[AISWorld] CFP The 1st International Conference on the Applications of Information Technology in Developing Renewable Energy Processes & Systems (IT-DREPS 2013)

[Dr. Wael Toghuj]

Call for Papers

It is our pleasure inviting you to participate in The 1st
International Conference & Exhibition on the Applications of
Information Technology in Developing Renewable Energy Processes &
Systems (IT-DREPS 2013), which will be held in Amman, Jordan on 9-11
April, 2013. IT-DREPS aims to provide a platform for academicians,
researchers, professionals, and decision makers who are working in the
areas of Information Technology (IT) and Renewable Energy (RE) to
disseminate knowledge and interchange information for better future
collaboration on developing more cost-effective, efficient, reliable,
and automated renewable energy processes and systems.

IT-DREPS 2013 is divided into two main themes; each theme is divided
into a number of tracks, where each track covers a number of related
topics, as listed below:

* Theme A: Renewable Energy Sources, Applications, Management, and Economics
This theme covers topics closely related to Renewable Energy sources,
applications, management, and economics as seen by Renewable Energy
specialists. It seeks to discuss current Renewable Energy sources and
state-of-the-art in Renewable Energy processes and systems
technologies. It also discusses future trends for developing
cost-effective Renewable Energy sources for essential applications and
high power consumption systems. It also explores new concepts, means,
and methodologies for developing efficient Renewable Energy system
management and financing.

o Track A-1: Renewable Energy  Power Generation Sources
This track seeks to promote and disseminate knowledge of various
sources and technologies of Renewable Energy. It aims at assisting
academicians, researchers, professionals, decision makers, economists,
manufacturers, world agencies and societies to keep abreast of new
developments in their specialist fields, and to work together to find
alternative energy sources and solutions. The track encompasses the
following topics:

* Solar and photovoltaic energy
* Osmotic energy
* Wind energy
* Geothermal energy
* Tidal, wave, and ocean energy
* Hydropower and hydroelectricity
* Boi-mass and bio-fuels

o Track A-2: Renewable Energy Applications
This track discusses the applications of Renewable Energy in essential
and high power consumption applications, such as electricity
generation, water desalination, water heating and cooling, and
air-conditioning. Furthermore, it discusses transmission and grid
integration as they are key ingredients for the

continued growth of the Renewable Energy applications. Power
transmission infrastructure may need to be upgraded and expanded to
accommodate the increased use of the abundant Renewable Energy
resources as well as serving existing power generation systems. This
track also explores the measures for evaluating the transmission
infrastructure capacity and effectiveness to reliably and
cost-effectively support the economic growth and consumer needs:

* Electricity generation, transmission, and grid integration
* Water desalination systems
* Water heating and cooling
* Air-conditioning systems

o Track A-3: Renewable Energy Management and Economics
Many countries are moving Renewable Energy development into the
mainstream through national, sub-national, economic, political or
trade mechanisms. This track covers issues related to management and
economics of Renewable Energy, like economic efficiency of Renewable
Energy systems, politics and legal issues, investment and financing,
foreign investor trends and drivers, facilitation of international
investment and project development, and globalization.

* Economic efficiency of renewable energy systems
* Politics and legal issues
* Investment and financing
* International trade and marketing
* Standardization and interoperability

* Theme B: Application of Information Technology Fields in Developing
Renewable Energy Processes and Systems
Information Technology can play a big role in developing efficient,
reliable, and cost-effective Renewable Energy processes and systems.
This theme discusses and demonstrates how Renewable Energy processes
and systems design benefit from the implementation of the latest
development in the different Information Technology fields.
o Track B-1: Intelligent Systems & Soft Computing for Renewable Systems
This track tackles issues related to renewable energy requiring
problem solving techniques that can deal with imprecision,
uncertainty, partial truth, and approximation to achieve low cost
solutions that are robust and traceable. It includes topics such as
Fuzzy Logic (FL), Neural Computing (NC), Evolutionary Computation
(EC), Machine Learning (ML), and Probabilistic Reasoning (PR).
Applications in this area may include modeling and simulations,
diagnosis, Control, and monitoring of renewable energy process and
systems.

* Modeling and simulation methodologies and tools
* Advanced computational methods
* Fuzzy Logic
* Intelligent algorithms
* Evolutionary algorithms
* Machine Learning
* Neural networks
* Probabilistic Reasoning

o Track B-2: Software Engineering for Renewable Energy Systems
This track presents an important step in the future of software
development for sustainability and renewability of energy.  As
Renewable Energy needs and requirements get complicated, Software
Engineering methodologies and techniques become more important for the
development of successful renewable energy software.  On the other
hand, the software development life cycle must incorporate important
issues relevant to sustainability and renewability of energy such as
sustainability requirements, energy and environmental standards,
integration and interoperability issues, quality and safety issues,
best practices issues, economical feasibility issues.
* Capturing sustainability requirements
* Software requirements
* Computer-aided design tools
* Software testing and validation tools
* Software quality assurance
* Embedded programming
* Integration and interoperability of software
* Human Computer Interface for renewable energy

o Track B-3: Smart Systems for Renewable Energy
This track explores the many areas of Information Technology necessary
for the development of Smart Grids and Smart Cities. It focuses on
achieving social sustainability as well as environmental
sustainability for smart cities.  The track considers issues related
to Infrastructure, communications, networking, sensors, monitoring,
measurement, smart meters, Smart control, scheduling, Fault tolerance,
security and interoperability of smart grids. Information Technology
topics covered in this track includes:

* Pervasive computing
* Intelligent  & Expert systems
* Embedded systems
* Smart scheduling systems
* Control/Remote control systems
* Data acquisition systems
* Internet and Web applications
* Cloud computing
* Grid computing
* Mobile computing
* Parallel and distributed systems
* Wireless data communication systems
* Mobile Ad Hoc networks
* Wireless sensor networks
* Green cellular networks
* Green communication devices
* Green networks

o Track B-4: IT Support for Renewable Energy
This is an open track to explore the support of different Information
Technology fields in the Renewable Energy area.  Topics include but
are not limited to: Management Information Systems, Decision Support
Systems, Database Systems and Data Mining, Data Visualization,
Knowledge discovery and dissemination, Microprocessor-based systems,
Signal processing, Operating systems, Electronic/mobile learning.

* Management information systems
* Decision support systems
* Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
* Database systems
* Data mining
* Data visualization
* Security systems
* Knowledge discovery and dissemination
* Microprocessor-based systems
* Signal processing
* Operating systems
* Electronic/mobile learning



Paper submission
Authors are invited to submit their papers through the conference
website (www.it-dreps.org) following the conference submission
guideline.

Registration fees

At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is required to
register through the conference website (www.it-dreps.org). The
registration fees and way of payment are explained on the conference
website.

Publications

All accepted papers will be published in printed/electronic
proceedings that will be available to registered participants during
the conference.

A number of papers will be selected for publications at:
* Renewable Energy: An International Journal, Elsevier Ltd.
* The Research Bulletin of Jordan ACM – ISWSA

A number of papers will be selected and their authors will be asked to
submit an extended version of their work as a chapter in a book for
publication by the IGI-Global (www.igi-global.com).



Committees

Steering committee: Prof. Adnan Badran, Chair
General Chair: Dr. Ghassan F. Issa (chair at it-dreps.org)
Co-Chair: Dr. Shakir M. Hussain (shussain at uop.edu.jo)
Scientific Committee: Dr. Hussein Al-Bahadili, Chair (scientific at it-dreps.org)
Organization Committee: Dr. Ali Maqousi, Chair (amaqousi at uop.edu.jo)

Important dates

Paper submission deadline		1st December 2012
Acceptance notifications:		1st February 2013
Camera ready form:			1st March 2013	
Conference date:			9-11 April 2013