Activities

2025

Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: 2025 Edition of the Risk-based Energy Scheduling, IEEE SSCI 2025, IEEE CEC 2025 and GECCO 2025

Competition on Electric Energy Consumption Forecast Adopting Multi-criteria Performance Metrics, IEEE PES General Meeting 2025

Workshop AI for Sustainable Energy, IEEE CAI 2025

IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Energy, Transport and Environmental Sustainability (IEEE CIETES), IEEE SSCI 2025

Special session CEC 2025 – Computational Intelligence for Control and Optimization of Complex Energy Systems

Keynote “A practical example of an industrial campus energy management system: real world challenges and success stories” (Tobias Rodemann), IEEE SSCI 2025


2024

Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Optimal PV System Allocation, IEEE CEC (WCCI 2024, Yokohama, Japan) and GECCO 2024

The Travelling Thief Problem Competition, GECCO 2024

Special session WCCI/CEC 2024 – Computational Intelligence for Control and Optimization of Complex Energy Systems, Yokohama, Japan, July 2024

Special session WCCI 2024 – Computational Intelligence Techniques for Observable Smart Grid and Sustainable Energy Systems, Yokohama, Japan, July 2024

Special session Electrimacs 2024 – Intelligent Approaches for Energy Communities and Flexibility Applications

Workshop AI for Energy 2024 at IEEE CAI 2024, Singapore, June 2024

Workshop “Green Hydrogen Horizon: Navigating the Future of Sustainable Energy” (Kartik Pandya, organizer)

Workshop “Harvesting the Sun – Exploring Solar Energy and Energy Storage, Innovations and Applications” (Kartik Pandya, chair)

Workshop “Maths, AI and Energy meet Industry”, Monash University, Australia

Tutorial WCCI 2024 – Trust in Optimization Algorithms: The End User Perspective (Tobias Rodemann)

Tutorial – Genetic Improvement: Taking real-world source code and improving it using computational search methods (A. Brownlee, S. Haraldsson, J. R. Woodward, M. Wagner)

Special Issue Applied Energy: Multi-Vector Local Energy Communities

I Workshop Internacional “Hardware y herramientas computacionales aplicadas a la gestión/optimización de redes y microrredes con energías renovables”, RIBIERSE / GECAD & ISEP


2023

Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Operation and Planning Applications, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Chicago, USA, July 2023

Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Operation and Planning Applications, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2023

Special session CEC – Evolutionary Algorithms for Complex Optimization in the Energy Domain, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Chicago, USA, July 2023

Special session on Computational Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems (CIPES), Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, 5-8 December 2023

Organization of Vertical in Energy @CAI 2023, California, June 2023

Special Issue Applied Energy (IF 11.2): Multi-Vector Energy Communities

Invited as panelist for ‘Machine Learning and Modern Heuristic Optimization for Planning and Operation of Active Distribution Networks’ session at IEEE PES general meeting, July 2023 (Wenlei Bai)

Workshop about AI and Energy applications in JUNIA University – Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Lille, France, between the 27th of April 2023.

EvoStar long talk: An Evolutionary Approach for Scheduling a Fleet of Shared Electric Vehicles (Steffen Limmer)

Invited as panelist for ‘The synergy of multi-agent systems and machine learning in power system applications’ session at IEEE PES general meeting, July 2023. (Tiago Pinto)

Participated in the competition and won the 3rd place on 2023 IEEE CEC/GECCO Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Operation and Planning Applications (Wenlei Bai)

Workshop 16-17 November in Brazil of Computational Intelligence for Energy Domain by Fernando Lezama: “Métodos de Pesquisa Não Exactos com Aplicações em Sistemas de Energia” – 4 hours, 16 e 17 November 2023

Workshop UNESP-ISEP November “Inteligência Artificial e Otimização Aplicadas a Recursos Energéticos Distribuídos: Pesquisas da UNESP e ISEP” (disseminated in Linkedin)


2022

Special Session CEC SS-20 Evolutionary Algorithms for Complex Optimization in the Energy Domain at WCCI 2022.

Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Risk-based Energy Scheduling, GECCO 2022 and WCCI 2022.

Special issue “Special Issue “Application of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining in Energy System”, MDPI Journal, Processes

Special Issue “Energy Transition: Decentralization, Electric Vehicles, and Local Energy Markets“, MDPI, Energies journal.

Workshop “Operation of Distribution Systems with High Participation of Distributed Energy Resources”, Online, 11 February 2022.

Workshop “Artificial Intelligence Techniques for the Optimization of Electric Power Distribution Systems”, 5 May 2022.

Course In Applied Optimization (Dr. Kartik Pandya), Chandubhai S. Patel Institute of Technology-Changa.

Special Session 10 (SS10): Title: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for smart grids and power systems, ELECTRIMACS, 16-19 May 2022.

Special Session: Artificial Intelligence in Electrical Systems of the 2022 IEEE Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing ROPEC 2022.

Special Issue Optimization of Complex Energy Systems, MDPI Energies.

Talk “Applications of computational intelligence towards a more sustainable smart power system”, 24 november 2021.


2021

Special session CEC-44 – Evolutionary Algorithms for Complex Optimization in the Energy Domain, IEEE CEC 2021

Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Smart Grid Applications, organized jointly at IEEE CEC 2021, IEEE PES General Meeting 2021 and GECCO 2021

Special Issue “Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid Optimization”, MDPI Energies journal

Special Issue on “Technical Operations Research”, Optimization and Engineering journal (Ulf Lorenz)

Workshop on the operation of modern distribution systems: challenges, proposals, and tools, São Paulo State University, with 40 participants, 19 and 26 September and 3 October 2021