F I R S T C A L L F O R P A P E R S

2. Workshop on Energy Data Management (EnDM'13@EDBT'13)

March 22, 2013 - Genoa, Italy


Workshop Website: http://endm2013.endm.org/

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Aims and Scope
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The energy sector is one of the most active application domains being forced to re-think the current practice and apply data-management
based IT solutions to provide a scalable and sustainable supply and distribution of energy. Challenges range from energy production by
seamlessly incorporating renewable energy resources over energy distribution and monitoring to controlling energy consumption.
Decisions are based on huge amounts of empirically collected data from smart meters, new energy sources (increasingly RES - renewable energy
sources such as wind, solar, hydro, thermal, etc), new distributions mechanisms (Smart Grid), and new types of consumers and devices, e.g., electric cars.

Energy is at the top of the worldwide political agenda, e.g., due to global warming concerns and recent nuclear accidents.
Ambitious goals for reductions of energy consumption and CO2 emissions have been formulated, e.g., the EU 20-20-20 goals (20% renewable
energy, 20% better energy efficiency, and 20% CO2 reduction by 2020), with much more ambitious goals set for 2030 and 2050.
This situation is reflected by increasing attention in research funding schemes such as the EU 7th Framework program as well as national programs.
A recent trend in these programs is joint calls involving both energy and IT partners. Data management is at the heart of this development,
as witnessed by the following story headlines from key players: ?The Smart Grid Data Deluge? (O?Reilly Radar); ?Big data for
the Smart Grid? (theenergycollective); ?The Coming Smart Grid Data Surge? (SmartGridNews.com).

This workshop focuses on conceptual and system architecture issues related to the management of very large-scale data sets specifically
in the context of the energy domain. The overall goal is to bridge the gap between domain experts and data management scientists on the one hand.
On the other hand, the workshop?s goal is to create awareness of this upcoming and very challenging application area. For the workshop?s research program, we are
seeking contributions that push the envelope towards novel schemes for large-scale data processing with special focus on energy data management.


Topics of Interest
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The workshop solicits contributions on data management issues related to data processing/analytics within the energy domain ranging from conceptual modeling
over theoretical foundations, system architecture and implementation to real world case studies. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Energy-specific data modeling
* Meta-data management, provenance management, life cycle management of energy data
* Large-scale data integration considering energy-specific formats and protocols
* Novel data processing architectures for coping with very large energy data sets
* Novel partitioning, caching, and replication schemes within energy IT infrastructures
* Query language design, query processing, and query optimization techniques
* Robustness aspects with regard to performance, scalability, reliability, and dependability
* Data security and data privacy when managing energy data
* Novel and domain specific data mining algorithms
* Domain-specific forecasting and prediction methods
* Systems support to manage and query forecasted data
* Support for advanced energy analytics within database systems
* Case studies outlining real world applications and application scenarios with a strong focus on production, distribution, and consumption of energy
* Challenges and vision of mid-/long-term solutions for an efficient and robust energy data management system

We welcome submissions of high-quality, original research and are particularly interested in submissions that demonstrate industrial-strength solutions from s
ystems as well as application perspectives.
We also explicitly ask for contributions describing work-in-progress with a clear vision of the overall work.
Submissions should not extend 8 pages in the ACM Proceedings style. Short papers of up to 4 pages are also welcome.

Workshop Coordinators
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* Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark (tbp@cs.aau.dk)
* Wolfgang Lehner, Dresden University of Technology, Germany (wolfgang.lehner@tu-dresden.de)

Program Committee
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TBA


Important Dates
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* Paper submissions: December 9, 2012
* Notifications: January 14, 2013
* Camera Ready version: January 21, 2013


The papers from the workshop will be published in a joint ACM Proceedings volume covering all EDBT 2013 workshops.

A few selected best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for a special issue of a leading database journal