeneous Networks using Smart Grids
  Mingyi Hong (University of Minnesota, USA) and Hao Zhu (University of Illinois, USA)
   

S4-1 Renewable Energy

Day: Tuesday, 4 November
Room: D
Chair: Nikolaos Gatsis (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

10:20 Electric Vehicle Charging Scheduling Under Local Renewable Energy and Stochastic Grid Power Price
  Tian Zhang (Tsinghua University & Shandong University, P.R. China), Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China), Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA) and Zhigang Cao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
   
10:40 Hybrid Renewable Energy Investment in Microgrid
  Hao Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
   
11:00 Optimal Payment Sharing Mechanism For Renewable Energy Aggregation
  Farshad Harirchi (Colorado School Of Mines, USA), Tyrone Vincent (Colorado School of Mines, USA) and Dejun Yang (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
   
11:20 Growth in Renewable Generation and its Effect on Demand-Side Management
  Jay Taneja (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
   
11:40 Quantifying the Benefits of Extending Electric Vehicle Charging Deadlines with Solar Generation
  Omid Ardakanian (University of Waterloo, Canada), Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo, Canada) and Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo, Canada)
   

S4-2: Demand Response

Day: Tuesday, 4 November
Room: D
Chair: Vineet Goyal (Columbia University, USA)

15:40 Optimal Price Rebates for Demand Response under Power Flow Constraints
  Vineet Goyal (Columbia University, USA), Garud Iyengar (Columbia University, USA), Henry Schwarz (AutoGrid Systems, Inc., USA) and Shuangyu Wang (Columbia University, USA)
   
16:00 Demand Response for Contingency Management via Real-Time Pricing in Smart Grids
  Mohammad Reza Vedady Moghadam Nanehkaran (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Richard T. B. Ma (National University of Singapore, USA)
   
16:20 A Framework for Baseline Load Estimation in Demand Response: Data Mining Approach
  Saehong Park (Sogang University, Korea), Seunghyoung Ryu (Sogang University & NICE Lab, Korea), Yohwan Choi (Sogang University, Korea) and Hongseok Kim (Sogang University, Korea)
   
16:40 A Demand Response Game and its Robust Price of Anarchy
  Pratyush Chakraborty (University of Florida, USA) and Pramod Khargonekar (Univ of Florida, Gainesville, USA)
   
17:00 Demand Response Management For Power Throttling Air Conditioning Loads In Residential Smart Grids
  Yawar Ismail Khalid (LUMS School of Science and Engineering, Lahore, Pakistan), Naveed Ul Hassan (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan), Chau Yuen (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) and Shisheng Huang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
   
17:20 Demand-Side Management in a Smart Micro-Grid: A Distributed Approach Based on Bayesian Game Theory
  Matteo Sola (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Giorgio M. Vitetta (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

S4-3: EV Charging I

Day: Wednesday, 5 November
Room: D
Chair: Danny H. K. Tsang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

10:20 Auxiliary Frequency and Voltage Regulation in Microgrid via Intelligent Electric Vehicle Charging
  Nan Zou (PVAMU, USA), Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, USA) and Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)
   
10:40 Competitive Charging Station Pricing for Plug-in Electric Vehicles
  Wei Yuan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China), Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
   
11:00 A Layered Architecture for EV Charging Stations Based on Time Scale Decomposition
  Ke Ma (Texas A&M University, USA), Le Xie (Texas A&M University, USA) and P. R. Kumar (Texas A&M University, USA)
   
11:20 A Pricing-based Load Shifting Framework For EV Fast Charging Stations
  I. Safak Bayram (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar), Muhammad Ismail (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar), Mohamed M. Abdallah (Texas A&M University at Qatar & Cairo University at Cairo, Qatar), Khalid A. Qaraqe (Texas A&M University at Qatar, USA) and Erchin Serpedin (Texas A&M University, USA)
   
11:40 The Fair Distribution of Power to Electric Vehicles: An Alternative to Pricing
  Yingjie Zhou (Sichuan University & Columbia University, P.R. China), Nick Maxemchuk (Columbia University, USA), Xiangying Qian (Columbia University, USA) and Chen Wang (Columbia University, USA)
   

S4-4: Electrical Vehicles

Day: Wednesday, 5 November
Room: D
Chair: Dejun Yang (Colorado School of Mines, USA)

13:30 Smart Charging System for PEV Based on SEP 2.0 and SAE Standards
  Takayuki Shimizu (TOYOTA InfoTechnology Center USA, USA), Akihisa Yokoyama (Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA), Kazuma Sato (TOYOTA InfoTechnology Center USA, USA) and Kunihiko Kumita (Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan)
   
13:50 A Robust Design of Electric Vehicle Frequency Regulation Service
  Enxin Yao (University of British Columbia, Canada), Vincent W.S. Wong (University of British Columbia, Canada) and Robert Schober (University of British Columbia, Canada)
   
14:10 DCD: Distributed Charging and Discharging Scheme for EVs in Microgrids
  Tan N. Le (The State University of New York (SUNY) Korea & Stony Brook University, Korea), Bong Jun Choi (The State University of New York (SUNY) Korea & Stony Brook University, Korea), Hao Liang (University of Alberta, Canada), Hongwei Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China) and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
   
14:30 Modified Pattern Sequence-based Forecasting for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
  Mostafa Majidpour (UCLA, USA), Charlie Qiu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Peter Chu (UCLA, USA), Rajit Gadh (University of California - Los Angeles, USA) and Hemanshu Pota (UNSW@adfa, Australia)
   
14:50 Efficient Optimal Scheduling of Charging Station with Multiple Electric Vehicles via V2V
  Pengcheng You (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) and Zaiyue Yang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
   

S4-5: Energy Trading and Pricing

Day: Wednesday, 5 November
Room: D
Chair: Ichiro Maruta (Kyoto University, Japan)

15:40 Optimal Energy Trading with Battery Energy Storage under Dynamic Pricing
  Xiaoqi Tan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), Yuan Wu (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China) and Danny H. K. Tsang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
   
16:00 Optimal Energy Management Policy of a Mobile Cloudlet with Wireless Energy Charging
  Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Ping Wang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Peter Han Joo Chong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA) and Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea)
   
16:20 Efficient Incentive-Driven Consumption Curtailment Mechanisms in Nega-Watt Markets
  Angeliki Anastopoulou (Athens University of Economics and Business & Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece), Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business and CERTH & CERTH, Greece) and George Stamoulis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
   
16:40 Minimum-cost charging of electrical storage heaters
  Fabian Mueller (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich & IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland), Carl Binding (IBM Research, Switzerland), Olle Sundstroem (IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland) and Michael Bengsch (E. On Metering, Switzerland)
   
17:00 Optimal Charging Strategies for Electrical Vehicles under Real Time Pricing
  Mohammad Mahdi Karbasioun (Carleton University, Canada), Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada), Gennady Shaikhet (Carleton University, Canada) and Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University, Canada)
   

S4-6: EV Charging II

Day: Thursday, 6 November
Room: D
Chair: Nikolaos Gatsis (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

10:20 Adaptive Demand Response: Online Learning of Restless and Controlled Bandits
  Qingsi Wang (University of Michigan, USA), Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan, USA) and Johanna Mathieu (University of Michigan, USA)
   
10:40 Consumer in-the-Loop: Consumers as Part of Residential Smart Energy Systems
  Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA), Nadia Ahmed (University of California, Irvine, USA) and Arthur Zhang (California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology & University of California Irvine, USA)
   
11:00 Minimizing Commercial Building Cost in Smart Grid: An Optimal Meeting Scheduling Approach
  Bo Chai (Zhejiang University, P.R. China), Alberto Costa (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Italy), Selin Ahipasaoglu (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Turkey), Shisheng Huang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore), Chau Yuen (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) and Zaiyue Yang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
   
11:20 Peak Demand Scheduling in the Smart Grid
  Sean Yaw (Montana State University, USA), Brendan Mumey (Montana State University, USA), Erin McDonald (Montana State University, USA) and Jennifer Lemke (Humboldt State University, USA)
   
11:40 A Novel Grid Load Management Technique Using Electric Water Heaters and Q-Learning
  Khalid Al-jabery (Missouri University of Science &Technology, USA), Donald Wunsch (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA), Jinjun Xiong (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) and Yiyu Shi (Missouri Univ of Science & Technology, USA)
   

S4-7: Demand Side Management

Day: Thursday, 6 November
Room: D
Chair: Hao Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

15:40 Demand-Aware Price Policy Synthesis and Verification Services for Smart Grids
  Toni Mancini (Università di Roma 1, Italy), Federico Mari (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy), Igor Melatti (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy), Ivano Salvo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Enrico Tronci (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Jorn Gruber (Institute IMDEA Energy, Spain), Barry Hayes (Institute IMDEA Energy, Spain), Milan Prodanovic (Institute IMDEA Energy, Spain) and Lars Elmegaard (SEAS-NVE, Denmark)
   
16:00 Optimal Design of Serious Games for Demand Side Management
  Thanasis Papaioannou (Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece), Vassiliki Hatzi (CERTH and University of Thessaly, Greece) and Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business and CERTH & CERTH, Greece)
   
16:20 Modeling of Dynamics in Demand Response for Real-time Pricing
  Ichiro Maruta (Kyoto University, Japan) and Yusuke Takarada (Kyoto University, Japan)
   
16:40 Integration of V2H/V2G Hybrid System for Demand Response in Distribution Network
  Yubo Wang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Omar Sheikh (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Boyang Hu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Chi-Cheng Chu (University of California - Los Angeles, USA) and Rajit Gadh (University of California - Los Angeles, USA)
   
17:00 Aggregated Residential Load Modeling Using Dynamic Bayesian Networks
  Maria Vlachopoulou (Microsoft, USA), George Chin (PNNL, USA), Jason Fuller (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) and Shuai Lu (PNNL, USA)
   

S5-1: Frequency Monitoring and Data Collection

Day: Tuesday, 4 November
Room: D
Chair: Jianhui Wang (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

13:30 Power Grid Frequency Monitoring over Mobile Platforms
  Haoyang Lu (University of Tennessee, USA), Lingwei Zhan (University of Tennessee, USA), Yilu Liu (University of Tennessee, USA) and Wei Gao (University of Tennessee, USA)
   
13:50 GREEND: An Energy Consumption Dataset of Households in Italy and Austria
  Andrea Monacchi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Dominik Egarter (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Wilfried Elmenreich (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Salvatore D'Alessandro (WiTiKee srl & University of Udine, Italy) and Andrea M Tonello (University of Udine & WiTiKee srl, Italy)
   
14:10 Reconsidering the Smart Metering Data Collection Frequency for Distribution State Estimation
  Qipeng Chen (University of Bristol, United Kingdom), Dritan Kaleshi (University of Bristol, United Kingdom), Zhong Fan (Toshiba Research Europe, United Kingdom) and Simon Armour (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
   
14:30 Power Grid Disturbance Analysis Using Frequency Information at the Distribution Level
  Liu Liu (The University of Tennessee, USA), Jidong Chai (The University of Tennessee, USA), Hairong Qi (the University of Tennessee, USA) and Yilu Liu (University of Tennessee, USA)
   
14:50 A Methodology to Analyze Conservation Voltage Reduction Performance Using Field Test Data
  Hao Jan Liu (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA), Richard Macwan (University of Illinois, USA), Nicholas Alexander (University of Illinois, USA) and Hao Zhu (University of Illinois, USA)
   

S5-2: Non-intrusive Monitoring and Forecasting

Day: Wednesday, 5 November
Room: A
Chair: Ka-Cheong Leung (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

13:30 Non-intrusive appliance load monitoring using low-resolution smart meter data
  Jing Liao (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom), Georgia Elafoudi (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom), Lina Stankovic (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) and Vladimir Stankovic (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
   
13:50 Data-Driven Evaluation of Building Demand Response Capacity
  Deokwoo Jung (Advanced Digital Sciences Center & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Singapore), Varun Badrinath Krishna (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore), William Temple (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore) and David Yau (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore)
   
14:10 Non-Intrusive Load Identification for Smart Outlets
  Sean K Barker (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA), Mohamed Musthag (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA), David Irwin (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) and Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
   
14:30 Forecasting Heat Load for Smart District Heating Systems: A Machine Learning Approach
  Samuel O. Idowu (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden), Saguna Saguna (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden), Christer Åhlund (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden) and Olov Schelén (Luleå University of Technology & Xarepo, Sweden)
   
14:50 Data-Driven Topology Estimation
  Yang Weng (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) and Marija Ilić (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
   

S5-3: Data Management and Forecasting

Day: Thursday, 6 November
Room: D
Chair: Jianhui Wang (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

13:30 A Simple Model-Driven Approach to Energy Disaggregation
  Guoming Tang (University of Victoria, Canada), Kui Wu (University of Victoria, Canada), Jingsheng Lei (Shanghai University of Electric Power, P.R. China) and Jiuyang Tang (National University of Defense and Technology, P.R. China)
   
13:50 Bayesian Linear State Estimation using Smart Meters and PMUs Measurements in Distribution Grids
  Luca Schenato (University of Padova, Italy), Grazia Barchi (University of Trento, Italy), David Macii (University of Trento, Italy), Reza Arghandeh (University of California, Berkeley & California Institute for Energy and Environment, USA), Kameshwar Poolla (University of California at Berkeley, USA) and Alexandra von Meier (California Institute for Energy and Environment & UC Berkeley, USA)
   
14:10 Residential Smart Grids: Before and After the Appearance of PVs and EVs
  Fabian Uriarte (University of Texas at Austin, USA) and Robert Hebner (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
   
14:30 TMQ: Threat Model Quantification in Smart Grid Critical Infrastructures
  Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) and Luis Garcia (University of Miami, USA)
   
14:50 The comparison of medium-term energy demand forecasting methods for the need of microgrid management
  Tymoteusz Hossa (Poznan University of Economics & Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy, Poland), Agata Filipowska (Poznan University of Economics, Poland) and Karol Fabisz (Poznan University of Economics, Poland)