Special Section on Control and Monitoring of Next-Gen Urban Infrastructure: Applications to Power, Transportation, and Water Systems
Editor:
Ahmad Taha
Vanderbilt University
United States
https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/taha/
ahmad.taha@vanderbilt.edu
Submission Window: 15 Oct 2023 – 15 April 2024 Extended to 30 April 2024
Climate change, overpopulation, aging infrastructure, urbanization, and the natural finiteness of earth’s resources has pushed urban designers, city planners, policy makers, scientists, and engineers to rethink traditional control and design paradigms, and to look for holistic solutions to ensure the safety, resilience, security, and efficiency of operating new infrastructure. In particular, the three key infrastructure – electric power systems, water systems, and traffic networks – all face monumental challenges related to real-time operation. To that end, this special section focuses on presenting and sharing new control algorithms and architectures for the next generation of urban infrastructure with a specific focus on power, transportation, and water systems. The scope of each of these infrastructures is defined within the list of topics below.
Topics of interest for this special issue include and are not limited to:
Power systems: > Transmission and distribution systems
> Operation and feedback control problems
> State estimation and monitoring algorithms
> Control-theoretic cyber-security problems
> Decarbonization of power systems and climate change mitigation
> Control/monitoring of low-carbon power systems
> Learning algorithms for power systems modeling and control
> Connected and autonomous vehicles control problems
> Traffic control and prediction
> Control-theoretic cyber-security methods
> Learning algorithms for transportation systems modeling and control
> State estimation of advanced traffic dynamics
> Drinking water distribution networks
> Stormwater and urban drainage systems
> Flood control systems
> Hydraulics and water quality
> Feedback control algorithms
> State estimation and calibration methods
> Learning algorithms for water systems
> Smart sensing and control
> Digital twins for water systems
> Cyber-physical security of water infrastructure
> Water-energy nexus and joint control of water-power networks
> Electrification of transportation systems
> Joint control of electrified transportation and power distribution networks
Special Section Schedule:
> Special Section Submission Window: 15 October 2023 – 15 April 2024
> Notification of reviews of and recommendations: 10 weeks after initial submission
> Final notification of regular papers: 20 weeks after initial submission
> Manuscript publication on IEEE Xplore: 24 weeks after initial submission
Submission Site: https://css.paperplaza.net/journals/ojcs/scripts/login.pl
Length: 10-15 pages, not including references. Justification of longer papers is required.
Discounts: The first 8 published papers in this volume of the special section are eligible to receive a 50% discount on article processing charges (APCs).
Guest Senior Editor
Name: Ahmad Taha
Affiliation: Vanderbilt University
Guest Associate Editors
Name: Maria Laura Delle Monache
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Name: Mads Almassalkhi
Affiliation: University of Vermont
Name: Christian Claudel
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Name: Ahmed A. Abokifa
Affiliation: University of Illinois Chicago
Name: Marcio Giacomoni
Affiliation: University of Texas at San Antonio
Name: Mahnoosh Alizadeh
Affiliation: University of California, Santa Barbara
Name: Carlos Ocampo-Martinez
Affiliation: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya