Modeling and Simulation for Sustainability and Smart Energy Systems (S&SES)

Modeling and Simulation for Sustainability and Smart Energy Systems (S&SES)

Track chairs

Standing at the center of climate change, sustainability is the greatest challenge and opportunity of this century. A new generation of sustainable systems will incorporate increasingly sophisticated sensing, control, and communication technologies that maintain or improve performance while using smart management to consume less energy and material. The new capabilities created by these “smart” systems have the potential to radically transform our economy. At the same time, smart systems necessarily include complex software that must be cost-effective and perform reliably while overseeing critical tasks.

Modeling and Simulation (M&S) plays an indispensable role in achieving the simultaneous goals of reliability and affordability by providing virtual venues in which to explore requirements, test new materials and physical instruments, develop new algorithms, and perform software testing. This track invites papers describing novel uses of modeling and simulation to create and demonstrate systems that strive towards smart energy management and a sustainable future. We welcome collaborative works with different and disjoint disciplines such as computer and data sciences, energy, applied math, or environmental sciences.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Decision making for sustainability and energy management.
  • Environmental and emerging simulation challenges of sustainable systems.
  • Building energy systems, including HVAC and energy management systems.
  • Smart power grids and micro-grids.
  • Energy-efficient cloud computing.
  • Internet of Things energy consumption.
  • Sustainable cities.
  • Carbon emission mitigation strategies.
  • New or more efficient forms of power generation.
  • ML applications for sustainability concerns.
  • Twin city sustainability.