Conference Program

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08.30 – 09.00 Check-in @SUPSI – Campus Mendrisio
09.00 – 12.00 Workshops*:
Track A: ASSUME – Deep reinforcement learning for electricity market modeling (room: A0.09).
Track B: Creating and Optimizing Energy Islands (room: A0.08 Sala Polivalente).
Track C: Doctoral workshop (for the selected participants only) (Aula A2.06)
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 16.30 Workshops*:
Track A: Market-based SGAM updates or solito negotium  (room: A0.09).
Track B: Piloting the Digicities Platform for Strategic Planning and Decision-Making (room: A0.08 Sala Polivalente).
Track C: Doctoral workshop (for the selected participants only) (room: A2.06)
18.30 – Welcome aperitif in Lugano @Antica Osteria del Porto, Via Foce 9, 6900 Lugano
19:45 – PhD dinner @Ristorante Pizzeria Griglieria Commercio, Via Ludovico Ariosto 4, 6900 Lugano

*All workshops will take place at SUPSI – Campus Mendrisio located at Via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, 6850.

**The parallel workshop tracks are updated on 2024.09.09 to allow maximum number of delegates to join their preferred workshop. 

08.30 – 09.00 Check-in @Aula Magna USI
09.00 – 09.15 Welcome notes
09.15 – 10.00 Key note: Digitalization of the Swiss Energy Sector – an outlook (Dr. Matthias Galus)
10.00 – 11.00

Session 1: Operation

  • Data-Driven Identification and Operational Optimization of Energy-Flexible Thermal Supply Systems
  • A Distributed Game Theoretic Approach for Optimal Battery Use in an Energy Community (Short paper)
  • Probabilistic energy forecasting through quantile regression in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30

Session 2: Resilience

  • Modeling protection systems in smart active distribution grids for a performance analysis
  • Analyzing and Predicting Extreme Frequency Deviations: A Case Study in the Balearic Power Grid (Short paper)
  • Utilizing autonomous airport parking facilities as virtual power plants to provide frequency containment reserve
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 – 14.30

Session 3: Markets

  • An Algorithm for Modelling Rolling Intrinsic Battery Trading on the Continuous Intraday Market
  • Power-dependent price profiles – defining grid- and market-oriented incentives for building energy management systems
  • How Satisfactory Can Deep Reinforcement Learning Methods Simulate Electricity Market Dynamics? Benchmarking via Bi-level Optimization
14.30 – 15.15 2-minutes poster presentations
15.15 – 16.00 Poster session & coffee break
Best poster voting to take place during the session
16.00 – 17.00

Session 4: Cyber-physical systems

  • Field Survey of Wireless M-Bus Encryption for Energy Metering Applications in Residential Buildings
  • Towards a State Explanation Framework in Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Decentralized Privacy-preserving Power Flow Forecast on Smart Meters
18.00 – 19:45 City tour and aperitif e-boat ride on Lake Lugano @Lugano Centrale (lago)
20:00 – Conference dinner with best paper and best poster awards @Ciani Lugano, Piazza Indipendenza 4, 6900 Lugano

*All main conference events will take place at the Aula Magna USI West Campus located in Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano.

09.00 – 09.45 Key note: Spatiotemporal forecasting with graph neural networks (Prof. Dr. Cesare Alippi)
09.45 – 10.30

Session 5: Planning

  • The impact of redispatch on grid and storage expansion planning in the German energy system
  • The plan4.energy Approach for Planning Support for Positive Energy Districts
10.30 – 11.15

Session 6: Energy Data

  • Monitoring Germany’s Core Energy System Dataset: A Data Quality Analysis of the Marktstammdatenregister
  • Choosing the right Ontology to describe Research Data in the Energy Domain
11.15 – 11.45 Coffee break
11.45 – 12.45

Session 7: Tools

  • A Platform Ecosystem Providing New Data For The Energy Transition
  • Empowering Energy Communities and P2P Energy Sharing: A Novel End-to-End Ecosystem for Planning, Deployment, and Operation
  • Don’t Touch The Power Line – A Proof-of-Concept for Aligned LLM-based Assistance Systems to Support the Maintenance in the Electricity Distribution System (Short paper)
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch break
13.45 – 14.30

Session 8: User-centric methods

  • Practical Application of Energy-related Use Case Methodology and SGAM Framework: A Study of User Perspectives and Challenges
  • Enabling Moral Agency in Distributed Energy Management An Ethics Score for Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems
14.30 – 14.45 Closing

*All main conference events will take place at the Aula Magna USI West Campus located in Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano.