{"id":43,"date":"2022-08-05T10:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ci4energy\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:11:09","slug":"activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ci4energy\/activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">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<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Competition on Electric Energy Consumption Forecast Adopting Multi-criteria Performance Metrics, IEEE PES General Meeting 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Workshop AI for Sustainable Energy, IEEE CAI 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Energy, Transport and Environmental Sustainability (IEEE CIETES), IEEE SSCI 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Special session CEC 2025 \u2013 Computational Intelligence for Control and Optimization of Complex Energy Systems<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Keynote \u201cA practical example of an industrial campus energy management system: real world challenges and success stories\u201d (Tobias Rodemann), IEEE SSCI 2025<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-larger-font-size\"><strong>2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Optimal PV System Allocation, IEEE CEC (WCCI 2024, Yokohama, Japan) and GECCO 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/ttp-gecco2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Travelling Thief Problem Competition, GECCO 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Special session WCCI\/CEC 2024 \u2013 Computational Intelligence for Control and Optimization of Complex Energy Systems, Yokohama, Japan, July 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Special session WCCI 2024 \u2013 Computational Intelligence Techniques for Observable Smart Grid and Sustainable Energy Systems, Yokohama, Japan, July 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/electrimacs2024.uji.es\/special_sessions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Special session Electrimacs 2024 \u2013 Intelligent Approaches for Energy Communities and Flexibility Applications<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ERM-competitions\/cai-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Workshop AI for Energy 2024 at IEEE CAI 2024, Singapore, June 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Workshop \u201cGreen Hydrogen Horizon: Navigating the Future of Sustainable Energy\u201d (Kartik Pandya, organizer)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Workshop \u201cHarvesting the Sun \u2013 Exploring Solar Energy and Energy Storage, Innovations and Applications\u201d (Kartik Pandya, chair)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aimday.se\/math-ai-energy-monash-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Workshop \u201cMaths, AI and Energy meet Industry\u201d, Monash University, Australia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Tutorial WCCI 2024 \u2013 Trust in Optimization Algorithms: The End User Perspective (Tobias Rodemann)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Tutorial \u2013 Genetic Improvement: Taking real-world source code and improving it using computational search methods (A. Brownlee, S. Haraldsson, J. R. Woodward, M. Wagner)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Special Issue Applied Energy: Multi-Vector Local Energy Communities<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">I Workshop Internacional \u201cHardware y herramientas computacionales aplicadas a la gesti\u00f3n\/optimizaci\u00f3n de redes y microrredes con energ\u00edas renovables\u201d, RIBIERSE \/ GECAD &amp; ISEP<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 class=\"has-larger-font-size\"><strong>2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ERM-competitions\/2023-2\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ERM-competitions\/2023-2\/\">Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Operation and Planning Applications, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Chicago, USA, July 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ERM-competitions\/2023-2\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ERM-competitions\/2023-2\/\">Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Operation and Planning Applications, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ERM-competitions\/ss2023\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ERM-competitions\/ss2023\/\">Special session CEC \u2013 Evolutionary Algorithms for Complex Optimization in the Energy Domain, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Chicago, USA, July 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ERM-competitions\/ssci2023\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ERM-competitions\/ssci2023\/\">Special session on Computational Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems (CIPES), Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, 5-8 December 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cai.ieee.org\/2023\/ai-for-energy\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cai.ieee.org\/2023\/ai-for-energy\">Organization of Vertical in Energy @CAI 2023, California, June 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/journal\/applied-energy\/about\/call-for-papers#multi-vector-local-energy-communities)\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/journal\/applied-energy\/about\/call-for-papers#multi-vector-local-energy-communities)\">Special Issue Applied Energy (IF 11.2): Multi-Vector Energy Communities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Invited as panelist for \u2018Machine Learning and Modern Heuristic Optimization for Planning and Operation of Active Distribution Networks\u2019 session at IEEE PES general meeting, July 2023 (Wenlei Bai)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Workshop about AI and Energy applications in JUNIA University &#8211; Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Lille, France, between the 27<sup>th <\/sup>of April 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2023\/evoapps-accepted-papers\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2023\/evoapps-accepted-papers\/\">EvoStar long talk: An Evolutionary Approach for Scheduling a Fleet of Shared Electric Vehicles (Steffen Limmer)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Invited as panelist for \u2018The synergy of multi-agent systems and machine learning in power system applications\u2019 session at IEEE PES general meeting, July 2023. (Tiago Pinto)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">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)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Workshop 16-17 November in Brazil of Computational Intelligence for Energy Domain by Fernando Lezama: \u201cM\u00e9todos de Pesquisa N\u00e3o Exactos com Aplica\u00e7\u00f5es em Sistemas de Energia\u201d &#8211; 4 hours, 16 e 17 November 2023<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Workshop UNESP-ISEP November &#8220;Intelig\u00eancia Artificial e Otimiza\u00e7\u00e3o Aplicadas a Recursos Energ\u00e9ticos Distribu\u00eddos: Pesquisas da UNESP e ISEP\u201d (disseminated in Linkedin)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 class=\"has-larger-font-size\"><strong>2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ERM-competitions\/ss2022\/\">Special Session CEC SS-20 Evolutionary Algorithms for Complex Optimization in the Energy Domain at WCCI 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ERM-competitions\/2022-2\/\">Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Risk-based Energy Scheduling, GECCO 2022 and WCCI 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/processes\/special_issues\/artificial_energy\">Special issue \u201cSpecial Issue &#8220;Application of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining in Energy System\u201d, MDPI Journal, Processes<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/energies\/special_issues\/Energy_Transition_EV_Markets\">Special Issue &#8220;Energy Transition: Decentralization, Electric Vehicles, and Local Energy Markets\u201c, MDPI, Energies journal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/CENERGETIC\/workshops\/\">Workshop \u201cOperation of Distribution Systems with High Participation of Distributed Energy Resources\u201d, Online, 11 February 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/record\/6587279\">Workshop &#8220;Artificial Intelligence Techniques for the Optimization of Electric Power Distribution Systems\u201d, 5 May 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Course In Applied Optimization (Dr. Kartik Pandya), Chandubhai S. Patel Institute of Technology-Changa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/electrimacs2022.sciencesconf.org\/resource\/page\/id\/30\">Special Session 10 (SS10): Title: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for smart grids and power systems, ELECTRIMACS, 16-19 May 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ropec.org\/artificial-intelligence-in-electrical-systems\/\">Special Session: Artificial Intelligence in Electrical Systems of the 2022 IEEE Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing ROPEC 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/energies\/special_issues\/complex_energy_systems\">Special Issue Optimization of Complex Energy Systems, MDPI Energies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/l2ep.univ-lille.fr\/seminaire-sustainable-development-applications-joao-soares-24-nov-2021\/\">Talk \u201cApplications of computational intelligence towards a more sustainable smart power system\u201d, 24 november 2021.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2021<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Special session CEC-44 \u2013 Evolutionary Algorithms for Complex Optimization in the Energy Domain, IEEE CEC 2021<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>Special Issue \u201cComputational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid Optimization\u201d, MDPI Energies journal<\/p>\n<p>Special Issue on \u201cTechnical Operations Research\u201d, Optimization and Engineering journal (Ulf Lorenz)<\/p>\n<p>Workshop on the operation of modern distribution systems: challenges, proposals, and tools, S\u00e3o Paulo State University, with 40 participants, 19 and 26 September and 3 October 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ci4energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ci4energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ci4energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ci4energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ci4energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ci4energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ci4energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt\/ci4energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}