SCOPE
The Special Session addresses the heterogeneity in system design, supporting a better design of the next-generation power grids and their digital parts.
Papers on any of the following or related topics can be submitted to the special session:
· Design and implementations of open communication protocols for low-power smart devices and intelligent automation services.
· Grid management via intelligent information processing and communication systems.
· Architectures and hardware designs of intelligent systems.
· Low-power smart devices integration with the electrical power grid systems.
· Design methodology and automation for smart grid systems.
· Multi-objective optimization and co-design techniques for multi-agent systems.
· Distributed intelligent information collection, supervision and control systems.
· Modeling and specification methodologies for smart grids systems.
· Security and privacy strategies for smart grid networks.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts to www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsd2015. Should an unexpected web access problem be encountered, please contact the Program Chair by email (dsd2015@easychair.org).
Each manuscript should include the complete paper text, all illustrations, and references. The manuscript should conform to the IEEE format: single-spaced, double column, US letter page size, 10-point size Times Roman font, up to 8 pages. In order to conduct a blind review, no indication of the authors' names should appear in the manuscript, references included.

CPS, Conference Publishing Services, publishes the (ISI indexed) DSD Proceedings, available worldwide through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in a special issue of the ISI indexed "Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design" Elsevier journal.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submission: March 29, 2015
Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2015
Camera ready papers: June 14, 2015

SDSG SESSION CHAIRS
Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen
Aarhus University, Denmark
E-mail: rhj@eng.au.dk

Davide Quaglia
University of Verona, Italy
E-mail: davide.quaglia@univr.it

Emad Samuel Malki Ebeid
Aarhus University, Denmark
E-mail: esme@eng.au.dk

SDSG PROGRAM COMMITTEE
E. Tronci, (U Roma, IT)
P. Gorm Larsen (Aarhus U, DK)
L. Vigano (King’s College, UK)
G. Dán (KTH, SE)
H. Madsen (DTU, DK)
R. Berthier (U Illinois, USA)
R. Bobba (Oregon State U, USA)
M. Prodanovic (IMDEA, ES)
M. Kolhe (U Agder, NO)
Q. Zhang (Aarhus U, DK)
J. Medina (U Cantabria, ES)
B. N. Jørgensen(U Southern Denmark, DK)
A. Pegatoquet (U Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR)
A. Farinelli (U Verona, IT)
M. Afsharchi (U Zanjan, IR)