Feature Papers in Section Smart Grids

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will collect and highlight recent work on smart grids. We are inviting reviews, regular research papers (articles), and communications in all areas of research concerning smart grids. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Applications for smart grids, smart buildings, smart homes, smart lighting, renewable energy sources, and power electronics for smart grids.
• Distributed and peer-to-peer energy and multi-energy systems: control, optimisation, and modelling.
• Electric vehicle and smart grid interaction.
• Computer engineering, as well as information and communication technologies (ICT), for smart grids: infrastructures and information management for smart grids.
• IoT architectures, protocols, and algorithms, as well IoT devices and network technologies, applied to smart grids.
• Cloud computing, autonomic computing, data management, intelligent data processing, and data-driven management for smart grids.
• Real-time, semantic web services, and context-aware systems for smart grids.
• Cyber-physical systems and virtual and augmented reality for smart grids.
• Advances in smart grid sensing: (wireless) sensors networks, communications, sensors interfaces, embedded sensing/actuation, and grid synchronisation technologies.
• Traceability, calibration, and data fusion models for distributed sensing grids.
• Challenges in reliability, quality, security, efficiency, and resilience of power infrastructure.
• Experimentation and deployments: real solutions, system design, modelling and evaluation for smart grids, proof-of-concept implementations, pilot deployments, and performance evaluation.
• Novel trends and challenges for smart grids.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Moreno-Munoz
Dr. Emilio José Palacios-García
Guest Editors

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