A new scale of urbanization, digitization, and industrialization has been driving the change of our world more profoundly than ever before. The question of energy — and the way we use it — is at the center of these rapid changes. Going “energy-efficient” then becomes a major component of the missions for manufacturers and service providers to stay globally competitive. With the recent advancement of sensor informatics, the Internet-of-Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI), this mission can be better achieved through modeling, analysis, real-time monitoring and control of production service systems. The idea of “intelligent sustainable energy solutions” applies to many application areas, including but not limited to manufacturing, transportation, building management, and networking, etc. The goal of this special issue is to explore scientific models, methods and technologies with both solid theoretical development and practical importance to reshape industries, transform cities and enrich lives. The central theme of the proposed special issue is on Intelligent Energy Solutions to Sustainable where information technology based modeling, analysis, control and optimization are the focus areas, and broad aspects and issues will be well discussed.
Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to the following:
• Smart Energy-aware product design
• Modeling/analysis of intelligent manufacturing power consumption
• Smart Sensor based monitoring, data analytics, and control and optimization for energy efficient manufacturing processes and systems
• Sustainable energy management of production and service: planning, scheduling and control
• Applications of artificial intelligence, big data and IoT for intelligent sustainable manufacturing and service
• Intelligent Energy solutions to green supply chain
• Intelligent techniques for real-time energy resource management
• Smart control in smart grid and energy management in industries
• IoT based energy strategies for building management
• Big data enabled intelligent operation for sustainable building
• Sustainable buildings for urban sustainability and urban intelligence
• Operations of alternative energy products
• Smart energy solutions to intelligent transportation systems
• Energy-efficient cloud computing systems and data centers
• Energy-efficient fog computing devices and systems for product and service automation
• Blockchain for Sustainability

Important Dates
• Initial paper submission deadline: December 31st, 2019
• First round authors notification: February 29th, 2020
• Invited revisions deadline: May 15th, 2020
• Second round authors notification: July 15th, 2020
• Final revision deadline: September 30th, 2020
• Final authors notification: October 30th, 2020
• Projected publication: Autumn 2020

Guest Editors
Dr. Xiaohui Yuan
Dr. Andino Maseleno (Lead Guest Editor)
Dr. Valentina E. Balas