-------------- Call for Papers ---------------------- The 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-17) Madeira, Portugal May 16-19, 2017 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17`/ **************************************************************************** Important Dates =========== - Workshops Proposal Due: November 1, 2016 - Paper Submission Due: January 20, 2017 (FINAL) - Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2017 - Camera-Ready Submission: March 13, 2017 The goal of the SEIT-17 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in sustainable energy information technology. All SEIT 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in an international journal. SEIT 2017 will be held in Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago. Madeira is a popular year-round tourist destination, known for its remarkable mountainous scenery and mild year-long climate. Although, Madeira is part of Europe it is approximately 1,000 km from the continent while being only 520 km from the coast of Africa. It is about an hour and a half flight from the capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Funchal, the picturesque capital of Madeira, is situated on the south coast of the island and one of Atlantic Oceans most popular cruise ship ports. Madeira is a scenic island with many unique destinations such as the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site. SEIT-2017 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/). Conference Main Topics: ================= - Advanced Techniques for Energy Applications - Energy Efficiency - Energy Policy - Environmental - Green Sustainability - Power Quality, Power Electronics and Electric Machines - Power Systems - Renewable Energies - Sensing & Monitoring - Smart Systems Committees ======== General Chair Gerrit Jan Schaeffer, The Flemish Institute of Technological Research, Belgium Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs çlvaro Henrique Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal Jesœs Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad PolitŽcnica de Madrid, Spain Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Advisory Committee Bilal A. Akash, Dhofar University, Oman Antonio J. Conejo, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain Derek J Croome, University of Reading, UK Geert Deconinck, KU Leuven, Belgium Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo, Canada Saffa Riffat, University of Nottingham, UK Ali Sayigh,World Renewable Energy Congress / Network Workshops Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Publicity Chairs Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Guelma University, Algeria Seonghoon Kim, Georgia Southern University, USA Ilan Stern, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/#programCommittees