{"id":17,"date":"2019-09-19T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2021-12-06T14:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:59:49","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:24px;text-align:center\"><strong>NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Conference: IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2021, October 18-21, 2021<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Zahra Forouzandeh attended the IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2021, presenting the research works: \u201cOptimal Contract Power and Battery Energy Storage System Capacity for Smart Buildings\u201d, (online presentation).  Check <a href=\"https:\/\/ieee-isgt-europe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a> for details. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Conference: EPIA 2021 20<sup>th<\/sup> EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence \u2013 September 7-9, 2021<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Jo\u00e3o Soares attended the EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, presenting the research work: \u201cOptimizing Energy Consumption of Household Appliances Using PSO and GWO\u201d (online presentation).  Check <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.appia.pt\/epia2021\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Conference: ICREPQ\u00b421 \u2013 19<sup>th<\/sup> International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality, July 28-20, 2021<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00e9rgio Ramos and Jo\u00e3o Soares attended the 19<sup>th<\/sup> International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICREPQ\u00b421), Almeria, Spain, presenting the research works: \u201cShared PV Production in Energy Communities and Buildings Context\u201d; \u201cIntelligent Resource Management in the context of a Microgrid of Smart Buildings\u201d. Check <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icrepq.com\/news.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul><li> <strong>Workshop \u2013 Intelligent Buildings Management and Trusted Local Energy Markets\u201d &#8211; ISEP, Online, 12th January 2021 <\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop &#8221; Intelligent Buildings Management and Trusted Local Energy Markets&#8221; has been held on 12th January 2021, in online format, as part of the SAIT-FCT BeNeFICE project, together with SPET project. The presentations involved forecasting and optimization techniques for energy building management and local energy markets simulators. Check the agenda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Workshop_Agenda-12-Jan-202123059.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Colagem-sem-t\u00edtulo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-280\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Conference: 14<sup>th<\/sup> International Symposium INTELS&#8217;20 \u2013 December 14-16<\/strong> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00e9rgio Ramos attended the INTELS 2020 conference on December 14-16, 2020 presenting the research work: \u201cData mining techniques for electricity customer characterization\u201d (online presentation). This paper was published in Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 186, January 2021, pp. 475-488, ISSN 1877-0509. doi: 10.1016\/j.procs.2021.04.168. (online presentation).  Check <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/intels-conf.ru\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for details and for online presentation check <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pU6WSOLlSww\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Conference: AIPES \u2013 Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems \u2013 4th September 2020<\/strong> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Zahra Forouzandeh participated in the ECAI 2020 Workshop AIPES \u2013 Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems (24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2020) in 4<sup>th<\/sup> September 2020 presenting the research work: \u201cThe Effect of Charging and Discharging Processes of Electric Vehicles and Battery Energy Storage in the Energy Management of Smart Buildings\u201d (online presentation).  Check <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/research.utwente.nl\/en\/activities\/24th-european-conference-on-artificial-intelligence-ecai-2020\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>BeNeFICE participates in I Luso-Brazilian Workshop \u2013 17th of January 2020<\/strong> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor S\u00e9rgio Ramos participated in first Luso-Brazilian workshop on the premises of School of Engineering (ISEP) of Polytechnic of Porto, namely in GECAD \u2013 Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development) and UNESP, S\u00e3o Paulo, will be travelling to the Portuguese partner to join the discussion and present their ideas on the topics of the CENERGETIC project. The scope of BENEFICE Project was presented.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-3_Workshop.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"363\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/news\/foto-3_workshop\/\" class=\"wp-image-363\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1919\" height=\"879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-4_Workshop.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"364\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/news\/foto-4_workshop\/\" class=\"wp-image-364\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>14h00 \u2013 14h30<\/strong>&nbsp;Participants registration and networking<\/li><li><strong>14h30 \u2013 14h40<\/strong>&nbsp;Opening session<ul><li>Jo\u00e3o Soares, GECAD, ISEP, Polit\u00e9cnico do Porto<\/li><li>Goreti Marreiros, GECAD, ISEP, Polit\u00e9cnico do Porto<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>14h40 \u2013 15h00<\/strong>&nbsp;CENERGETIC in a glance and first-year progress<ul><li>Joao Soares, GECAD, ISEP, Polit\u00e9cnico do Porto<\/li><li>Ruben Romero, UNESP, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>15h00 \u2013 15h20&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Overview of the application of the metaheuristics used in the optimization of electric power systems.<\/em><ul><li>Ruben Romero, UNESP, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>15h20 \u2013 16h00<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>HyDE-DF: a new evolutionary algorithm for optimization in smart grids<\/em><ul><li>Fernando Lezama, GECAD, ISEP, Polit\u00e9cnico do Porto<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>16h00 \u2013 16h30<\/strong>&nbsp;Networking and coffee break<\/li><li><strong>16h30 \u2013 16h50&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Research on electric vehicles developed at LAPSEE<\/em><ul><li>John Fredy Franco, UNESP, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>16h50 \u2013 17h10<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Distribution Network Operation and Reconfiguration in a Smart Grid Context Using Dynamic-Based EV Charging Price<\/em><ul><li>Bruno Canizes, GECAD, ISEP, Polit\u00e9cnico do Porto<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>17h10 \u2013 17h30&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Cyber Security for Smart Grids Connected to Renewable Energy<\/em><ul><li>Bruno Ferreira, Vestas Wind Systems, Portugal<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>17h30 \u2013 17h50<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Energy resource management in a building context<\/em><ul><li>S\u00e9rgio Ramos, GECAD, ISEP, Polit\u00e9cnico do Porto<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>17h50 \u2013 18h00&nbsp;<\/strong>Closing<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>IEEE PES GTD ASIA 2019 (19-23 March)<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00e9rgio Ramos and Jo\u00e3o Soares attended the IEEE PES GTD ASIA 2019 Conference presenting the recent results of BeNeFICE Project 19-23 March 2019. An oral presentation was done concerning the proposed research paper, i.e. the methodology based on the knowledge discovery process to support electricity customer characterization. It also presents a Data Mining review, based on clustering and classification techniques. In the poster session, a poster was presented concerning an introduction to the linear programming optimization (LP) method and review the main works related to the scope of Smart Buildings energy resources optimization modeled as LP, with the objective to analyze different approaches taken to meet their goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>BeNeFICE participates in 2019- DREAM-GO Workshop: Demand response approaches for real-time renewable energy integration &#8211; 16th and 17th of January 2019<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor S\u00e9rgio Ramos participated in 2019 DREAM-GO Workshop, regarding demand response approaches for real-time renewable energy integration, belonging to panel: Sustainable and intelligent buildings.  Check the full program  of the 2019 DREAM-GO Workshop days in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DREAM-GO_AGENDA_Workshop4-16_17-01-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Researchers from BeNeFICE teams visited Honda Research Institute (HRI) &#8211;  Offenbach am Main, Germany &#8211; 26th November 2018<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> \u200bThe visit has been held in Honda RI premises involving researchers from HRI and 3 researchers from GECAD: S\u00e9rgio Ramos, Jo\u00e3o Soares, and Fernando Lezama.  Subjects concerning the integration of EVs in the grid and computational intelligence for energy resource management in buildings were discussed.  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).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/news_foto-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"366\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/news\/news_foto-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-366\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/news_foto-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"367\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/news\/news_foto-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-367\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Kick-off &#8211; July 2018<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The BeNeFICE team has met on 4th July of 2018 at 14h30 (Lisbon Time) in GECAD facilities for the kick-off of the project. The team has discussed the planning details of the several activities and proposed milestones to be achieved. The budget for the Portuguese team is around 240 mil euros, from FCT funding agency. The kick-off slides can be found  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Kick-off-slides\u2013-July-2018-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-358\" style=\"width: NaNpx;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Kick-off-slides\u2013-July-2018.pdf\" alt=\"\">  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px;text-align:center\"><strong>AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>BEST POSTER AWARD<\/strong> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Association for the Development of Renewable Energy, Environment and Power Quality (EA4EPQ) to the authors of one of three best posters presented at the \u201cInternational Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICREPQ\u00b421)\u201d that has been held in the University of Almeria (Spain), from 28<sup>th<\/sup> to 30<sup>th<\/sup> of July, 2021, with the title: \u201c<em>Intelligent Resource Management in the context of a Microgrid of Smart Buildings<\/em>\u201d, and authors: S\u00e9rgio Ramos, Jo\u00e3o Soares, Zahra Forouzandeh, In\u00eas Tavares, Ant\u00f3nio Gomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-5_Best-Poster-Award-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"370\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/news\/foto-5_best-poster-award-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-370\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1988\" height=\"1385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Best-Poster-Foto-6_Award-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"371\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/news\/best-poster-foto-6_award-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-371\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sponsor-1024x101.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sponsor.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sponsor-300x30.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sponsor-768x76.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS Conference: IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2021, October 18-21, 2021 Zahra Forouzandeh attended the IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2021, presenting the research works: \u201cOptimal Contract Power and Battery Energy Storage System Capacity for Smart Buildings\u201d, (online presentation). Check here for details. Conference: EPIA 2021 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence \u2013 September 7-9, 2021 Jo\u00e3o&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/news\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/homepage.php","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/BeNeFiCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}