[Iefac.list] special issue on energy management and economics

[Maged Dessouky]

Computers & Industrial Engineering
Call for Papers – Special Issue on
“Energy Management and Economics”

Guest Editor
Prof. Ying Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 
China, 
<mailto:yfan at casipm.ac.cn>yfan at casipm.ac.cn, or 
<mailto:ying_fan at 263.net>ying_fan at 263.net

Aims and Scope
The energy sector has changed drastically over 
the last few years. More energy is increasingly 
being consumed worldwide and energy prices have 
become more volatile and unpredictable than ever 
before, especially after the global economic 
crisis in 2009. At the same time, fossil fuels 
are being depleted, with much of the remaining 
resources existing in unstable locations, while 
the threat of climate change is pushing people 
towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The challenges to the energy sector are apparent: 
ensuring sufficient and secure energy supplies, 
combating increasing dependency on energy 
imports, making adequate investments in new 
technologies and tackling environmental 
deterioration, especially the greenhouse effect. 
Besides the technical options, advanced theories, 
methodologies and techniques in energy management 
and economics are needed to meet these challenges.

Significant advances in the application of 
interdisciplinary methodologies and computer 
simulation to energy management and economics 
have taken place over the past 10 years, 
reflecting the growing importance of utilizing 
integrated models in this field. In this special 
issue, we solicit high quality papers that 
develop and apply quantitative models to 
investigate problems and issues related to energy 
management and economics. The emphasis is on the 
introduction of novel approaches for analyzing and solving these problems

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
·        Energy demand/price forecasting
·        Energy grid simulation/optimization
·        Modeling of energy systems and energy management
·        Analysis of stochastic and dynamic energy consumption
·        Multi-attribute analysis of energy 
supply, efficiency and consumption (economic 
sectors, demographics, economic status, population density, etc.)
·        Energy efficiency and conservation
·        Complexity/frangibility in energy-economic-environmental systems
·        Applications of mathematical modeling 
and analysis in energy/climate policies
·        Application of information technology to renewable/new energy sources
·        Distributed and decentralized energy networks.
·        Energy supply security and risk management in the energy market

Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted via Elsevier 
Editorial System 
<http://ees.elsevier.com/caie/>http://ees.elsevier.com/caie/. 
Please indicate in the Article Type “Special 
Issue: Energy Management”. Manuscripts should not 
have been previously published nor be currently 
under consideration for publication elsewhere. 
For Guide for Authors, please refer to the 
webpage: 
<http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/399/authorinstructions>http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/399/authorinstructions. 


Deadline
The submission deadline is March 31, 2011. The 
Special Issue is scheduled for publication in 2012.


Maged M. Dessouky
Professor & Director of The Daniel J. Epstein Institute
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0193
phone 213 740 4891
fax 213 740 1120
email: maged at usc.edu
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~maged/