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Call for Papers

Paper Submission Site Closed in April. All decisions will be announced in August. The technical program will be posted in September.

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New Solutions for New Challenges
In Power Systems Operation, Planning, Policy, Markets, Analysis, and Control

Building on the success of the inaugural event in 2004, the 2006 IEEE PES Power Systems Conference & Exhibition will be a major power systems event that will again provide an exceptional venue for discussing issues and developments as well as for highlighting key vendors with products and services essential to the multifaceted field of electrical power systems.

PSCE will bring together an international group of practicing power systems engineers, operators, planners, policy makers, economists, academics and others with interest in the profession.

The conference will begin with a timely and valuable plenary session and will also include tutorials on the most up-to-date topics on power systems. In addition, the conference will comprise an outstanding combination of technical panel, paper and poster sessions focusing on the following tracks:

TRACK 1: Planning and Operation, covering such topics 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
Intelligent systems
Computational methods

TRACK 2: Markets, Policies, and Economics, covering such topics 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
Management of transmission assets

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

Modeling for dynamic performance analysis
System dynamics measurements
Reliability, uncertainty, and stochastic system applications
Distribution system performance
System performance and experience with FACTS
Modeling, performance and control with emerging technologies
Dynamic security assessment
Computational methods
Control strategies
Torsional phenomena
Voltage and angle stability
Distributed generation
Wind power generation and dynamic simulations

TRACK 4: Real-Time Applications, covering such topics 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

TRACK 5: Education - Understanding Power Systems, covering such topics as:

Educational and training programs
Innovative methods of presenting power system engineering concepts
Visualization techniques
Internet tools for better understanding of power systems
New technologies in education
Innovative didactic tools
Software developments for training

Manuscript Submission

Papers must be prepared in accordance with the procedures outlined in the PES Publications Guide, which is part of the PES Authors Kit available at the PES web site (www.ieee.org/power). Complete manuscripts are to be submitted electronically via the 2006 Power Systems Conference and Exposition web site (www.pscexpo.com), which can also be accessed from the PES web site. The submission site will be available for paper submissions beginning early February 2006 through April 28, 2006.

Authors will be notified of the decision regarding their paper by June 23, 2006. At least one author of each paper must register for the meeting and pay the appropriate fee before an accepted paper will be released for publication in the 2006 PES PSCE Proceedings or scheduled for presentation during a technical panel, paper or poster session.

Summary of Important Dates

Paper Submission Website Open	February 2006
Proceedings and Panel Papers Due	April 28, 2006
Panel Authors Notified (Accept, Reject or Revise)	May 26, 2006
Proceedings Authors Notified (Accept, Reject or Revise)	June 23, 2006
*Proceedings and Panel Revised Papers Due	July 14, 2006
*Proceedings and Panel Revised Paper Authors Notified	August 4, 2006
Author Registration Deadline	August 18, 2006

*Papers may be revised and resubmitted ONLY at the request of the Technical Committee Program Chairs (TCPCs).