Call for Papers: International Workshop on Rising ICT Solutions for Smart Grids as Multi-energy Systems (ICT4SMARTGRID 2026)

Call for Papers of the 7th edition of the International Workshop on Rising ICT Solutions for Smart Grids as Multi-energy Systems (ICT4SMARTGRID 2026).
The workshop is held as part of the IEEE Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC), which will take place from the 7th to the 10th of July in Madrid (Spain).

Among the organizers Alessandro Aliberti, Edoardo Patti, Valentino Peluso, Sara Vinco, of the DAUIN.

Deadline: 15 April 2026

Topics
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. AI, Data and Knowledge-Driven Intelligence for Smart Energy Systems

• New trends of Artificial Intelligence for Smart Grids
• Deep learning models for smart grid operation
• Generative models for grid planning, management, and operation
• Large Language Models (LLMs) for enhancing smart grids
• Data analytics and machine learning for demand and load forecasting
• Intelligent human-in-the-loop approaches and human–machine interaction
• Semantic web and ontologies for knowledge representation and standardization
• Novel models for renewable energy simulation

• Internet-of-Things architectures for energy management (from edge to cloud)
• Architectures for energy big data management’
• Zero-trust architectures for energy IoT ecosystems
• HPC and quantum computing for smart grid optimization and anoysis
• Multi-energy systems integration

• Digital twin for energy transition
• Simulations and co-simulations techniques (e.g., real-time constraints, hardware-in-the-loop)
• Agent-based simulations of smart grids
• Multi-modelling simulations of smart grids

• Cybersecurity for smart grid operations
• Cyber-resilient architectures for smart grids and energy IoT
• Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies for trustworthy Energy systems