Banff, Canada
22 June, 2026
The 2nd International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Energy Flexibility will be held in conjunction with the ACM e-Energy 2026 conference on the 22nd of June 2026 in Banff, Canada.
Flexibility in electricity demand and supply is used to address challenges in markets, grid congestion, reducing CO2 emissions, etc. The amount of flexibility rapidly increases due to the electrification of transport, heat and industrial processes. Many of the new devices introduced by the electrification have a communication interface and implement a flexibility interface. To efficiently make use of this flexibility, it needs to be aggregated and/or coordinated. This requires advances in modeling of flexibility, coordination of flexibility of flexible devices (e.g. EVs, HVACs, heat pumps, etc.), distributed optimization of flexibility, computational-aware flexibility markets, and online optimization of flexibility. The use of flexibility itself introduces new challenges related to privacy, cybersecurity, and robustness.
We invite papers that address computational challenges related to flexibility. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Mathematical modeling of flexibility: (dis)aggregation of flexibility, quantifying flexibility, prediction of flexibility, generation of flexibility data;
Communication of flexibility: flexibility protocols and standardization, privacy preserving communication of flexibility, robustness of ICT systems for flexibility, cybersecurity of demand-side management;
Algorithms for using flexibility: algorithms for flexibility coordination, distributed optimization, performance guarantees of algorithms, computational efficiency, online algorithms, learning-augmented algorithms;
Computational aspects of flexibility-markets: computation-aware flexibility market design, computational efficiency, algorithms for computing equilibria.
Submissions are limited to at most 6 pages (including references, figures, and appendices), or to 4 pages for short (position) papers, formatted in 9-point ACM double-column format, single-blind. The submission must be in PDF format. Word and LaTeX templates are available on the ACM Publications Website. Papers should present original work, not published, accepted or under review for any other publication. Submissions will be made to HotCRP: https://caef26.hotcrp.com.
Accepted papers appear in ACM digital library.
Paper submission deadline: March 29, 2026 (AOE)
Notifications: May 5, 2026 (AOE)
Camera ready due: May 12, 2026 (AOE)
Workshop: June 22, 2026
Workshop co-chairs
Martijn Schoot Uiterkamp, Tilburg University (main contact) <m.h.h.schootuiterkamp@tilburguniversity.edu>
Marco Gerards, University of Twente
Program committee
Marco Gerards, University of Twente
Gerwin Hoogsteen, University of Twente
Johann Hurink, University of Twente
Martijn Schoot Uiterkamp, Tilburg University
Leoni Winschermann, DTU