João Soares participates in GECCO 2019 presenting the recent results of CENERGETIC project – 25 July 2019
During the conference (13-17 July), the CENERGETIC workshop of SmartEA was organized together with IAM (Industry Applications of Metaheuritics). The presentation of the article concerning the business models for electric vehicles flexibility has been done in those workshops reaching an interesting audience. In addition, CENERGETIC participated in the 100-digit challenge competition session, where the team was invited to present and detail the algorithm “HyDE-DF” developed in the project, which ranked the third place among 36 other participants. The competition organized by CENERGETIC team was also discussed and presented during the congress. The winner received a certificate in the closing ceremony represented by Pedro Julian Garcia from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Pedro Julian Garcia from Universidad Nacional de Colombia receiving the winner certificate of the competition
CENERGETIC algorithm ranks third in CEC/GECCO/SEMCCO competition among 36 other participants worldwide – 7 July 2019
The HyDE-DF algorithm developed by Dr. Fernando Lezama and also co-authored by Dr. Joao Soares, Mr. Ricardo Faia and Professor Zita Vale has been ranked third place in the 100-Digit Challenge competition with 93 points out of 100.
The 100-Digit Challenge for single objective, real-parameter optimization resembles the original version by Oxford’s Nick Trefethen since 2002 where contestants are asked to solve (optimize) ten state of the art optimization functions to an accuracy of 10 digits each. As in the original challenge, one point is awarded for each correct digit, so the maximum total score for all ten functions is again 100.
CENERGETIC project is putting a great effort into developing excellent algorithms to be able to deal with the most difficult optimization functions in the state of the art. This will contribute to improving current smart grid solutions that need adequate optimization tools as stated in the project’s goal.
Workshop held on premises of Ilha Solteira, UNESP, Brazil – 16 February 2019
The workshop with the title “I Workshop Pesquisas sobre Veículos Elétricos no LAPSEE” has been held on 16th February 2019, Ilha Solteira, UNESP, Brazil. The total number of participants was 14 participants. The presentations (in Portuguese) can be downloaded here.
Researchers from CENERGETIC team visited Honda Research Institute (HRI) – 26 November 2018
The visit has been held in Honda RI premises involving researchers from HRI and 3 researchers from GECAD. João Soares and Fernando Lezama gave their talks on “Integration of electric vehicles in the grid” and “Computational intelligence for energy resource management in smart grids”, respectively. Extensive discussions and other presentations from HRI has been followed.
Previously, the team had the opportunity to meet HRI researchers and their work at GECCO 2017 and WCCI 2018 last July in Rio de Janeiro.
Joao Soares from GECAD will participate in the electric mobility days 23-24 November at ISEP
Dr. Joao Soares from GECAD will participate in the next edition of the electric mobility days between 23-24 November in the panel of infrastructure and e-mobility management with a talk on “Integration of electric vehicles in the electricity network”.
Dr. Joao Soares has been in this line of research for 10 years with intensive work in the scope of simulation of electric vehicles in the electricity network and advanced integration of them by proposing intelligent algorithms.
Check the full program of the electric mobility days in (http://www.isep.ipp.pt/Page/
Kick-off, October 3 2018
The team of CENERGETIC has met on October 3 2018 at 14h30 (Lisbon Time) and 10h30 (Sao Paulo time) for the kick-off of the project. The meeting has been held remotely with the Brazilian team from UNESP.
The team has discussed the planning details and some adjustments necessary to the approved proposal in April 2018 by FCT. The budget for the Portuguese team is around 240k euros (FCT funding agency) and the Brazilian team around 221k Brazilian reais (FAPESP funding agency). Secondments are expected between the two institutions during the duration of the project.
The kick-off slides can be found here Presentation CENERGETIC-SAICT FCT 2018.
