Flexibility in electricity demand and supply is used to address challenges in markets, grid congestion, reducing CO2 emissions, etc. The amount of flexibility rapidly increases due to the electrification of transport and heat. Many of the new devices introduced by the electrification have a communication interface and implement a flexibility interface. To efficiently make use of this flexibility, it needs to be aggregated and/or coordinated. This requires advances in modeling of flexibility, distributed optimization of flexibility, computational-aware flexibility markets, and online optimization of flexibility. The use of flexibility itself introduces new challenges related to privacy, cybersecurity, and robustness.

We invite papers that address computational challenges related to flexibility. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Mathematical modeling of flexibility: (dis)aggregation of flexibility, quantifying flexibility, prediction of flexibility, generation of flexibility data;
- Communication of flexibility: flexibility protocols and standardization, privacy preserving communication of flexibility, robustness of ICT systems for flexibility, cybersecurity of demand-side management;
- Algorithms for using flexibility: algorithms for flexibility coordination, distributed optimization, performance guarantees of algorithms, computational efficiency, online algorithms, learning-augmented algorithms;
- Computational aspects of flexibility-markets: computation-aware flexibility market design, computational efficiency, algorithms for computing equilibria.

Submission:

All submissions must be at most 6 pages (including references, figures, and appendices), formatted in 9-point ACM double-column format. Papers should present original work, not published, accepted or under review for any other publication. Submissions are made to HotCRP.

Accepted papers will appear in ACM digital library.

Paper Registration and Submission: March 31, 2025 (AOE)
Website: https://sites.google.com/utwente.nl/caef2025