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<br><br> The 8th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-18)
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<br><br> Porto, Portugal
<br><br> May 8-11, 2018
<br><br> Conference Website: <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18/</a>
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<br><br>Important Dates
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<br><br>- Workshops Proposals Due: November 30, 2017
<br><br>- Paper Submission Due: December 15, 2017
<br><br>- Acceptance Notification: February 5, 2018
<br><br>- Camera-Ready Submission: March 5, 2018
<br><br>The goal of the SEIT-17 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in sustainable energy information technology.
<br><br>All SEIT 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on <a href="http://www.Elsevier.com">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com">www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com">www.scopus.com</a>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index <a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/.">http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/.</a> The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (<a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</a>). Selected papers will be invited for publication in an international journal.
<br><br>SEIT 2018 will be held in Porto, Portugal. Porto is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. Porto is also called the Invicta because during the 19th century Portuguese civil war, the city withstood a siege of over a year.The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a population of 2.1 million in an area of 389 km2 (150 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a gamma- level global city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, the only Portuguese city besides Lisbon to be recognised as a global city.
<br><br>Located along the Douro river estuary in Northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and its historical core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. The western part of its urban area extends to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. One of Portugal's internationally famous exports, port wine, is named after Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport and export of the fortified wine. In 2014 and 2017, Porto was elected The Best European Destination by the Best European Destinations Agency.
<br><br>SEIT-2018 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT, <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/).">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/).</a>
<br><br>Conference Main Topics:
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<br><br>- Advanced Techniques for Energy Applications
<br><br>- Energy Efficiency
<br><br>- Energy Policy
<br><br>- Environmental
<br><br>- Green Sustainability
<br><br>- Power Quality, Power Electronics and Electric Machines
<br><br>- Power Systems
<br><br>- Renewable Energies
<br><br>- Sensing & Monitoring
<br><br>- Smart Systems
<br><br>Committees
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<br><br>General Chair
<br><br> Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada
<br><br>Program Chairs
<br><br> Álvaro Henrique Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal
<br><br> Jesús Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
<br><br> Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium
<br><br>Local Chair
<br><br> Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal
<br><br> João C. P. Faria, University of Porto, Portugal
<br><br>Workshops Chairs
<br><br> Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China
<br><br> Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
<br><br>Advisory Committee
<br><br> Bilal A. Akash, Dhofar University, Oman
<br><br> Antonio J. Conejo, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
<br><br> Derek J Croome, University of Reading, UK
<br><br> Geert Deconinck, KU Leuven, Belgium
<br><br> Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo, Canada
<br><br> Saffa Riffat, University of Nottingham, UK
<br><br> Ali Sayigh,World Renewable Energy Congress / Network
<br><br>Publicity Chairs
<br><br> Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium
<br><br> Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Guelma University, Algeria
<br><br> Ilan Stern, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
<br><br>Technical Program Committee
<br><br> <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18/#programCommittees">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18/#programCommittees</a>
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