The 2016 International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS) will be held in October 16-20, 2016 in Beijing, China. For more information and program updates, please visit the 2016 PMAPS web page: www.pmaps2016.org. The theme of the 2016 PMAPS conferences is “Shaping the Future of Probabilistic Applications”. Papers are invited on all topics related to probabilistic methods applied to power and energy systems. These topics include but are not limited to the following: 
• Reliability for system planning, operation, control and protection 
• Reliability centered maintenance and asset management 
• Uncertainties and correlations in renewable energy systems 
• Stochastic optimization and simulation 
• Load forecast and uncertainty in forecasting 
• Forecast of wind speeds, solar insolations and other renewable sources 
• Outage data and analysis 
• Equipment failure diagnosis and condition monitoring 
• Probabilistic analysis in demand side management 
• Probabilistic economic analysis 
• Risk assessment of energy corridors for supply continuity 
• Reliability assessment of smart grid and micro grids 
• Risk management and decision-making 
• Seismic performance analysis for electric power systems 
• Probabilistic assessment in power market 
• SCADA/EMS designs including wind power, smart grid, economic analysis and power market 
• Cascading failures in electric power systems 
• Probabilistic assessment of the traffic problems in the big cities and the suggestions 
• Structural reliability 
• Probabilistic methods 
• Probabilistic methods and tools in educational applications