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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Global Energy Forecasting Competition 2012 (GEFCom2012)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on Analytics for Energy Forecasting with Applications to Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

GEFCom2012 to be financially sponsored by IEEE: IEEE Power & Energy Society has approved $18,000 to financially sponsor GEFCom2012, the funding will be used to cover awards and operational expenses. The candidates will be required to attend PESGM2013 and present the proposed methodologies to be eligible for the awards.

GEFCom2012 is ON:

The load foreasting track: http://www.kaggle.com/c/global-energy-forecasting-competition-2012-load-forecasting

The wind foreasting track: http://www.kaggle.com/c/GEF2012-wind-forecasting

Important Dates

Release Call For Participants: 5/7/2012

Announce the competition at 2012 IEEE PES General Meeting: 7/24/2012

Competition Start: 8/31/2012

Competition End: 10/31/2012

2013 PESGM Paper Due TBD

Announce Winners at 2013 IEEE PES General Meeting July 2013

Award Commitee (in alphabetical order by last name)

Dr. Shu Fan
  Monash University, Australia
David Hamilton
  Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, USA
Dr. Tao Hong
  SAS Institute, USA
Dr. Pierre Pinson
  Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Eric Wang
  South California Edison, USA
Dr. Hamidreza Zareipour
  University of Calgary, Canada
 
Advisory Commitee (in alphabetical order by last name)

Dr. ML Chan
  ML Consulting Group, USA
Dr. Rob J Hyndman
  Monash University, Australia
Dr. Wei-Jen Lee
  University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Dr. Fran Li
  The University of Tennessee, USA
Dr. Shanshan Liu
  EPRI, USA
Dr. Anil Pahwa
  Kansas State University, USA
Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour
  Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. Kumar Venayagamoorthy
  Clemson University, USA
Contact

General Chair:
 Dr. Tao Hong, SAS Institute, USA
Vice Chair (Load Forecasting):
 Dr. Shu Fan, Monash University, Australia
Vice Chair (Wind Forecasting):
 Dr. Pierre Pinson, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
 

 
Sponsored by

IEEE Working Group on Energy Forecasting

IEEE Power System Planning and Implementation Committee

IEEE Power and Energy Education Committee

WEATHERBANK, INC.

 

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