Design Automation Smart Power Grid

DAC Workshop on Synergies between Design Automation and Smart Power Grid

Collocated with the 47th Design Automation Conference on June 13, 2010, Anaheim, California

The modernization of the world’s electricity system to achieve the characteristics of a Smart Grid, namely, efficiency, reliability, resiliency, and security, is of highest priority in this energy constrained environment. These characteristics are also important metrics for hardware development where Design Automation (DA) has made significant progress in improving these metrics. The goal of this workshop is therefore to explore the potential of leveraging design automation techniques to benefit the development of Smart Grids.

This workshop intends to bring together world-class researchers and practitioners from both the power engineering and design automation communities to study the grand challenges facing this monumental transformation. It will provide a forum to share domain expertise, and to discuss the potential synergy between the two communities and how to join forces to solve these grand challenges. The Smart Grid initiative requires innovation in many areas but this workshop will focus on topics that have overlap with Design Automation - system management, simulation, modeling, optimization, fault detection, and security.

This workshop will help the DA community to better understand the challenges of smart power grids, and the Power Engineering community to get a glimpse of the technical expertise of the field of Design Automation. The goal is to forge a partnership between the two communities to collaborate on novel cross discipline research problems, thus accelerating the progress of Smart Grids and expanding the scope of DA.

This workshop also promises to be an informative forum for the power engineering community to not only share their daily frustration in handling the large-scale complexity of the power grid operation, monitoring, controlling, prediction, optimization, scheduling, contingency analysis, data processing, and visual analytics, but also learn how the rich and diversified techniques developed in the DA community in handling large-scale integrated circuit designs, whose complexity is on par with, if not worse than, the upcoming smart power grids.

World-class prominent speakers will speak in this forum. Please mark your calendar for this thought provoking event. To see the announcement of this workshop at DAC, please click here.

To learn more about this workshop, please read the article titled "Design Automation and the Smart Grid " published at The DAC.com Knowledge Center. Here is the PDF version of this article.

To register for this event, please go to the DAC registration website. The rate for IEEE/ACM Member is USD 150; and for non IEEE/ACM Member is USD 195.

Technical Programs

  1. Keynote: Smarter Energy for a Smarter Planet: The next grand challenge for simulation, Mr. Brian Gaucher, IBM Research (slides)
  2. Power Grid Simulation
  3. Coffee Break
  4. Power Grid Optimization
  5. Dynamic Power Management
  6. Lunch Panel: Smart Grid, Views from Industry
  7. Fault Simulation, Detection, and Testing
  8. Model-to-hardware Correlation
  9. Coffee Break
  10. Power Grid Attacks and Security
  11. Wrap-up and concluding remarks

Program Committees