Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: 

Smart Grid

• Smart Sensors and Advanced Metering Infrastructure

• Power and Energy System Applications (generation, transmission, distribution, markets, operations, planning)

• Impact of Smart Grid on Distributed Energy Resources (electric cars, demand response, distributed generation, storage)

• Energy Management Systems (with applications to smart buildings and home automation)

• Wide Area Protection, Communication, and Control in Energy Systems

• Cyber Security Systems (intelligent monitoring and outage management)

• Smart Grid Interoperability and Standards

• Critical infrastructure resiliency (natural disasters, geomagnetic disturbances, etc.)

• Deployable microgrids

• Smart grid deployment and demonstration projects

Smart City

• Intelligent urbanism

• Smart city

• Platforms and technologies

• Smart city roadmap

• Environmental sustainability

• Heritage conservation

• Appropriate technology

• Infrastructure-efficiency

• Placemaking

• Social access

• Transit-oriented development

• Regional integration

• Human scale

• Institutional integrity

• Principle one: a balance with nature

• Principle two: a balance with tradition

• Principle three: appropriate technology

• Principle four: conviviality

• A place for the individual

• A place for friendship

• A place for householders

• A place for the neighborhood

• A place for communities

• A place for the city domain

• Principle five: efficiency

• Principle six: human scale

• Principle seven: opportunity matrix

• Principle eight: regional integration

• Principle nine: balanced movement

• Principle ten: institutional integrity