Rotterdam, the Netherlands
17 June, 2025
The 1st International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Energy Flexibility will be held in conjunction with the ACM e-Energy 2025 conference on the 17th of June 2025 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
For the workshop program see the ACM e-Energy Workshop Program.
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 and heat. 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, 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.
All submissions must be at most 6 pages (including references, figures, and appendices), 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://caef25.hotcrp.com.
Accepted papers will appear in ACM digital library.
Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2025 (AOE)
Notifications: April 30, 2025 (AOE)
Camera ready due: May 7, 2025 (AOE)
Workshop: June 17
Workshop co-chairs
Marco Gerards, University of Twente <m.e.t.gerards@utwente.nl>
Gerwin Hoogsteen, University of Twente <g.hoogsteen@utwente.nl>
Johann Hurink, University of Twente <j.l.hurink@utwente.nl>
Program committee
Marco Gerards, University of Twente
Gerwin Hoogsteen, University of Twente
Johann Hurink, University of Twente
Valentin Robu, CWI
Martijn Schoot Uiterkamp, Tilburg University