E-ENERGY

Welcome to the ACM e-Energy 2013 Conference being held in Berkeley, California! As Co-Chairs of the Technical Program Committee (TPC), we are delighted to introduce this year's very strong technical program. The program committee accepted 22 full papers selected from 76 submissions in addition to 16 posters and 2 demos. These represent a substantial and diverse body of work that showcases the rapid maturation of work in our field. This year's program includes papers ranging from building energy management to picogrids and data center energy management to false data injection in grid estimation systems to energy storage systems and electric vehicle charging.

ACM e-Energy is truly a global conference - both submitted and accepted papers, posters and demos have authors hailing from 20 countries. Interestingly, the final program has only two papers with affiliations to US institutions. We were fortunate to work with an outstanding technical program committee of 29 members from around the world that brought a diverse range of expertise to the table. Members of the PC were drawn from 11 countries on 4 continents, with substantial representation from Europe as well as the US. The hallmark of a high quality conference is a thoughtful and careful review process that provides valuable feedback to all authors, and ACM e-Energy definitely met that high bar. We are extremely grateful for the hard work, and the very thorough and insightful paper reviews, provided by TPC members.

ACM e-Energy used a two-round review process, with a first round of three reviews for each paper. Papers that did not receive a high-confidence review in the first round or received reviews with high variance were assigned additional reviews in a second round of reviewing. After the second round, we initiated online discussions on all submitted papers. The thoughtful asynchronous discussion of papers in advance of the TPC meeting allowed us to discuss 38 papers in depth during an online, day-long TPC meeting that crafted the final program.

We believe that the collective efforts of the TPC has created an extremely strong and technically vibrant program that will greatly interest and inspire all attendees while setting a high standard for subsequent editions of the conference.