Call for Papers

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The IEEE Power Engineering Society's 2004 Power Systems Conference and Exposition will be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York, New York, from October 10th-13th 2004. This inaugural power systems engineering conference will bring together practicing power engineers and academics from around the world to address the topics under the theme New Solutions for New Challenges. This event will provide a venue to share and discuss various issues and developments in the field of electrical power systems engineering, focusing on the following tracks:

TRACK 1: Planning and Operation, covering topics such as:

Generation system resource planning
Transmission and distribution system planning
Integrated resource and distributed resource planning
Load forecasting
Customer products and services
Industry restructuring planning
Transmission and distribution operations, security, and asset management
Asset management

TRACK 2: Markets, Policies, and Economics, covering topics such as:

Emerging methods for restructured systems
Economics, market organization, cost structures, pricing, and information security
Industry restructuring policy issues and market design
Ancillary services
Risk management
Long-term adequacy
Cost / benefit issues
Financial settlement
Merchant power

TRACK 3: Dynamic Performance of Power Systems, covering topics such as:

Modeling for dynamic performance analysis
Stability and control
System dynamics measurements
Reliability, uncertainty, and stochastic system applications
Distribution system performance
Modeling, performance and control with emerging technologies (e.g., FACTS, distributed generation, superconductivity)
Dynamic security assessment

TRACK 4: Real-Time Applications, covering topics such as:

On-line tools and Internet applications
Energy automation and information
Systems integration
On-line monitoring and diagnostics
Cyber security
SCADA / EMS / DMS
Substation and distribution automation
Computational techniques and analytical methods for planning, operation, and control
Computing applications and information processing
Intelligent systems
Industry applications

EDUCATIONAL TRACK: Understanding Power Systems, covering topics such as:

Educational and training programs
Innovative methods of presenting power system engineering concepts
Visualization techniques
Internet tools for better understanding of power systems

Manuscript Submission: Complete manuscripts prepared in accordance with the conference call for papers should be submitted electronically via the special web site that has been established for PSCE submissions. Access the site through the PES home page at www.ieee.org/power. Paper submissions are due by April 12, 2004. Please check the PES website and the PES Author's Kit for manuscript formatting and preparation instructions and more information about submissions as it become available. All submissions will be reviewed as conference-grade papers.