On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I am glad to inform you that the Special Session Optimizing the use of Distributed Energy Resources in Smart Grids with Effective Demand Response will be held as inside the upcoming 2018 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence (http://ieee-ssci2018.org/), which will take place in Bengaluru, India, on November 18-21, 2018.

Check the online Call for Papers, possible topics include:

• Algorithms for modeling, control and optimization
• Communication and control
• Demand side management
• Demand response
• Distributed energy resources
• Markets and economics
• Methods and algorithms for real-time analysis
• Optimization
• Planning, operation and control
• Plug-in electric vehicles
• Renewable energy
• Smart homes and buildings

In the light of your expertise in the field, I kindly invite you to submit a contribution related to the special session topics. Please, note that the paper submission deadline is June 15, 2018.

Manuscripts will be subject to the same peer-review review procedure as the regular papers. Accepted contributions will be part of the conference proceedings.

Looking forward to meeting you at SSCI2018.

Special Session Organizers:
Pedro Faria, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal, pnf@isep.ipp.pt
Zita Vale, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal, zav@isep.ipp.pt
Kumar Venayagmoorthy, Clemson University, USA, gvenaya@clemson.edu
Tiago Pinto, University of Salamanca, Spain, tpinto@usal.es
Oscar Garcia, Nebusens, Spain, oscar.garcia@nebusens.com